QUESTIONS

1. What is the stimulus you are using? Describe it.

The song titled is “Just a Dream” by Carrie Underwood. When we hear this song, we want to show things that happen when your job is to be a military. This song is about a women who lost her husband, because he went to the military

2. What are/were some of your initial ideas based on the stimulus?A person from a family went to war, we wanted to join this with love, as for example a couple.

3. What ideas and themes are you exploring in your performance?With the first thing we explored were the lights on stage. But we also wanted to focus on the relationship that our characters had, so we also wrote lines that came to mind and we did with a small interpretation


4. What will your plot be? (beginning, middle, end -- scenes, transitions)

It all starts when Ellie enters the room and sees her sister Sophia packing. Ellie doesn't want her sister to leave but Sophia wants to follow in her mother's footsteps and go to the military center. When the sisters just argued, Ellie goes to bed.  Ellie has a dream. In the dream Shopia enters the military school, here Shopia has a war and dies. The final part Ellie hits a scream and wakes up, Sophia enters the room and tells him that everything is fine.

5. Who are the characters and how will they grow, change, or stay the same?

• Sophia(Caroline). Older sister, she is leaving
• Ellie#1(Helena), younger sister, she is worried because her sister is leaving.
• Ellie#2(Maddie), dream version of Ellie#1, she is scared.

6. How might you use theater tech to enhance the story?

We will use sounds and lights, such as when Ellie falls asleep and has the dream

7. Who is the intended audience and what is the desired effect you want your piece to have on the audience? (reaction, meaning)

Older people, because we are talking about things that happen when people work as a military, but some teenagers can also understand

8. What are the important moments of tension and emotion?

The moment with more tension appears in the dream when the shots are heard and Ellie wakes up

9. Why is this piece important/meaningful to you personally?

It seems a little to what I am living here, I am far from my family. but I can at least see them once every three months. I can't imagine if I have to be there all year without seeing them.

10. What influences are you drawing on or engaging with in your work so far? (In class, for example, someone mentioned doing something similar to Livi's solo performance and someone else references viewpoints and perhaps Moment Work)

Put moments that we learned in class