mini performance

       Three different groups showed different theme by different styles of performance.  Nan's group has race as their theme, the theme of Helen, David and Joey's group is violence, and the theme of our group was police.

       For the race and violence themes, the two words are abstract, but both of them made great performance that they were easy to be understood.  Especially, I like the way they choose to perform.  Race is more like group of people's identities, and different identities are all independent and special, so it is really good for Nan, David and Josh to pick one identity each and pick the monologue from them.   They all tell their stories, with icons, like the religion for Jews and raps for the black.  Therefore, they performed each race clearly. Helen, David, and Joey were using similar techniques, but they chose a short monologue from each race they represented and connected each dialogue to a scene. I think it is the best way to represent the anger and violence.  For a same event, Helen represented Jew and Joey represented the black.  Even though they saw the event differently, the they all showed their misunderstanding to each other and anger. 

       Our theme, police, is more related to a daily figure.  However, I felt like it is hard to act out, because there is no direct interview from the police.  The figure of police is depicted in black and jew's words.  Aaron found an interesting scene that the boy sent the other blacks out of the dangerous place and got accidents.  Based on this scene, we wanted to show directly the identity of polices and the relationship between policies and the black.  Aaron was the black boy, Yun was Richard Green, and I was the white cop.  My goal is to show the discrimination and rude of the white cop, but it is hard to perform a silence show.  My biggest problem was that I would say something, but the words should all come from the book.  Unfortunately, all policies lived in other's descriptions, so I had to pick discriminate lines everywhere in the book and from different people.  Then, I found "heil hitler" saying from the black.  It is a memory showed that the black were really angry to Jews.  It is really ironic that what I spoke to the black boy in the performance were all originally from the black people.

       It is not correct to be racist, but as a white cop, I think there isn't no reason for them to hate the blacks.  They fought, they argued, and they got troubles to police.  At this moment, the white police not only disdain black but also are afraid of them.  Therefore, I borrowed the black's words, borrowed the black's anger and released them back to another black person.  That is how relationship works between police and the black.