My group and I have encountered a few barriers that are keeping us away from designing the performance fluently. To me, Jamal Malik is a total stranger few days ago, and maybe he still is. Most of the group members only got the chance to went though the whole movie briefly, since only one of us have the resource. The lack of detail and understanding to the movie makes me nervous and becoming short of ideas. In the first step, which was the distribution of characters, each one of us had an idea of what we prefer to act so it was decided pretty fast. But problem came immediately: how are we going to demonstrate the characters that we don't know that well. I really need more time to digest the figures in the movie that represent the author's ideas. One of us suggested that we don't need to follow the movie completely, I can just insert my own understanding into the performance.
My role in the play is Jamal Malik, the character that shows up most frequently. It may be a tough experience for me, because I don't know much about Indian culture. But I would say Jamal's character is definitely not the hardest to perform, since his characteristics generally remain stable. Unlike his brother, who evolved from a smart kid to a killer, to a criminal, Jamal is always like a piece of white paper but covered with ink - reflecting India's most bottom parts of society's darkness while remains white and pure inside. It's going to be hard to perform all that, showing his fear as well as strength. How humble he is when facing all the treasure in front of him, because of all the darkness he had witnessed.
Lastly, we are still trying to decorate the script, to make it vivid. It's taking longer than the original plan, since we are making a decent amount of changes from the movie. But I really enjoy the process, because I get to know the story better and it really interests me.
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