Staging Design

In my staging, the backdrop is the most important piece of work, and it is an illustration of the whole story's background. Like what the backdrop is shown, the whale is on the top, representing the village's spirit and guide their lives. Under the whale, there are two Maori warriors. They meet each other by the Maori's traditional greeting - hongi. The two warriors represent the union of the villagers and how they stay together and love each other under he whale(tradition, religion)'s guide. On the left side, the pattern represent the tradition of Maori's. And on the right side, there's an airplane and a tree on the beach which represent the view of New Zealand and the modern part of the world. The two sides make a contrast and show the conflict of tradition and modernization. For the staging part, I select the last scene. As what my proposal stated, the whale will show up in the form of human. And in the last scene, Kahu will be having conversations with the old whale in blue light which shows that  they are in the ocean world. The rest of the stage are performed in darker light.