The night of 6 plays...
okok...went to this play 2 nights before...at the DBS Arts Centre..it was the night when the students of ACJC are gonna take their exams....some of them were....not TOO bad...others were too profound for me..so i'll jus try to interpret them...but these are MY interpretaions...so might not be accurate..
Schmaltzthis play is an exploration of how an individual can feel controlled by the society...where the society does not allow one to feelwad one truely feels..."i'm not allowed to feel sad!!"...
The Boythis play...is..er...about..a..boy..right....it starts off..with Oliver...he was found, by a lake...covered in bruises..he was brought to a nursing home, by Rose, to help him recover..Ivan, another worker of the home, was in charge of consulting him, finding out his problems...Oliver was a strange boy, ever often so lost in his own world, and sometimes breaking out in fits of rage, and always finds peace in the lake...it was by coincidence..that one day...in a fit of rage, Rose brought him to the lake to calm him down..removing his coat, she found a news article...(some person's name/ i forgot), father of Oliver Lim was found dead in the lake on 8th of August 2006, her son was later found, covered in bruises further down the lake, the police has yet to release any comments regarding the issue...horrified at the truth, Rose ran offstage....Should the boy love and forgive his father?...or continue hating his father for his abuse?...
Left or RightThis play was about, as the name may suggest, choices...more specifiacally, it tries to show (to me) how choices are made, sometimes irrationally, and how it can affect the ones concerned...the play itself is divided into 2 linear plots, and everytime a choice is made, a bell goes...the story starts off, with mother and daughter...mother goes on..at length, to try to tell how much she loves her daughter, and how she was protected and that prevented her from telling her daughter something impt....tt her life is ending..her muscles will soon fail, her nervous system will break down, leaving her trapped in a body she can't control..this is when she pleaded her daughter, to pull the plug when the time comes...the daughter was against it...totally..i mean..who wouldn't?...but ultimately, she agreed...in this first plot, we see 3 choices being made..the choice of the parent in telling the child the truth, the parent in pleading the child to pull the plug, and finally, the child in agreeing to the parents request..in the second plot, the charecter changes,with the first part (the period of time before the first choice was made), this time, a mother and her rebellious son..the mother repeats the same line, and the son reamins dtubbon and refuses to listen, blaming the mother for her lack of ] show [ of love...next part, the charecter changes again, when the father is now trying to convince his daughter to pull the plug...the daughter refuses, wanting to use her father's saving (which is for her education) for his medication, her father refuses....part three...son and father...father wants son to pull the plug..but son strongly strongly refuses..."i''m not strong enuf dad..i'm not strong enuf.."
the msg is clear..wadeva choice we make....it will affect those who are involved...rather then looking from jus ur own pt of view, it would really help if one chooses to make a choice from other ppl's shoes as well..it other words..a rational choice.......
ok,.....heres's the interlude...and i'm tired...the other 3 plays will be updated when i feel like it....
who we are today are the summation of all the choices we have once made, whether we were aware or not..