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SMALL ISLAND - Coggle Diagram

- - - - intensity - of the lanterns
      - distribution - shape and direction of light allowing to change how the audience percieves the environment
        
        frontlight - angle of lighting that is used to acheieve the best visibility (for lighting faces)
        
        backlight - it helps to make the picture a dynamic one, creates a silhouette and halo effect around the head (used when an actors face doesn't want to be seen)
      - movement - sweeps of light across a stage can appear dramatic. fades can be executed at a variety of speeds to make the audience aware of a tempo change in the performance (timings are important to achieve the desired effect. Movement of light can be used to show a room getting darker as night approaches or changing from bright sunshine to fog
      - colour - shapes the visual appearance of the stage and infleunces mood and atmoshpere by shaping the visual appearnce. it can be used to mimic everyday light conditions such as light filtering through leaves. coulour can as symbolise certian elements and themes in the play.
  - - - Multi-media – black and white images
      - Colonial map
      - Palm trees – remote, provincial, place with a violent storm happening in comparison to the projection of London
      - Using black and white makes it feel like it could be from that time
      - The way that this piece of theatre has been visualised in Epic theatre style and design in comparison to the acting which is
      - Key words – flies (the actual place of where stuff is held)/trap door/gobo/suspended/proxemics/authentic/minimalistic
    - - The betrayal – how does lighting 'mark the moment' when Michael kisses the teacher
      - The projection of the storm when Michael kisses Ms Roberts starts to become much more violent representing Hortense's feelings for him but also giving us as the audience a sense of location
      - The white woman is more important than the black woman Infront of Michael – internal racism
      - Spotlights on them like your looking through Hortense's eyes – even though there is a hurricane she and we are as an audience is focused on them
- - - - Queenie's life is a constant struggle to escape the circumstances of her birth.
      - Queenie grows up on a farm run by her father whose primary business is as a butcher. Queenie is repulsed by life on the farm and the bloody business of butchering.
      - She escapes temporarily to live with her aunt in London, but her aunt's death threatens to send Queenie straight back to the farm. Queenie accepts a proposal from a man she has tried to leave so she will not have to return to the farm.
      - The marriage between Queenie and Bernard Bligh is built on the foundation of Queenie's desperation not to return to the farm rather than love or affection. The marriage is expectedly hollow and unsatisfying.
      - Queenie develops a friendship with two Jamaican men named Gilbert Joseph and Michael Roberts. Queenie is proud that she does not judge others based on their skin color, and her friendship with these men is partially motivated by Bernard's racism. She differentiates herself from her husband by learning to love the people he hates.
      - Her friendship with Michael becomes romantic, and Queenie finds herself in an impossible position. She gives birth to Michael's child but must give up the baby. Queenie's sacrifice reveals her understanding of the reality of the world. .
      - She wants to ensure that the baby has the best possible life. Queenie has spent her life trying to escape a difficult childhood and makes a huge sacrifice to ensure that her child does not have to face a similar situation
    - - sexism
      - isolation
      - loneliness