Hello my names Ethan Kornacki and me and my partner chose to recreate the story night woman from krick krack and transform it into a black box production. The story night woman is about a haitian family living in hadi. The mother is a prostitute and only works at night hence night woman. Her son is around 8 ish years old and during the story is the conflict the son has about what his mom does for work, he isn't old enough to know what she does exactly but he kinda gets the idea of it. And the mother fills his head with lies and stories and she thinks in her own head that he doesn't know and is oblivious to the fact that her son knows about her night job. Some themes you can take away from this is the sacrifice parents made for their children's and this was a big part in us coming up with the storyline for the play, because i think sometimes as kids we forget what are parents did to get us to where we are know. And we wanted to hone in on that. Because of that when we were creating our script we wanted to have the son be much older so we had it fast forward 10 years where he is now a senior in highschool and is going to college. With all of the thoughts and lies she plagued her son with as a child caused their relationship to be broken.

And during are play we wanted them to go back in forth really talking about why the mother did what she did, and just didn't do what any other single mother would do and pick up extra shift. And the reason to justify her actions is hati is a huge male dominated country. Women get treated with little respect and don't get the same job opportunities that a man would be given. After coming up with a solid script we went over the staging of are scene. This part is really important because it's one thing if you talk about what's going on to the audience it doesn't sink in, however if they can see it it give them the insight to what maybe a similar familie would be going through. And we wanted to show that this family was struggling to get by so we chose to just have one wall separating the mother and the son, just too rooms. We wanted to use this wall to show the clear divide between the two. And with this there really isn't that much emotion since there was only 2 interaction scenes. A way to add that was when ever we felt has the actor or actress we would put our hands to the wall as a sign for love, and passion.

When performing this being the son was hard because you can never really know what he went through, you have and idea of emotions and colors to bring out but you can never know so it was tough to portray him and really stepping in his shoes, maybe because we didn't have anything in common. “Compared to some of my friends,I have lived a dreadful and miserable 18 years of my life hiding behind a curtain, living in poverty” this line is important and i think very powerful because being a broken and sheltered kid they don't like to talk about their struggles and this is himself finally trying to do that and living behind a curtain and get really deep you start to analysis it. It can symbol him and his mother is the certin that covers him up and tries to protect him from the truth.

Looking back on how I did somethings that I would like to improve would be bringing out different tones of voices, and example when i'm standing up for myself I should raise my voice and say it with pride and like you mean it. And when i say something about the mother and her night job i should lower my voice because i'm not suppose to know what she does. And that's hard to do when you're in the moment and you didn't memorize your lines like that so that's something in the future I would like to improve on. Because it's a great way to show emotion in such a low key way.