Report on progress made to Collaborative Project, strengths and weaknesses

Our devising group has recently been trying to run through all of the scenes from top to bottom and figure out if our plot really makes sense. We found our script pretty solid, but thought that other than our choice of wording and lighting, there was something big missing. When doing this, we realized that our play didn’t give the audience something to follow, it was merely a performance that could only really be watched and most likely lead the audience to be confused in regards to the plays purpose. Our resolution to this problem was to figure out what character this play revolved around. By analyzing our script, we decided it revolved around the character Sara. Sara’s character originally was addressed as a women who had been “cheating” on her husband, and recently got caught. This was a well structured character description, but it lacked substance. Why did Sara “cheat” on her husband? This is the question we sought to answer through description of Sara and her relationships amongst characters for the remainder of the script.

In order to answer the question of why Sara cheated on her husband, our group:
  • Created a relationship between Sara and Marcus where it was clear that Marcus saw Sara as strictly platonic, but Sara saw Marcus as much more.
  • Explained that Steve is an alcoholic who never is really around for Sara.
  • Gave a monologue to Sara so she could explain her longing for a relationship like the one Marcus and his wife, Natalie, has.
  • Monologue at end of last scene to allow Sara to express final thoughts on the matter of relationships previously addressed in the play.

By doing so, the answer to why Sara “cheated” on her husband was because she longed for a relationship like Marcus and Natalie’s and specifically, a man like Marcus who is there for her, unlike Steve who is usually drunk and at bars.

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