In my adaptation of An Italian Straw Hat, the time period it would be set in is the present time. So, if someone were to perform this adaptation in 2075, they would dress the characters in the fashion styles of the 2010s. The location of this play is Johnson County, Kansas. There would need to be a couple of different set changes. The first set would be Ashley’s House. The next set should resemble a liquor store. Then there would need to be a set to resemble a fancy drug lord. And the final set needed would be a higher end house, primarily in a kitchen. The cast would be made up of ten characters, all of which are female. The characters from the original that I would not transfer to my adaptation would be Felix, Virginie, Butler, Maid, Trouillebert, …show more content…
However instead of an Italian straw hat that has been chewed up, it is an Italian bottle of wine. The bottle of wine belongs to the aunt, who was saving it for Thanksgiving. The wine is important because she needs to drink it on Thanksgiving so she can deal with the family that she is hosting. The problem is, she left it in her car. Then Lilly borrowed her car to drive over to Ashley and Amber’s House. Lilly found the wine and brought it inside and proceeded to drink it. Once Amber realizes it was Aunt’s special wine that Lilly had drunk, she insisted that they find a replacement. Lilly was not in the right state of mind to go out and find a new bottle and Amber stayed at home to take care of her. So, Ashley called an Uber and her and the other girls started on the journey. They decided not to tell the others (the wedding party or group of girls) about the wine because they did not want them to worry or end up spilling the beans. The girls, however, thought they were going to taco bell. So, they go to the liquor store first, to see if they sell the wine. Ashley goes into the cellar with Clara, the owner of the liquor store, while the girls stay in the Uber. The girls get restless, however, and think the liquor store is taco bell. They come in and start ordering tacos from the attendant, Tardine. Clara tells Ashley that they are out of the Italian wine. However, the last person they sold it to was Charmaine, whose family sold drugs for a living. On the way to Charmaine’s house they stop at taco bell for the girls. However, when they get there, Rose, Charmaine’s niece, believes Ashley is there to pick up some drugs. Ashley just wanted the wine, so she figured she would play along with it until she could get the wine. Charmaine comes in and insists that Ashley used some of the drugs before she left, so she knows she is not a narc. Ashley obliges, however she still has the bottle of wine on her
Her red dress does not end up fitting her perfectly and adds a different shade of red strip to the waist and it is very noticeable. On one of the acts, she trips and falls. The crowd laughs and throws random items at her while calling her “Miss Hot Tamale”. In Carnell’s last patriotic act, she aces it and thinks it’ll give her a second chance in winning. When the results for the contest roll around, she sees that she didn’t win first place in the The Miss Firecracker Contest, she came in very last at 5th place. She is
Vermeer’s Hat offers a unique look at the rise of global trade through Brook’s eyes. Brook uses each of the paintings to describe to the audience a different picture of how the world began progressing. Most think of Vermeer as an isolated artist, with no real connection to the world outside of the walls of his mother-in-law’s house. However, as Brook shows us throughout the story, this could not be further from the truth. Brook relies on the paintings to interpret the rise of global trade to show the audience how architecture has contributed to the rise of global trade, how specific objects in the paintings related to trade, and how geography influenced trade.
