Last Thursday, 13th September 2007, I went to see a play entitle 4.48 Psychosis at KLPAC with my friends. We went there by komuter and reached around 7.50pm. We though KLPAC was opposite the railway station so we decided to walk. Unfortunately we were lost… = ( We then decided to take a taxi to KLPAC. We reached KLPAC around 8.20pm. The building we thought was KLPAC was actually a show unit building. I was not sure what it was actually… anyway… after arriving, we bought tickets… I saw Gavin Yap. At first I don’t know he was the producer of the play… after reading an article outside the theater, I got to know bout it…. In the article, I also got to know that it was talked about play and a very popular play… Ok as it was my first time watching a play, I felt out of place as the people come there were so called ‘High Class’ , u can tell it by their style and clothing. I felt so so out of place…
As I entered the show, I though the sittings were according to numbers stated on the tickets, but actually we could sit anywhere… at that moment I thought to myself, how naïve could I be… then the lights were off… but the play haven’t started… hmmm… I was thinking to myself… why haven’t it started yet??… Then after waiting about 10 minutes I guess, the play started… I really don’t know why they must wait for 10 minutes to start the play??I watch the play with full enthusiasm… I watch how the actor and actresses bring their character out with full emotions… the play was difficult to understand as it was very abstract… later then I understood that it was actually dealing with a thought of a woman with two parts of the her which is the soul and the body… interacting with each other… I think the part of the body should be given to a actress rather than a actor as it really confused me especially… it’s dealing with woman’s though, so why can’t they just use an actress… it wouldn’t complicate the story… but they were so good in portraying the characters. I too was brought into the character… the only thing in the play that gave me a culture shock was there was too much usage of the word ‘Fuck’… *sigh* … hmmm… I still remember one utterance that one of the actresses, Susan Lankaster which really struck me… ‘I fuck you God’. It’s still fresh in my mind and I could hear it repeatedly in my mind… I think it’s because of the environment that I was brought up where these kinds of utterances are taboo among my family members.
While watching the play I felt too rigid as I couldn’t do anything but just being static in the theater hall, it’s unlike in the movies where I can do what ever I want to do… its pin drop silences!!! Even my phone’s vibration could be heard… I felt so embarrassed!!
The play ended at about 9.30pm… Overall, I think its nice play but it’s kinda a difficult for me to interpret… and I had to combine the pieces to actually get the idea and comprehend the play… on the other hand, I also got an idea of how to act in front of the audience as next semester I would be taking the subject theater.. It a good exposure to me actually..
As I entered the show, I though the sittings were according to numbers stated on the tickets, but actually we could sit anywhere… at that moment I thought to myself, how naïve could I be… then the lights were off… but the play haven’t started… hmmm… I was thinking to myself… why haven’t it started yet??… Then after waiting about 10 minutes I guess, the play started… I really don’t know why they must wait for 10 minutes to start the play??I watch the play with full enthusiasm… I watch how the actor and actresses bring their character out with full emotions… the play was difficult to understand as it was very abstract… later then I understood that it was actually dealing with a thought of a woman with two parts of the her which is the soul and the body… interacting with each other… I think the part of the body should be given to a actress rather than a actor as it really confused me especially… it’s dealing with woman’s though, so why can’t they just use an actress… it wouldn’t complicate the story… but they were so good in portraying the characters. I too was brought into the character… the only thing in the play that gave me a culture shock was there was too much usage of the word ‘Fuck’… *sigh* … hmmm… I still remember one utterance that one of the actresses, Susan Lankaster which really struck me… ‘I fuck you God’. It’s still fresh in my mind and I could hear it repeatedly in my mind… I think it’s because of the environment that I was brought up where these kinds of utterances are taboo among my family members.
While watching the play I felt too rigid as I couldn’t do anything but just being static in the theater hall, it’s unlike in the movies where I can do what ever I want to do… its pin drop silences!!! Even my phone’s vibration could be heard… I felt so embarrassed!!
The play ended at about 9.30pm… Overall, I think its nice play but it’s kinda a difficult for me to interpret… and I had to combine the pieces to actually get the idea and comprehend the play… on the other hand, I also got an idea of how to act in front of the audience as next semester I would be taking the subject theater.. It a good exposure to me actually..
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