Maddie's IB SL Theater Blog

One of the strengths of our project right now is that it has a very well developed plot. We have decided what is going to happen when, and in what order these things will take place. This has been true of our project from the beginning, and while our project isn’t very complex with our sequence of events, what happens in each scene, and the emotions of the characters are the more complex aspects of our project. Another one of our group’s strengths is our interaction with each other on stage as characters. We have definitely been working on the dialogue between characters to make it more like what people would say to each other during a conversation. I think the first scene between the “real” Ellie (Helena), and Sophia (Caroline) has definitely come a long way and they have improved a lot on this scene since we started this project. One of our weaknesses right now is the scene during the dream between me and Caroline. During this part she is at the war base and I am at home writing h...

1. What is the stimulus you are using? Describe it. The stimulus that we are using is the song Just a Dream by Carrie Underwood. The song starts with a young woman getting married. Her husband eventually joins the military and leaves her alone at their house. The woman eventually finds out that her husband was killed because a military representative brings her a letter. Most of the song is her singing about how she feels like what she is living is just a dream she wishes would end. She sang about why this had to happen and that this wasn’t how she imagined her life turning out. 2. What are/were some of your initial ideas based on the stimulus? Our initial ideas were to something historical and somewhat dark. This eventually developed into ideas about maybe doing something about a person leaving for war, and the people around them don’t know what to say and do. This progressed into somehow including a dream in our piece, where the person getting left behind is saying all of...