All of which I tried to explore here.Īfter Hakim’s last outburst, it becomes crystal clear that both parties have explained their behavior, and Hakim has acknowledged that it is more a personal insult to the religion due to Russell’s ignorance, rather than a blanket racist hatred that Russell had for the Malay trainee.
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Not because he was punished, sir!” this matter is much deeper than just the colour of their skin that the outside world perceives, they do not see the intricacies behind Russell and Hakim’s actions. Hakim too acknowledges Russells ignorance and cultural insensitivity: “You dragged a dog to lick that Malay trainee, sir. This rising action is mirrored by the actors movements as well, as they slowly stand up to push their point. But rather how their personal dramas are being coloured by the colour of their skin, something which they never wanted when Russell says: “Everyone down here wears the same coolour, even our fucking haircut! Everyone has equal treatment here”. As the duologue moves to a climax, the audience realizes that these are not racist slurs being thrown at each other. Russell seemed moved to defend himself as well as he questions his own objectives. I wanted the audience to know that the conflict they had was more personal, so I had Hakim mount a pressing verbal attack on Russell, in terms of picking up in speed, anger and intensity as the duologue moved on. Their voices are also mechanical and dead. Their movements are also supposed to be rigid and still, as if they are slowly waking up and suffering from the effects of rigor mortis. Therefore, in the final presentation I decided to have Hakim mime the removing of a cloth covering Russell’s face, the kind that would be pulled over one’s eyes when one is dead. To do so, I would need to draw the audience’s attention to the fact that they are dead. Even more so evoke a sense of pity because despite understanding the issue at hand, audience as well as the Russell and Hakim are powerless to change their circumstances. I also want to portray more poignancy to this scene because we only fully understand the circumstances of the deaths now. I want to audience to realize that their deaths were not the result of the race issue.
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It would also bring their deaths full circle as we can understand it better given it mirroring the earlier death scene in the play. I want the audience to realize the horror of their misunderstandings. I realized that I had to create a very strong impression of death and along with it create a very strong sense of regret for both Russell and Hakim.
I decided to take a departure away from realism because after all you don’t have dead characters talking in realism and directed it in a more stylistic manner with more concise blocking. I then decided to have the actors laid out on the stage, much as if they were being pulled right out of a morgue. I then recalled while we were reading through the script in the earlier parts, the stage directions mentioned two corpses being laid out on the ground with the soldiers acting around it. The message in conveying that vision was not clear enough in my directing. Indeed, after the first presentation I was forced to relook at the piece again and to explore new ways of staging with my original vision in mind. However, given the limitations of the space the idea was shelved. My intention was to create a disembodied feel to convey their deaths. So in choosing to focus on the intricacies and the insecurities of poor directing I had overlooked my original vision of having Russell and Hakim cast in darkness illuminated only from waist up. This excerpt that I chose was supposed to be a re-enactment. I suppose I was a little too preoccupied with directing the minute details of blocking and stage movement (since I was afraid of things becoming too stale on stage without movement), that I had forgotten about the entire vision that I had for the piece – that is their death scene. After the first preliminary presentation, I found that the presentation of Hakim and Russell were somewhat lacking in what they were trying to present.
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