Scene 4 is where Mau and Daphne meet for the first time. They struggle to understand each other and Daphne is wary of Mau. She gets frightened and produces a gun. She fires at him, but the gun hasn't got any bullets. They recover from the incident and Daphne apologies. She invites him for tea on the ship wreck.
For this scene I thought that Daphne would walk through the audience, who would be sitting in traverse, and stop half way to observe Mau. Daphne speaks quietly to Milton about the boy she can see one the beach. When Mau, who will be on the stage, sees Daphne she can walk up there to be able to talk to him. They will have their interaction up on the stage, which will represent the beach. In the middle of the scene the stage direction says 'Mau stamps the ground in a ritual war chant and then charges forward', this will scare Daphne so both of them will run down off the stage and back into the audience. This will be when Daphne tries to shoot him, so she could get an every day object, such as an umbrella, off an audience member and use it as the gun. After the shooting, they will continue their interaction among the audience, until Daphne and Milton exit. At the end of the scene Mau talks to the grandfathers, who could be in the orchestra pit.
In our group we made a diagram of the stage and plotted the positions of the characters during the scene...
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