Artistic Intention

Today, we were working on our posts, and we started talking about our production as a whole. Then, we touched the topic of the artistic intentions and our intentions through our productions. We discussed that our intentions were to let more people understand the truth about the stereotypes that the Chinese local students have on international students. Delivering this message would be our intention for the product. The artistic intention is that we would like to deliver this message through to the audience with the involvement of the theatrical elements, such as, lighting, sound, etc. In this aspect, we would be able to let our students understand our

Rehearsals- Opening Scenes and Improvising the First Scenes

In the recent rehearsals, we tried to create the opening scenes where all of the students were equally distributed over the stage. The opening scene would be surrounding the topic of the local student's stereotypical thought on international students. The statements we have come up with earlier would be implemented in the scenes. Every one of us are going to have different statements, and the statements are going to be spoken in a "random" order so it would look like a discussion but also will construct "balanced" focus across the stage. The statements will be implemented in a way that the international student that are placed with these stereotypes is known as "she". This would create a sense of mystery in the play. This idea originally comes from an existing theatre production that also uses a "she" throughout the production. We practised the opening scene multiple times and implemented all 8 statements in the opening scenes. 

These are the images of the opening scenes: 

Later, after we finished the opening scene, we decided to chose two statements to create the first scenes. The statements we chose to use were the "use of devices" and the "homework stereotype". For these scenes, we started to implement statements in the scenes, including the local students and international students. This is still an on going improvisation that we are still working on at the moment.