Oral first draft

My Love My Love or The Peasant Girl is a love story between a peasant girl called Ti Moune who is saved by four gods and a wealthy man called Daniel Beauxhommethey are Agwe, Asaka, . Ti Moune saves Daniel’s life from a car accident, and she falls in love with him. However, it turned into a tragedy at the end of the story because there is a character called Anderea who is a wealthy girl who knew Daniel since he was in France. Anderea shows in front of Daniel’s face while he and Ti Moune start to livetogether, but Daniel decided to leave Ti Moune alone and get married with Anderea. Finally, Ti Moune dies in front of Daniel’s house, and he asks people throw her body in the garbage can. I'm so interested in how the Gods influence Ti Moune and the relationship between Daniel, Ti Moune and Andrea.

Our group’s idea is based on Ti Moune’s imaginary and realistic world, so we have Dr. Goodman and Andrea who are Daniel and Andrea in the book, and in our scene they represent the realistic world, and four gods represent the imagination of Ti Moune. In our script, Dr. Goodman saves Ti Moune’s life while she lost her memories in a car accident and she thinks that Dr. Goodman and she are meant to be together. However, he has a fiance in france which is Andrea. We also have four Gods in one character to represent the imagination who has a mutipul personalities disorder, so our story is telling by these two worlds.

When we are staging this short play, we used a coach in the center stage for Ti Moune. Then we put scene which happen in the real world on stage right and imagination on the other side. We used short black out for the scene changing from the realistic to the imagination. I think the most chanllenge part of our performance is the Gods character becuase one actor has to play four differnt character in the same time. I have to say that our grop mate did a great job on developing the Gods character. We also accoplish our goal of analysis more about Ti Moune’s imaginary worlds and real world by showing the different reaction. For example, when the god told Ti Moune “But what? There is no debate they must be together”(G.Er), but when Ti Moune tells Dr. Goodman that she loves him, he decided to leave. All these difference break her dream in pieces.

I played Dr.Goodman in our  group, and I think I did well on this character. At the begining, I was just a normal doctor who cares about his patients, but as Ti Moune showed her love to me I started to adopt myself and started liking her. However, when Andrea showed up, I left Ti Moune alone and go away with Andrea. I didn’t know how to build this charccter because it is so different from the book, but I figuared it out because I think as a doctor I should be more caring my patients, and this caring can cause the misunderstanding. This is also why I act to like Ti Moune at one point.

I like what we did in the class because everyone worked hard on the characters, staging and costumes. There is one thing we can improve is that we can use more light effect to make each god character more visible. I truly enjoyed this project because when we are staging our own work we understand more characters and the deep meaning of the literary work.