Directorial Vision.

Directorial Vision!! =D

• What's the play about?

It's about family relationship; the ups and downs about living under one roof. With very strong personalities that ends up in conflicts. The story is about how love between family members that's supposed to be close, uncalculating, is actually not shown in the extract.

Benjamin, the father should be encouraging and emotionally supportive but he is very selfish in a sense that he only thinks of himself and he does not realise that his actions affect his children in a negative way. This play is about human's difficulty to show love which in turn causes relationships to turn sour. Paul Zindel (playwright) actually uses cobalt-60 as a representation of Benjamin while he's decaying, exposes the harmful radiation onto his children (the plants used in the experiment).

The play's also about Mattie; even though he's exposed to the harmful radiation his father's producing, he still has a positive outlook on life. He does not give up and continue to persue his dreams, believing that things will turn out for the better (like the good mutation that he'd mentioned.)

And our fear that we'll not be loved or desired that create hatred / jealousy towards other people.

• Portraying the play.

We want the audience to be emotionally, psychologically affected, therefore the play shall have more passion and be more dramatic. We want the audience to feel the emotions that the characters feel and understand and sympathize with the characters' situation. We want people to leave the play, reflecting on their own lifes and whether they have achieved the goals that they have set for themselves, and for their families.

• How're we gonna make our audiences be affected by the play, emotionally and psychologically.

The actors are going to be utilizing Stanislavski's method in which we would understand the character's background and be the character.

• Actors will use Stanislavski's "Method acting" to bring out the character.
• The 3 Step approach:
  
  1. Actors will prepare by analysing the given text, understand and develop the characters.
  2. Actors will bring out physical characteristics.
  3. Actors will then combine physical and mental aspects to portray the character.
• We're going to maximize the use of lightings so that each scene will make an impact.
• The music theme would also be one that has an empty yet hopeful (promising) feel to it.

This is what we currently have. We'll add more to it if we have to. =)