After watching the School of Rock musical I couldn't have been more impressed. The students put on a remarkable performance. To make something of this complex work everyone needed to be on top of it and they all were from the stage crew, to the lights and of course the actors themselves. They all working in perfect sync. You can notice this when as soon as the scene is going to change you see everyone helping to get the stage ready and people are scrambling around and coming out of places I didn't know there even was a room there you can really take that for granite being in the audience. There where a lot of great things I have to say about this the fist on is Lexi did a amazing job portraying dewie finn from the actual movie, having the right combination of goofy and funny, but also knows what they are doing. That leads me into the other thing I really like was that all of the cast  reminded me exactly how the people in the movie where and it felt like i was watching the movie and i was just like wait I'm at school and not watching this in a movie theater. Every time  I come to one of these I also am very impressed on how everyone can memories there lines. Im having a hard time memorizing my lines for are in class play that we have to put on and its probably like one eight of the amount of lines lexi had. I mean the play was like 2 and half hours long and she was talking every time. And it crazy how she remembered all of them and just was so relaxed during it. I mean i could never do that.  I like how they recreated the movie in a small theater like the black box and i like how they added  songs within the script i mean obviously its a musical so there will be singing but the songs really like tied up what they were talking about and it just like tied everything up. Another thing that I liked is how the audience was like at a concert and it was just a really cool experience listening to all of this music it was great because at the end it was like you were actually at the battle of the bands and i don't know hoe to explain it. All i really need to say is it was a great experience and I'm glad we had to go for are class because i probably wouldn't have on my own.

After reading what my classmates had to say in response to the play we programmed most off them had concerns about emotions. This is understandable because there is two separate monologues. And so the person is isolated and because of this there isn't almost any reaction and is hard to express emotion. Also since we didn't have the lines memorized and we were just reading it thats why it also sounded like we were just reading it. This will be solved when we have are lines memorized and when we go through are script and go over what line should show this and that. Also we need to go over are blocking little more because we need to face different ways in different parts of the script so maybe when I'm saying something about how I want to leave this place I can shift my position and have my back facing the wall because I feel bad for leaving my mother. Another thing we will be doing is using the wall to are advantaged what I mean by this is also to bring out more emotions we can maybe put are hands on the wall for certain parts of the script again. The main feedback we got was that. Also another thing is since are play was only 7 is minus people suggested that we added another scene and I think that is what we will be dong. Just so we can have another scene where we can interact and have emotions almost like when we did it in the beginning. If we do all of this then I think we will be in a really good place. Some scenes I was thinking that we could add was the mother saying her finally good byes to her son as he leave s to go to colleges this I think has the potential to be very powerful and speck volumes to the audience. This is going to be the climate bemuses that was another thing that are classmates had some confusion about because there wasn't really atoning that happened it was jus them talking back and forth nothing happened so this is one way we can change it. I think that  this scene if we choose to do it can really tie up all lose ends within the story. Having the mother who holding her son down and she finally get the strength to let him go because she knows that there int anything for him here. And then they can hug and the son can say something like i know you did the best you could do since your a single mom, and just like accept her so who she is and what she did for him and just not care about her "night job".  So yeah I think if we do all of this then it will put us in a really  great place and also make the play flow more, have more meaning and more emotion.

Narration: In the depths of despair one can lean on someone else,family always has your back no matter the situation.However,you can’t hold them down and let them sink with you…..The lives of the mother and son didn't progress much. They still live in poverty but the son has grown up and  is going to college soon, the mother still has her night job and is slowly losing it.

Beginning of the scene

Mother is sitting on her bed counting a stack of money and both her and her son are slowly getting ready for bed

The son is reading the newspaper and the mother comes in

Mother (to herself): under her breath:6,7,8,9,10…...I finally have enough

Son(to himself): I wonder what 17 Across is…

Mother:Hey son?I have something to tell you

Son:Oh what is it mother?

Mother: Since you’re all grown up and this is your senior year I payed for all of your college textbook in advance!

Son:What?? Are for real? Mother do you know how mad expensive those are? We could never possible afford them! Why? And where did you get the money from

Mother: I was just thinking about it and I thought it would be nice to have my son go to college with everything provided,plus it is my treat since you got the full scholarship….so I worked a little extra shifts at my
job. I just want you to be happy

Son: Extra shifts…You mean at your “Night job”

Mother: Yes Son at my night job. You know that we live in a hard period of time

Son * Turns around away from her on the mat* : Whatever.

