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"Moonlight" de Barry Jenkins - adapté de la pièce de théâtre "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue" de Tarell Alvin McCraney - avec Alex R. Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, Trevante Rhodes, Mahershala Ali, Janelle Monáe, Naomie Harris et Andre Holland, février 2017.

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The Brothers Size scene breakdown

The Brothers Size

Scene Breakdown

  Places in the play:

prologue space/dream space/flashback

home

repair shop

  Prologue

This is a liminal space that is not wholly removed from the rest of the story. It sets the tempo for the entire show and creates a primal, eternal sensibility that tugs at the seams of reality. It may seem outlandish at first, but its poetry is heard in the language. Its lighting should be seen – if not felt – in the coming scenes.

  Act I:

Scene 1 home, morning

The morning calls for either harsh sunlight or a warmer, murkier haze.

Scene 2 shop with Elegba, midday

Lunchtime may be the sticky heat of summer and a high noon sun. If it is hot enough, the sun may cause shimmering mirages. Elegba is also an intrusive presence into the brothers’ lives, and his lighting could use something off-kilter or even sinister.

There is some singing.

Scene 3 shop with brothers, afternoon on the same day

They discuss Ogun’s lost love. There is closeness and tension between them.

Scene 4 home, dinner that night

It is “unusually quiet.” The brothers complain and quarrel over dinner.

Scene 5 night, Oshoosi dreaming

This scene should reflect the Prologue. It is a “sad” dream with a “sweet” song.

Scene 6 morning

Oshoosi wakes from a nightmare. The entire scene is his narration of waking.

Scene 7 shop, perhaps mid-morning

This scene may be touched by the nightmare that came before.

  Act II:

Scene 1 a week later, Ogun dreaming

The dream is strange and ominous. It and its lighting may foreshadow trouble to come.

Scene 2 home, morning after the dream

This time, it is Ogun who wakes in fear.

Scene 3 home, the next morning

The action is critical.

Scene 4 home, night

The anger is palpable. The retelling of action is critical.

Scene 5 home, later the same night

The brothers have an argument.

Scene 6 home, morning

This morning is a harsh, unsettled morning.