250-300 progress report

Linda Li
Ms. Guarino
IB Theater HL
23 January 2019
Report on Collaborative Project
So far, we are close to the final edition of our collaborative project, we have made a couple changed to out script and are trying to act out our whole play. There are five major changes on our project. First, we divided the whole play into 6 scenes by splitting up and adding new scenes. To fully explain the first change, which is about how we rearranged the whole plot of the play. We separate the bar scene in the old version,which was the fifth scene, into two. Scene five is when the center stage light does on, Natalie and Steve have already been on stage, and Steve will sit in front of the bar and Natalie will stand behind the bar. And at the end of this scene Steve would convince Natalie to leave work to go to a diner. For scene 6, it will be in a diner where Marcus and Sara have already sit in there and Natalie and Steve will walk into the diner. In addition, Steve will be drunk the whole time. Second, we added two monologues for Sara at the end of scene 2 and scene 6. In scene two, after Sara made a call to Marcus, she doubted about herself about whether everything she was thinking and doing were alright and realistic. After 8 seconds of silence, she would say “Oh g-d. What am I doing? What am I doing? I - I have Steve. Or had him. Oh g-d I’m losing Steve. What am I doing? What am I doing? I just got married (just married and she ruined everything)(pause) Well, I still have Marcus… (shakes head). Who am I kidding? Marcus will never really love me. He has his wife. (Angry, but weak and crying kind of) He’ll never really love me. Oh g-d, what am I doing?” Clearly, she knew that Marcus is not realistic for her. The second monologue would be at the end of the scene 6, which is the end of the whole play. Sara would be sort of leading the audience going through her internal thought about her desire of Marcus and how she finally realized after that Steve is her true mate and she ignored what is really there and important for her, a family. Her script would be “Ok… ok… I finally got it… love is just something that you would gain or gain enough of it. When I look at Marcus I saw youthfulness and passion and my heart beat rhymes with him. But, he is ultimately a perfect shadow that is never real. When I look at Steve, I have already forgotten the sweetness of us in the past. Now only the smell of alcohol fills up the atmosphere. Even though the romance between us has faded, Steve is what I actually have. He used be right there lying in my arms and we’ve loved, we’ve kissed, we’ve laughed, we’ve cried. Sorry, sorry… that I… missed you… I just… I just… am so stupid and foolish… won’t you come back to me… won’t you come back to me… for the past time… please… please… don’t… leave me alone with a broken heart… please…. don’t”. Third, initially we had Marcus tempting Sara to betray or Steve, finally we changed the character setting and the plot to Sara tempting Marcus to cheat on Natalie. This is a major plot change that would affect the direction of the whole play.

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