Profundity

For the next couple of days we've planned to practice the presentation IB will require us to make in about another year or so. Besides that, we've been just picking up on odds and ends that we have yet to finish. One such thing relates back to the rituals we had discussed last week and now we were posed with the question of what kind of production we could devise from the ritual. Since I didn't particularly like my own about Indians dropping their children from roofs, I chose Kim's ritual from East Timor for funerary rites. From this ritual, I told the class about a plot line that would revolve around a foreigner who had recently passed away in a nation very different from his own. It would either be someone from East Timor who had passed away in London or someone from London who had passed away in East Timor. Essentially the deceased's friends would attempt to arrange a funeral in the style of the deceased's culture, "attempt" being the operative word. The main problem that my teacher pointed out was that if the plot line went the way of someone from East Timor passing away in London, how would an English audience be able to distinguish between what was being done right and wrong in the funeral since the East Timor culture is foreign. Considering that I planned to make my production a comedy, the knowledge part was essential. From this practice, I've learned that IB would probably be more accepting of a dramatic piece. What really got me was that despite its pitfalls, our teacher genuinely liked our ideas and thought they would be interesting to carry out. I don't know why, but that just amazes me. Theatre amazes me everyday.