Staging proposal due on blogs by 11pm -- 500 words. Describe how you would stage MLML or TPG as a play, your vision of it. What does it look and feel like? Talk about how the stage is set up, color, characters, lighting, etc. Drawings optional.

A scene I would stage in my love my love would be the helicopter scene. However, I would create an adaptation of the helicopter scene. I would exaggerate how the rich do not like the poor. I would put a more modern spin on the play to make the rich seem like they had more power. This play would take place in a black box theater, where the lights were on because it is daytime.

In the first scene, the wealthy would come flying down on ropes. They will be descending in the upstage right, and the villagers will be in the upstage center. In the background, there would be helicopter noise. There would be a crowd of poorly dressed men and woman below them. The villagers will be mumbling about a bird, and jibbering about the strange thing in the sky. As the people on the rope descended, you would be able to see that they were nicely dressed. The people in the helicopter would all be taller than the people in the crowd to show their power. Additionally, to show their power they would all be holding weapons.

When the rich descended they would land and shout, “Silence! Where is my son!” He would do this while firing a gun in the air. This will add exaggerated anger to the play. Meanwhile, all the peasants will be trembling in fear. Then the rich make will grab a villager by his clothes and shout, “Peasant, take me to my son!” The poor will be quivering in fear. All of them will look scared. Then a villager will take the rich man to the downstage left stage where there will be a small hut.  The man will see his son and threaten to kill several villagers for what they did to his son. Then a villager will frantically try to exclaim that she was helping him. The rich man will call over his men and instruct them to carry him to the plane.

The rich men will walk back to upstage right, past the villagers who are still surrounding the helicopter. Then the rich men will throw a handful of pennies at the poor. This will be symbolic to show how the rich see the peasants as less than them. The peasants will swarm to pick up these pennies. The rich men will attach themselves to the ropes, and leave without saying thank you. This will show how the wealthy completely disregard and disrespect the poor.

In this scene, the villagers will be dirty and skinny to show that they’re starving. Their clothes will be tattered, and they will be barefoot, in addition to having long shaggy hair. In  the downstage right stage, there will be brown dead crops to show the current famine. Additionally, in downstage center there will be peasants in the background curled in a ball and tattered blankets. These will be homeless people and will help show the class difference.

The purpose of this adaptation will be to show the imbalance between the poor and the rich. It will show how they are completely different and that the rich will never care for the poor. This adaptation will be important in introducing the tainted relationship between the rich and the poor. Also, this scene will foreshadow the future of the play where the man falls in love with another woman. This scene will be crucial to the overall plot of the play.