Maddie's IB SL Theater Blog

From what I have read about this production I think that it is going to be very serious story of the story of a transgender woman’s journey. I think that it will give a lot of insight to the obstacles and struggles that people who are struggling with their gender identity have to go through. I also think that it will give a lot of insight about what it is like to be a gay man in the Bible Belt because that is where Doug is from. For me I think that it is going to be very interesting especially because I know a lot about what happened to Jewish people during World War two, but I don’t know as much about what happened to transgender people. I am interested to see to what extent they add comedy to the show because it is a serious topic but in the article it said that there would be elements of comedy added throughout the show. The article also talked about how Charlotte’s father was abusive so this play is probably going to go into depth about this issue, which is also prevalent today. ...

I think that our second draft made a lot of improvements from our original piece. We have a more developed plot and message that matches our original vision for this piece. Our vision for this was to emphasize the conflict between the two sisters and how they don’t know how to show each other what they are feeling. Our new draft definitely shows the conflict between the sisters and how Ellie is holding in her feelings about what she really thinks. Another part of our vision was making sure that there were some abstract parts of our piece because we wanted to challenge ourselves to make some things more undefined. We didn’t do this in the second draft but during the feedback session about our draft we talked about creating a scene in the beginning to show the relationship between the real and dream Ellie. The scene we created was very similar to some of the viewpoints that we did in the beginning of the year. Helena is walking around and I am following her and eventually we meet and I ...