Cali has an inkling she can find out who the killer is while all the family is under one roof, but interrogating them would be repugnant. Hoping she can figure out who killed her uncle, Caren agreed to help cali. They needed to be careful, they could not afford for anyone to thwart their plans. Caren and Cali would use the monumental house to their advantage, weeding out the guilty party and compelling them to confess. The girls would have to be careful not to bring up subjects that would make things poignant. As they walk into the kitchen, with the rest of the family, they notice cousin Jack complaining about how ravenous he was, and that if he did not get food soon, he would eat his own
Also, Cadence’s grandmother, Tipper, passes away. Arriving on the island Summer Fifteen, Cadence can see that her grandma is a sore subject no one wants to bring up. The aunts don’t want to upset their father, so they tell the younger cousins, the “Littles,” and the Liars to not mention their grandma’s death. But that doesn’t stop them from having an ongoing dispute about who is going to receive all their mother’s valuable possessions. All four of the Liars clearly express their annoyance with her aunts over what they find to be something that isn’t important to them at all. The aunts drank excessive amounts of alcohol, got themselves highly intoxicated and they would lash out. They asked and pleaded for their oldest children (Mirren, Cadence and Johnny) to ask their grandfather for the items that would please them and “benefit” their
In this drama the women are watching out the window in anticipation for the paperman’s visit to collect his money, showing that they are so lonely and isolated they literally wait for any kind of outside interaction they can receive. The sisters know the exact day and timeframe the paperboy and meter man will be by their house, and try to get them to come in for a tea party, but more importantly to hear their stories of the past and visit with them for a little while. They have obviously been doing these tea parties at least for a little while because they know not only the exact set up they want to obligate him to stay and visit, but they also know the different worker men’s preferred drinks., seen in the sisters’ dialogue with each
In Romeo & Juliet, one major element of design is the setting because the film took place in Verona, Italy which suggests the use of décor, costumes, and hairstyles. Zefirelli uses on location within an exterior scene in figure one as a key element of symbolism that portrays the division between the two families living in separate castles. Another element of design that Zefirelli uses are costumes in order to distinguish the differences between the Capulet family and the Montague family. In figures two and three, Juliet is wearing a “high-waisted empire dress made from thick, plush velvet, with flowing sleeves” that is more of a subtle red and gold costume, while the Capulet family’s costumes were more contrast colors of red and gold (CITE). Zefirelli differentiated Juliet from her family in order to portray to the audience that her family is a part of the conflict, while she is portrayed as an unbiased character. He also distinguishes Romeo and his family’s costumes. Romeo’s costume consisted of dark red and blue with some contrast in his sleeves of bright blue, but the Montagues differed from Romeo because the Montagues had no significant bright contrast in their costumes. Another difference was the hairstyles between the Capulets and Montagues and differs in hierarchy amongst the two families. In figure two, the royal Capulet women have the hornedhead dressed cap covering their
It is still Saturday night and Holden is bored so he goes to the club in the hotel. The waiter will not serve him alcohol. At the next table there are three women who are giggling at him. Holden asks the ladies to dance. Holden find out that the ladies are from Seattle, Washington. After the ladies leave the club Holden gets bored because there are no drinks are and no girls, so he leave. In the lobby he sits down in a chair and thinks about Jane Gallagher.
The production focuses on a set of teenagers who are friends with Allison, who surreptitiously convinces her friends to share their secrets, thus developing her loyalty to them. Once Allison disappeared, she left a mystery of who was responsible for her disappearance, dragging her friends into her dark secrets. Her body is later found, and the girls, who drifted apart after Allison went missing, start to reconnect, but their troubles are only beginning. After the funeral, all four of the girls receive messages from a stoker who calls himself or herself 'A'. ‘A' exposes many of the girl's dark secrets that only Allison knew of, leading the girls to wonder if Allison might be alive after all. ‘A' causes trouble for the girls and intervenes in their life, threatening not only their lives, but also the lives of those around them. On the road to discovering who ‘A' is, the girls come across numerous clues that incriminate people that they trust and love. Many citizens of the town seem involved in the mystery of their friend's death, making the entire town seem like a place of danger and discomfort.
