Wendla than finds Melchior writing in his diary and he ask her to sit with him for a while, so she does. They are both uneasy around one another and this leads to "Word Of Your Body". After this the other girls run out and Martha's braid come undone and Thea tells her not to worry about, that isn't it such a hassle to braid it each day? Wendla exclaims that tomorrow she is going to bring scissors and thats when Martha tells her not to because her dad beats her enough as it is. Martha shows rest of the girls the bruise on her arm from her father which leads to the song "The Dark I Know Well" the song is split up between Martha who is abused by her father and Ilse who was sexually abused by her father and who also ran away from home. After the song Wendla goes to find Melchior and when she does she tell him about Martha and says that she has never felt anything before. She holds up a stick and ask him to beat her with it. At first her denies her and than he complies and when he does he gets carried about and beats her with his fist.
Moritz had found out that he did not pass the semester and that he would probably not be promoted to the next year of classes. Fanny Gabor, Melchi's mom, wrote Moritz a letter in response to the one he had sent her. This leads to the song "And Than There Were None", which is a combination of Fanny writing the letter to Moritz and him responding back to her. Than Melchior is in his hayloft and he too is now confused of his body even though he knows more than most of his classmates, this leads to the song "Mirror Blue Night" in which he claims he is a man and a child. Wendla finds him and he does not want to face her due to what he did to her. She convinces him to talk to her and they do. Than all of a sudden they are confessing their love for one another. Melchi wants to take it one step further but Wendla who has no one idea whats going on tells him no. He keeps talking to her and they begin to kiss and once more he tries to go further than just kissing. Finally Wendla agrees to it and they have sex. All the other kids come and grabs the side of the hayloft and sing "I Believe". And this ends Act 1.
I will write act 2 later
No comments:
Post a Comment