The story of two different wolrds

The novel that our group adapted to a new version is "my love, my love" by Rosa Guy. The novel is basically about a tragic destiny of peasant girl "Ti moune" and her star crossed love story. Ti moune's tragedy begins when she finds out Daniel crushed in his car in the forest. She falls in love with the rich boy Daniel at first sight which she is not supposed to desire. At the beginning, she only cares about the boy's well being. However at the last part, her desire toward Daniel becomes too huge so that she couldn't handle. Although she has been grown up in the peasant village, since she was adopted by her parents, there are a lot of part that shows Ti moune's difference from other peasants. She always had the desire and curiosity about outside world of the peasant village and the book emphasized that desire and curiosity as the cause of her death. But also, her death can be interpreted as a true freedom because of the butterflies that come out from her body after she dies.

In the scene that our group reinterpreted, we emphasized the contrast between rich and poor. Our group didn't agree with how the book described that her death was her fault. So, we decided to make the rich as villain. In the book, Daniel actually loves Ti moune but he had no choice but to chooses his fiance "Andrea" because he is in the situation that he can't change or do anything with. That characteristic reduces Daniel's fault for Ti moune's death in the book, so we gave a slight change to Daniel's characteristic. We changed his character from indecisive young man to womanizer playboy so that we can show how the rich ruins the peasants which also represents the strong and the weak. To show the extreme contrast we used music as the biggest source. Fortunately, since our group had amazing musicians, we used ukulele for the peasant's side and piano for the rich side.

To act a Daniel, my key point was showing the different attitude between in front of Ti moune and his father Gabriel. I acted very gentle and sweet to Ti moune but I showed Daniel's real personality which is a playboy who never thinks about girls seriously in the conversation with father.

 

For the staging, we put couch and piano on the left side of the stage which represents rich side and we put ukulele and some cushion on the right side of the stage. Our scene starts from the narrator standing middle of the stage introducing the play. Then we perform peasant side and rich side in an order.