Choosing Metaphor

I initially wanted the black square to be my metaphor, but I wanted a bit more. Instead I chose this rectangle balanced on one of its right angles. I feel this rectangle represents how rigid the scene is, while also representing the gender-related tension of the scene (the rectangle is precariously balanced).

• The rectangle with the empty middle: 
• I want the play to be very uniform
• to not be flowing
• to have very little movement
• almost to the point where the play seems boring, undramatic
• The red rim:
• The drama of the scene/play is all condensed into the characters' expressions. Everything else is uniform. Yet it is still the border of a rectangle, so the expressions aren't over-dramatic (there is an attempt at realism).

The characters are trying to hide their desires to the point where these emotions are almost lost (represented by the blank space of the rectangle). Yet, their feelings come out in the form of the red rim.

Initial Impressions

• Excerpt from Blood Wedding by Frederico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)
• play takes place in the early 20th C.
• Mother and Father discussing their children's marriage?
• Mother leading conversation
• Male vs. Female relationships
• Father has a daughter....Mother has a son; interesting the way the genders are mixed up
• Very forced dialogue
• Rigid
• Very little movement
• High tension
• Black and white
• Not very emotive, language/words over emotion

It is the turn of the century, so the status of women is changing in society. This is what I want to pursue in this project: the relationships between men and women. It seems to me, the characters in the scene are hiding what they want to express through this forced discussion of their children. The characters are trying to get around the tension in the scene by avoiding it. Perhaps the Father doesn't like how the Mother is acting superior to him (she's in charge of the scene), especially because she is a women.

Also their children both seem really interesting. The son is handsome, yet "he has never known a woman". The daughter never talks, yet "she can cut a strong cord with her teeth". Neither of them are cardboard cut outs...they have characteristics that contrast. Perhaps the son shares some of his characteristics with the Father and the daughter shares some characteristics with the Mother. Keeping in mind that it is the Father who has a daughter and the Mother who has a son.

This 2-dimensional square represents some of the themes I was first feeling