1.23 update

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From the day since I joined Nia's group, I have been working on modifying, adding lines to my character and have tried to learn the theme and the function of my character. When I added lines, I decided to combine the character "son" in night woman with the "son" from the other story. To portray how do tragedies affect children's lives, both stories expand their views on the theme of family.

Admittedly, night woman and our performance focus mainly on a single mother's issues, but son in our performance has to make a conclusion to this story, so I want to bring this story to the level of the whole family. A poem from the other story which encourages people in chaos and the voice of the new generation of Haiti are both points that I express to audiences.

I have collaborated with my group members for three weeks. I have accepted their voices on my character based on their recognition to the story originally created by them. Since I have the least time to practice, and I have a conversation only with one group member so I decided to practice with her mostly.

Things I need to improve are how to improve my performance. "son" is a special character in this performance. He is out of the combat between Devil and Angel, so he needs to have a strong personal feature standing out from the performance. Blockings become the biggest problem. I tried to learn from videos of children's monologue in order to control my facial expressions. Undoubtedly, an impressive ending would probably lead people's perspective to a performance.

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