Creative Theatrical Response - What are we doing and why!

We have chosen to put a modern twist on this very classic poem. We are going to have Percy portray the role of a teenager very upset with his reading assignment who throws his book on the floor. I will be portraying the mother who comes in to talk to him but Cole will be reading the lines for me. Percy will be paying little attention to me at first, looking down at his IPhone at the beginning of the lecture. When Cole says the line "bare" that will be my cue to grab the IPhone from Percy's hand so that he is paying more attention to me. Cole will continue to read and I will be making mannerisms as if I am speaking the lines to Percy myself. The performance is expected to take about a minute, 15 seconds for the acting in the beginning and 45 seconds for Cole to read the lines. We are choosing to highlight that the boy is having a rough time which is the reason the mother is giving the lecture in the first place. We have done this rather than focusing on the unfortunate life events of the mother so that the performance it is not all about the mom. We wanted to focus more on the son rather than the mother, and the parent/child relationship.