Mother * Stands there doubtfully for a second longer,sighs and leaves to her side*

Son* As soon as she leaves,sits back up*

Silence in both rooms for about 3 seconds

Son: If… if only the angels would actually come

Mother: If only we lived somewhere far far away

Son:There’s really nothing that could be done, even I know that. I just want to have a stable life I’m sick of living like this…

Mother: If I only I could do something about this,our country is falling apart and I’m worried about my son’s future…

Son:All the kids at my school laugh at me,calling my
mother words like slut or whore. I just act oblivious and ignore them. I need to focus on my studies so I could have a better tomorrow

Mother: All of my friends have left me a long time ago,they obviously didn’t approve of my choice of career. at least I still have my baby who will always stay. I see them pass with their baskets of self-made fabric,they make as much as I do yet still stuck up their noses as if they are royalty……….who’s the scum now

Son: I can’t stay here any longer I have to leave.. I want to but I really can’t because that woman is going to die without me. Also she did raise me after all. I’m worried about her she is actually insane

Mother: Just remembering  the angels makes me forget about this nightmare,also Emanuel brings me flowers and treats my like the most intimate of lovers,My son’s old man used to be like that too

Son: I’m going to study so hard in college,go abroad and become a politician and stop this whole mess

Mother: I already acknowledged the fact that I’ll live like this forever but that is okay,as long as my baby is with me

Son: I’m nearly 18,I’ll finally be going into college. Adulthood!

Mother: I’ll never let him go

Son: But of course I really wish the situation was different,that things weren’t this way

Mother: Nothing can be don’t

Son:I love my mother Mother: I love my son

*Both turn around as if heard each other* lights go out.

When coming up with the set for “Night Woman” we wanted to bring out where the mother and son rank in social class. They are very poor, and to symbolize this we have the play open and they both are in there rooms, and are lying on mats. They will be separated by a wall, and will both go back and forth talking to themselves.The lighting is also important because it isolates them, nothing is in the way, just their two sides and their beds.


Lighting description:Dark at the beginning of the narration, after the narration is the done the two spotlights go on (narration ending is the cue) focused on each side of the wall, darkness surrounding everything else. The lights are on during the whole show but then go out in the end.

Set props: Wall, two mats, two pillows

Possession props: Newspaper,Money, Pen

Mother costume: Spaghetti strap tank, shorts/skirt + the red scarf

Son costume: plain sweatshirt/t shirt, plain sweatpants

Night Women

Two different sides divided by a wall, dark stage but light focused on one person on each side.
The mother & son are preparing to go to bed after their daily routine

Mother just had a customer is counting a stack of bills after he left
Son is reading,closes the book and goes lies in bed,sighing.
Most of the conversation is melancholic, doubtful and should give clues to what the story is about


Story starting off with a narration that gives a setting for our adaptation, the lights are off and moments after the narration is done the lights go on and the scene begins.

Themes of the adaptation: family,hope, motivation etc

Narration: In the depths of despair one can lean on someone else,family always has your back no matter the situation.However,you can’t hold them down and let them sink with you…..The lives of the mother and son didn't progress much. They still live in poverty but the son has grown up and  is going to college soon, the mother still has her night job and is slowly losing it.

Beginning of the scene

Mother is sitting on her bed counting a stack of money and both her and her son are slowly getting ready for bed

The son is reading the newspaper and the mother comes in

Mother (to herself): under her breath:6,7,8,9,10…...I finally have enough

Son(to himself): I wonder what 17 Across is…

Mother:Hey son?I have something to tell you

Son:Oh what is it mother?

I will portray the Night Women son around 8 years later from where it begins in the book, he will be around the age of 17. He will appear to be a normal teen but will be broken inside from his childhood. With all of the constant lies his mother said to him making him be social awkward. He will behave as a good son. Doesn't get into trouble, smart and compassionate only to a extend meaning he doesn't truly forgive his mother 100 percent for what she does. However he still doesn't really know what his mother does. So he assumes to the worse possible thing and doesn't try to talk to his mother about it. The motivation that he has it is want to get the best grades possible to make it out of Haiti and give his family a better life then he had, he needs to make it out. But, the one thing standing in his way is his mother she keeps pulling him back in and still talks about the angles making the on think she's crazy so he can't leave her all alone. Whats important to know about my character before hand is he pretends a lot, he's very creative with his mind and the main reason for this is because of all the things his mother said to him at a young age to cover the fact that she's a prostitution. And because of this his social skills lack a lot and he doesn't have a lot of friends maybe like 2 or 3 and he puts on a act to his mother that everything is okay but it isn't. So he day dreams a lot and usually stays up very late at night think about anything. And its because of this that he soon starts to realize who his mother really is.