Ruined

The unifying vision of the play ruined would be finding hope in war. We can see how ugly people look when war is happening and how they fight for the interests, war has no positive influences but hurting the innocent people. People who live in the worst situations like those women who get raped and killed are still finding ways to keep alive, they might have to get unfair treatment but their never give up a chance to keep their life longer. I am going to use these ideas to create a sense at a jungle in Nepal. By using the color red as bloody, gray as ruined, and blue as hope for the costumes designs. For the music I will use soft Jamaican music to get a similar idea of African tradition music. And the last, lighting, nature lights is the most important thing, I might add some candle to create a poor feeling and also because of the moon light and the candle might not be bright enough for the play

I think that the best place to stage this play would in Nepal. I think that is something very prevalent in Nepal because of the civil war movement that the people there went through. I think that the people of the city would most appreciate it and be able to relate to the story. I would like it to be outdoor and inside of the jungle. In this way, the audiences could feel more real than just sitting down in the theater. And most important is that I like my play involve with natural sounds and lights. It might have to perform in the rain or any kind of weather that the god decides to give us.

The idea of scenic design, as we set up the place in Nepal, I’m going to create a broke little wooden house with only two rooms, one for girls and one for mamma.  The rooms are small and only have a huge bad for girls. A bar made by wood and has few different types of alcohol and most of them are soda in the freezer.  Everything they use will be dirty and broke, nothing is fancy for sure. Girls will be dancing at the dance floor or sitting down the chair flirts with the soldiers and revolts.  It will be surrounding by tree and some of them are fall down and some of them are cut off. The house will only have little light balls and probably a radio for them to listen to the news. 

About the sound, for the background music, I would like to use the tradition African instruments like drums and guitars from the begging. By playing it really soft and it could sounds that mixture of African music and Jazz. It could always be join with human sounds, especially when the girl sings in the play. Because my play is outside, the natural sounds will involve, animals sounds, gun fire, people scream...etc. It will get darker and darker when the story gets serious. When the climax comes, i would put loud drums and make the scene sounds nervous and dangerous. 

Move on to costumes, I want to create a feeling that they got all the clothe by donated. They will dress a sexy because they are doing sex business. All the girls have to dress gray which means they are all ruined.  Salima’s clothes would get baggy and looser because she is trying to hide her pregnancy such as baggy t-shirts and baby doll dresses. Sophie would be more covered up than the rest of the girls, I think this could symbolize her obvious modesty and meekness. The soldiers and rebels people will wear red and green. Red presents bloody and green because they always fight in the jungles. 

Lighting, mainly by using natural light as much as we can, from the morning to afternoon we can stay with natural light. Sun-raise and sunset will be important can describe different mood in the story. But at night, we might need some candles and using dark lights to help the audience to see the stage and be able to watch the play. It will be kind of looks like night club or bar. All those setting is also showing that they lives in poor. But when the part where Salima is bleeding and showing on the stage i would use red light and make the scene very powerful and bloody. Also, in the end of the play when mamma and Christian dance together i would use spot light force on them and fade away while the story finishes. 

I would want the play to have a very low key feel, I would want the audience to be focused on the story rather than the costumes or set design.

Work Cited

Videos:

marlenepimpim. "cecile verny und quartet - the bitter and the sweet" Project Report. YouTube, 7 Dec 2006, Web. 10 May 2011.


zulutron. "africa calling - african jazz." Project Report. YouTube, 28 Feb. 2008, Web, 10 May 2011.


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