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- I've been spoilt I have seen Shakespeare and such so many times.. something with a message, clever words working at multiple levels, things that make you laugh interesting characters topped with enimatic acting, stirring music and clever effects. So when I go and see other shows my silent words are "go on impress me, show me something, I've paid the money so entertain me." It's one thing to act a story, but there has to be a show the people have paid there money so entertain them. - Often I think I saw some good acting, a plot with a twist, but have I really been entertained was it worth the 4 hour journey to get there and back ?
- If one puts a play on in front of paying punters then surely one has a duty to entertain them. And that's the magic of drama one can do that educate them, take to different places and experiences make them laugh stir at their emotions and leave them asking for more. yes you can do it. I'm a customer give entertain me !
| 3 plays not quite finished
at KLPAC
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- A set of 3 short plays. The acting was very good throughout, but the stories seemed to need more work to me.
- 1.Untitled - what a crap name for a play
- good scene, setting and characters.A modern Chinese family setting : a hippie daughter, a professional breakdancing son and a neurotic mother, but after that the play never went anywhere or gave us any message except children like to do their own thing and parents get over concerned about financial security.
| 2nd Play : Uncut
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- the idea of the chief film censor getting tempted is very good idea.
- The character acting was at first very good this being a very experienced actor.
- The female director loosens her hair arousing him. She comes close, he wants to touch her, he does.
So far true - Then he propostions her; this is the part that was not convincing. It's not just a Malay or Muslim thing it applies to all of who have a moral line to cross.
- He not only propostions her he tries to leverage her by offering to look again at her banned film. This is entirely plausible, but not convincing with the words used, but I don't think it's that difficult to come up with right words. e.g. him locking the door and then him perceiving that Miss L also felt mutual desire, then he would try to kiss her. Only after crossing that line would he need to offer a review of the film i.e. in order to keep her from exposing him to the authorities.
- The character had a lot of depth, but you can tell the play was written by a non-muslim I think, but then again maybe the writer toned down some aspects. The guy would never allow himself to be alone with a woman and surely would invoke Allah, when the situation got tricky.
- An addional joke was the phrase that it's not so bad really to sin a you can always repent and God will forgive you thus highlighting the hypocrisy of religious people.
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3rd Play - Paperhouse
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- The third play was about 2 sisters meeting at funeral of their mother at the paper temple offering shop one sister has now taken over from the mother. The other sister has become a city girl. The characters were well done, but the plot went nowhere. A Malay child turned up, but disappeared through locked doors in the morning, so was this the mothers ghost, paradoxically it was the devoted daughter who was rude to the child.
| F for Female @BSC 29th March
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- I of course expected the playlets to glorify women and the role of feminism. At a guess maybe some potential punters got put off by this expectation and never came. Full marks for the writers for not doing this, but instead twisting the public's expections by coming up with 4 real, but negative characters.
- In the 1st playlet Anything for love considered the interaction of 2 women one who had somehow ditched the handsome guy for a rich powerful, but closet gay man so is now wealthy, but longing, whilst her friend had
ended up married Mr Handsome, but was being driven to kowtow to help him stave off starvation. The interesting vehicle of having each have an additional actor play the part of their hidden alter-egos worked very well, helping reveal their hidden motives of one wanting to feel important and see her old boyfriend again whilst the other doesn't want to reveal how poor and desperate she is - However I'm not sure the production told me anything new and it upset me a little to focus on the overdone life of the rich and famous instead of ordinary people.
- The second piece Infant dealt with 2 even darker characters, a woman has ended gang raped and tortured, but has not been believed in court. - A new scene Now she has someone captured and bound. It's revealed it's the person responsible for her injustice a woman lawyer who has been able to outsmart thus "stupid girl" and keep the evil paymaster gangster out of jail.
- how did it end
- "how could you leave this monster free to prey on other women ", "shut up you are a dirty whore and women like you don't count you take money for sex anyway "
- The prostitute is revealed to be pretty smart after all as she has dug up evidence of the lawyers dirty secret a secretly aborted child which she was able to get away with, because of her families powerful connections. - Yeh, what's new doesn't the Bible already say "he who casts the first stone should be without sin" ? - The acting was mostly very good, but there was something about the lawyer chacter that made her not quite convincing.
- The thing is even though the acting was often very good I felt as if I was watching just part of a show a much bigger and impressive production in preparation instead of a full show I had paid to see. They weren't satisfying enough on their own to send me off wandering
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