How some decisions were made
The 'Hospital' scene was really made in the week before the performance. The reason we came up with this scene was because we feared the piece wouldn't make sense without it. Our piece is all in the character Christina's mind and the only way we felt we could show this was by showing the audience that Christina was in a coma. How we came up with the idea was by linking it to the real woman in the painting; "Christina's World". The woman in the painting was diagnosed with a deadly infectious disease caused by a virus that spreads from person to person invading the brain and spinal cord; this is called Polio. Although our Christina has not got Polio we still used the idea of her being in a critical condition to show her being lost in her own mind.
Coming up with the last scene was hard, as we had all the idea for it but we didn't know how to develop it. We finally decided on showing the audience that although Christina may be happy now, she still questions whether or not she's entirely free. How we came up with this idea was exactly the same as the other idea; by linking it to the painting but this time for an entirely different reason. For this scene instead of going into the back story of the painting we looked at the painting and interpreted how we all thought she felt in the painting. We all interpreted it as although Christina showed that she had strong will and determination she still wasn't completely free to do everything she wanted as her disability stopped her and how that would effect her state, whether that be physical or mental. The last line Christina says in our piece was "Am I Free?" and all of us whispering "Wake up, Christina." To show that whatever happens next in her life is her decision as she wakes up from the coma.
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