Staging of specials

  If I'm staging the play for My love, my love or the peasant girl, I would make the gods have exaggerated appearance and special expressions. In the original novel, gods played extremely important roles in the story. People worshipped them, peasants prayed to them all the time. The religion, culture elements should be huge portions of the stage play. In the book, four gods existed and each of them deserves a distinctive character. In my opinion, costumes and masks are the keys to make the characters special. And colors can be used to distinguish gods from each other.
  The costumes should correspond to the god's identities. For example, the god of death should have a depressed image. It can be shown by dark color costume or even weapons like sickle. Also, Mask would be a great fit for a god. When people talk about gods, they always show up in imaginations because every individual can have a different impression of gods. Masks can be strong illustrations for gods, because they express different things than human faces. For example, the mask can be blue with conch and carving waves on it, that would be a great presence for the god of ocean; it can be made of wood with leafs and roots for the god of plants. Masks effectively show the gods' characteristics by visual representation. Of course, the play will also work without the mask, but the make up must be explicit enough to reflect the god's impression. I used to perform in a middle school play. I can still remember the fire god in that play had flamboyant fire patterns drawn on his arm. The make up was successful because it attract audience's eyes. That's what I will do.
  Colors are what best distinguish the gods from each other. For Asaka, the god of earth and growing, his theme color should be green and brown, these two colors represent plants and nature. In order to show more of his identity, there can be green stage light shining on Asaka. Agwe is the god of water and sea, so his color should be blue. Papage and Erzulie are the gods of death and love. They are kind of the opposite of each other so I would use strong contrasting colors on them, such as black and white. It's also a good idea to give Erzulie the color pink, or peach to show the love's sweetness. Besides the colors, decorations can be an important element to make the gods special. For example, gods can have wings while humans can't. Unrealistic decorations distinguish them from human beings. A decoration varies along the personalities of a character. For example, the god of death can have scary decorations on him such as bones and skulls.
  In conclusion, gods are different existence than human beings and there are all sorts of ways to make them special. The colors distinguish them from each other. Costumes, masks and decorations distinguish them from humans. They can be really outstanding in the play.