I am not very satisfied with the final product I made. It only took 11 minutes but when I practiced before, it took me about 13 minutes.
My oral presentation is divided into five major parts:
> introduction of the novel + understanding of the texts:
I make a brief introduction about the story New York Day Women, and I illustrate two intriguing points of the story that appeal to me, which are the two major themes: the mother-daughter relationships and the Haitian immigrants. Under each theme, I also put my explanation with supporting some examples that are directly from the book to tell the listeners what makes this story stand out from the rest of the book and why I would like to explore them more in my adaptation.
> critical perspectives on the dramatic potential of the texts
In the second part, I introduce my adaptation more specifically, in which includes two stories and a pre-scene and ending scene. While I am telling each of the stories I create, I also relate them with the two major themes that I mention above in the first part.
> insights into the performance process experienced from page to stage
When I listen to this part later after I finish the oral presentation, I clearly realize that there is more I could add up to it. This part is relatively short that all the others. I just briefly introduce the two challenges we meet --- need a lot of props to set up the scene & the large age span we need to perform --- but there is not any detailed explanation about how we solve the problem. I think I could add more details into it like we were using all the three triangular walls in the scene I during the rehearsal but we removed all of them in the rest of the scenes; and, after we realized that that would be a huge time-consuming "project" to do in the real performance so we just left all three of them throughout the play on the stage.
> critical evaluation of their particular role and contribution to this process of transformation or adaptation and realization
In this part, I specifically introduce the role I play --- Suzette, and the challenges I meet, progress I have made, the strength and weakness I have while playing the two different ages of this character. Again, like what I did in the first part, I use many detailed examples like the specific body languages that I added during the performance for enriching the monologue. However, as I notice later when I listen to the recording, my ending sentence is to "rush"; I could add more to the part when I play the Suzette at 35. That is one thing I am ashamed of.
> conclusion
I bring out the two major themes of the story that appeal to me again at the beginning of the conclusion. Then, I use more detailed things to tell the listeners how I feel empathize with my character as I perform it. Once again, I have got a very rush ending at last, which I think is one of the reasons that shorten my time.
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