Proposal

       The Krik Krak story I would like to perform is Children of The Sea. For this story, two characters would be more suitable to keep the focus on the main characters. One character acting the female and another acting the male character on the boat. I will not change a part of setting which is how the characters are separated and will be separated by the end, so it leaves more imagining space and also a sad mood for the audience. What I am going to change is the location of the setting—from Haiti to North Korea. I remember reading a book about a teenage girl trying to leave North Korea with her mother and I have seen some short stories on the internet about it, I found it interesting and it could also be attractive towards the audience.

       First of all, the couple in Children of The Sea will be acting as husband and wife living in North Korea. Their daughter left them a few weeks ago, before she left, she told her parents (the two characters, actors) that she wanted to leave and she knew a woman that could help her cross the border through her friends. This is the precondition that could be told through the conversations from the two actors while showing concerns to their missing daughter. However, the mother emotionally but firmly decided to leave North Korea to the border of South Korea because of a note her daughter left behind saying that she will be waiting for them for three days with an address telling them who to find help. Then the mother leaves with the father covering their backs pretending that they're dead. Moving on quickly with these backgrounds, the part where the situation is alike the situation in Children of The Sea will start. The mother did not found the daughter on her journey but she kept on trying while she's under a shelter from South Korea, where the mother started writing letters to the father back in North Korea. The ending of my plot after the actors read through all the letters like a conversation, will be the husband's disappearance while no more letters did the mother received. However, I want to leave it with a little mystery letting the audience to imagine what have happened to the husband back in North Korea.
      The setting and lighting will basically be set into two parts where the husband in North Korea having darker lights and messier background showing difficulties of a comfortable life. The actors should also be dressing into costumes like workers in North Korea to show their hard life that makes the daughter's escape make sense.
    I think this might be a good idea because it reflects a situation alike Krik Krak's location---Haiti; where some of the people would want to leave because of an oppressive government. It also connects to stories in Krik Krak relating to the loving relationship between a mother a daughter. However, it is also interesting that the difference between the lovers from Children of the Sea is now replaced with a married couple showing a different side of love, could be interpreted as a more mature love with sacrifices.