The summer before ninth grade, Melinda and her friends attend their first high school party. Melinda meets a senior named Andy Evans. The two dance, talk, and kiss. As the night goes on, Andy becomes aggressive and rapes Melinda. In her drunken and terrified state, Melinda calls the cops but won’t tell anyone what happened to her. The entire school finds out Melinda is who crashed the party and everyone ditches her. During the early months of freshmen year, Melinda is without friends, and falls into a depressive state. She befriends a girl named Heather, who later ditches her due to her “low social hierarchy”. Rachel, Melinda’s former best friend, begins to date Andy. Scared and worried for her friend, Melinda decides she must tell her about that night. Rachel refuses to believe what she has to say and storms out. However, Rachel eventually believes Melinda the more she thinks about the story, and calls Andy out. When Melinda finally has enough courage to leave her closet for good, Andy locks her inside. The fuming man attempts to rape her again, but Melinda is not the same girl anymore. She slaps and scratches a...
In 1996 an australian film director Baz Luhrman introduces the new adaptation of the ageless love story – “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare. The action is moved to America and happening in the end of 20th century. In an imaginary city Verona Beach the two powerful clans Montague (Anglo-Saxon) and Capulet (Latinos) brutally rival. The swords are substituted with the guns, the ancient costumes with jeans and shirts. The art director Catherine Martin didn’t have any lack of materials, since the 20th century brought a great variety of heels, lighters, shirts, bikers, rockers, leather, tattoos, piercing, etc. The creators originally approached the small details: the street posters
Jack didn’t know what to do in this situation, but all the while he suspected that his wife was cheating on him as well. Jack calls his sister Ellen to get her opinion, but in the process she ends up deciding to come down and stay with them for a while. Jack seemed hesitant but grateful for the company because Julia was never home anymore, she was too busy working at the fab plant for Xymos. When Julia hears that Ellen is coming over, she decides to leave work early. When she pulls in, Eric the middle child says he see someone in the cart with her, but when she walks through the door, she is alone. After dinner, julia abruptly leaves, but as Jack sees her pull out, he sees the figure of a man in the passenger
While Charlie is working for Squizzy Taylor, he is given a few jobs in which he needs another person to help him out. Charlie asks Nostrils if he’d be willing to do the jobs with him and even though they are dangerous and risky tasks, Nostrils agrees to help him. One of the jobs involves the boys having to deliver wine to a man on the other side of Richmond. Charlie and Nostrils had to carry wine while running through the dark streets and sustaining their stealth. The boys nearly get caught by a police officer when they arrive at the costumer’s house, but are then told that that police officer works for him. Even after the first wine run being nerve racking for the two boys, Nostrils again agrees to help Charlie out with the second wine run.
Her roommate, a seventeen-year-old girl named Andrea, is a recovering heroin addict who also has a history of self-harm. At first, Gwen refuses to have anything to do with the treatment programs and denies that she even has a drinking problem. One day, Jasper shows up to visit and slips her a bottle of Vicodin. The two then proceed to sneak away from the rehab facility for a day of partying. That night, Gwen returns clearly intoxicated and makes her way to her bedroom. The next day, she is confronted by Cornell, the rehab facility director and fellow recovering addict. He informs her that she has broken the rules of the facility and is being kicked out and sent to jail. Gwen becomes infuriated and continues to deny that she has a problem with alcohol and states that she can quit if she had the desire. She storms out of Cornell’s office and off to her room where she rummages through a tissue box to find her stash of pills. Gwen proceeds to take a pill of Vicodin, but spits it back out before swallowing. She then tosses the remaining pills in the bottle out the window proving to herself she does not need
The guy and the girl are now sitting at a bar deciding what they should drink. The girl takes off her hat and puts it on the table. This action symbolizes her putting her feelings on the table to talk about them with the man. Instead of coming straight out and talking about the problems the couple decides to drink beer. The act of consuming alcohol is another way for them to run away from their problems. Later on, the man and the woman are talking and the woman says, “They look like white elephants.” He replies to her comment by saying, “I’ve never seen one.
In addition to the location, Luhrmann chose to have a contemporary look for the costumes as well. For instance, in the opening scene the Montague boys are sporting Hawaiian shirts and artificially coloured hair whereas the Capulet boys wore leather and metal-heeled boots. This current approach is a major deviation from the traditional Elizabethan wear, location and facilities that were available.