If you don't know who Raphael is, it's the name given to my phone. The pictures I take are what Raphael sees. Here's one random camwhore shot of some V13 people in the VJ canteen.
This was when I was on stage, doing The Chairs. The TSD class watches.
Went shopping and movie with the V13 girls. Here's a shop called TRF, short for This Ridiculous Fashion.
Found this in Topshop. Believe it or not, the two things they're carrying are bags of some sort.
This is outside the cinema.Thursday, we went to watch Much Ado About Nothing. A really good show.
The Amazing set of the show, if you can see.
Bubble tea with Gabriel. I was apparently sucking on his 'COC'.And funny enough, the white liquid in there tasted good.
We were caught eating on the bus. Report us on STOMP!
This is the half the class left on the last minute of the last lesson in semester one of J1 life in VJC. We are the surviving few in A15! (the rest all pon)
I went to see Much Ado About Nothing. It was a really good performance. Written by Shakespeare, the style of the play was something I had never seen, since this was the first time I watched a Shakespearean play. I think besides the cheem talk, I really love the intricacies of Shakespearean plays. It's really fancy and dramatic. And I like it dramatic. And the dialogue is so amusingly clever and intelligent. It really makes you think.That production was stylized into an olden day Singapore Peranakan ish context. I didn't quite get the context, cos I didn't really feel it was appropriate. I don't know, maybe it's just me being ignorant to our past of English people immersing into the Peranakan culture and Singaporeans into the English. Besides that, context and tradition was good.
Actors and directing were impeccable on the whole. Reading a script of any Shakespear play, you might find it draggy and rather static at times, but the director, I thought, did a good job making use of various actions, and different deliveries of the story and the lines. And also the use of proxemics and the choreography of specific movements and moments. There was a really good balance of drama and naturalism, static and motion-filled, and even Commedia Dell'arte and Vaudeville. Though I doubt the two were existing in the period of Shakespeare's existance. However, I didn't quite like how the group of soldier ish people were brought up. I totally missed out on the purpose of their existance on stage and I thought that as an ensemble, there was a lot of room for improvement for them to be more together and more contextualized with the rest of the play. But besides that, the actors like Adrian Pang, Jason Chan, Micheal Corbidge, and the whole lot were really a feast for the soul.
I must say that the one thing that strikes people first is the set. It's elegance and stature alone brings one to admirance of its mere standing on the hillside of Fort Canning Park. It was a brilliantly desigened set. And especially with the Peranakan, olden day Singapore theme, the set was made more brilliant and worked well. It really served an aesthetic and functional purpose, which is really the best a set design can do for a play. The design really gives a lot of room to make the play less static and more play of space and proxemics. Really nice.
It was an excellent and exciting night for everyone there. We all sat on the grass and picnicked under the stars while watching the play and it was simply magical. A rather unique theatre experience, if you haven't actually been to their previous Shakespeare at the Park play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. I think I should have gone for that, but how was I to know? It happened two years ago. I would probably go if the SRT does another Shakespeare piece at Fort Canning Park again.
Last night was Friday night. Friday nights for me are meant for relaxing and taking in the weekend mood. That night, I was made to contemplate on life and how it can converge and diverge in relation to people's lives. A One-hour duologue, Fairytaleheart was a thought-provoking piece of Youth Theatre that really touches your heart. It's about how two strangers meet in a dark and abandoned community centre and they get to know each other's lives. Eventually their lives converge.
Magic is the word to describe how the director, set designers and light designers made the story or rather stories, come to life and eventually fade to dark as the play comes to an end. Though the really cool lighting effects achieved by the use of 45 candles on stage were really the intention of the playwright himself, the production team from I Theatre really did a good job putting it on stage and expanding on that magic, with the use of torch lights and UV lights and glow-in-the-dark paint.
The actors were brave and brilliant in portraying the characters in the script and also bringing the audience, however big or small (there was 15 people that night), on a rollercoaster journey of emotions that spark from the lives and turning points of the characters.
Overall, a great one hour spent. Indeed, it is much recommended for everyone, especially youth.
Well, so much for all these drama blabbering. The holidays are here! I hope to see you people soon though...
