DRAMATURGY - THE REAL THEATRE

[Wednesday, 2nd May 2012]

So its the big day. Damn.

One of the poster for Dramaturgy.

(Design by David C. Photography by Celine LT)

The past 3 months flew by so fast and here I am at the end of the my last semester down at ADP.


Damn it all feels so weird and surreal. In a couple of months and I'm going to be in the US.


But heck, I have to focus on this finals first. Wow my first ever role on stage that is not myself or close to myself. I mean in a public performance.


I've never really played anything out of my comfort zone really. I suppose Gail is probably my first character that has something that I completely have not experience. The joy of being a mother, having  a daughter, marriage life with the man I don't love; I mean I've never experience any of these before, and to be honest, I didn't think I would be able to pull them off. I'm very proud of myself of coming thus far. And now I am attached to this Abigail Lynn character, and I know that she will always be inside of me no matter how long after the performance.


So we decided that everyone has to come in by 8.30 to actually do bump and tag because we didn't get to do those yesterday. So yea, I got my ass there real early as usual, and just dumped my stuff backstage, before going out to do some errands. I had to print out the onsite script and prepare the RESERVED signs for our guests of honor tonight. Then I sort of just hang outside for a while till around 8.30.


I came back in and I saw Lih Seng, Leanne and a couple of others folding the program book. Damn. It looked good. Good job David for the designs :)


So, since majority was in, we began bump and tagging the floor. Eric and Josh came late, so we already bumped for them. The rest of the bumping went pretty smoothly, except for Stuck's bumping. Well let's just say Lycel was being a little bit difficult, so we didn't really bump for her. I mean she pretty much just left us halfway bumping. Heck I'm not gonna run after her and chase after her to stay and finish the bumping. If the running crew placed their props at the wrong places, not my problem, and neither it is the running crew's fault. It's because she didn't even bother bumping the floor herself.


Oh wells moving on. David, Vhina and I were running around like mad man trying to get everything sorted. I actually forgot to slid 3 program books underneath Rey's office, and when David called me, I had to rush to the office in the middle of the rain. And it doesn't help that everywhere is sooo damn slippery!


Pretty soon it was 2.45pm already. 45 minutes before the opening of the stage for the theater 101. The backstage crew from theater 102 were all in already. Vhina and I made sure that there were no hindrances and then we were set to go. Rey was already inside the theater, and he called out all the theater 101 people while the theater 102 people set up whatever they need to set up.


By the time 3.30 came, the door was opened. Leanne and Zong Yong was down at the entrance welcoming the people. Vhina was down at her post and I went around to double check if everything was ok. I also wished the 101s best of luck and to go out there and have the time of their life.


We started late, obviously, because even by 3.45, the house was only half filled. It was raining, can't be helped. But of course the show must go on. So they went on, and I can tell that the audience loved it! Good for them. But half way, the standing colored lights went out. Shit. There goes the lighting. URGH! Everything just has to go wrong these past few days.


Then by 4.15 they were done. They took the curtain call and rushed back to the changing room and changed to their black shirts. Oh no wait, they were already wearing black. HAHA. oh wells. Obviously, me and Vhina has to go and chase the audience out of the theater so we can actually set the stage and stuff like that.


Pretty soon it was 5. We were scheduled to start at 5.10 and looks like Rey told us to start earlier. Damn, our videographer wasn't in when we started. Because she had class that ended at 5. So she missed the first 2 performances. Apologies to Josh, Eric, Filza and Wei Lim. That was poor planning by me.


Damn the first 2 performances went pretty fast and pretty soon I found myself already right behind the entrance screen, waiting for the 3rd performance to finish. OMG it was even more nerve wracking being there, than on stage. I kept myself breathing and calm, and focused on Gail. I remembered the times that I spent with Eric, whats inside that room that I'm going into etc. Of course I also prayed. It's one of my rituals before going on stage.


Pretty soon the 3rd performance ended, and it was our turn. I stood behind the screen and with Vhina's cue, walked into my scene. Teck Sern forgot to make the noise though. HAHA.


That 10 minutes on stage was probably one that I won't forget, and one of the longest. I was Gail. I wasn't Celine. I was Abigail Lynn; mother of Elizabeth Young, wife of Frederick Young, and ex-girlfriend of Eric Evelyn Cooper, and damn it felt good.


I could feel myself getting hot when Eric said the lines, "You don't love Fred". You know, that sense of heat at the back of your head when you just got caught doing something bad? Yea that feeling. I could feel it. I felt that I was in character.


Yea, there were minor slip ups, but I'm proud of myself and Teck Sern for pulling through and ad-libbing when we did make mistakes. Obviously, given more time, we could have done better. But I think that we made the most of the time we had and obviously we didn't give the audience a half-assed show. We gave them our best.


I was pretty scared that it was too draggy and too boring for some of the people. I mean I saw two guys down in the front row playing with their phone. Seriously? Come on, that's not nice. But heck, I have a show to run and a whole house of audience to entertain. I really couldn't careless about two guys at the sidelines. 


By the time we finished, I was exhausted. Gail really took much out of me. When I let go of Eric, I became myself again. I couldn't help but smile at Teck Sern because we both know that it was finally over, and we both know that we've given them the best that we could have had. I have no regrets.


The only regret would be the fact that I probably, shouldn't have worn the shawl. I didn't practice with them and heck I looked really awkward with them.


Note to self. NEVER USE A PART OF COSTUME THAT YOU'VE NEVER PRACTICE IN.


When we took a final bow, I couldn't hide the genuine smile of joy that I had on my face. Sure it was over, but it always feels great to hear the applause of the audience. And it felt great; standing in front of these people with my talented and awesome classmates. It was a great feeling. Its a great feeling, knowing that we've given it our all that night.


It was an awesome night, we finished actually finished earlier than planned, thanks to the quick change of scene by our running crew, which consisted of Dharen, Kelvin and Tarang, as well as the accurate cues by our light and sound crews which consisted of Amanda, Gloria, and Debra. Of course not forgetting the leader of this crew, Marissa. Many thanks to the theater 101 people that helped us out. It wouldn't be such a success if it weren't because of you all.


Thank you to Sarah Yong for being our make up artist and did some of our make up as well :) And then to our photographer Au Xin Ni and our videographer, Momoko Uchimura as well. Looking forward to the photos and videos.


I thought some people were great. I thought Leanne and Adam was amazing. Lih Seng was on fire yesterday. He was literally crying on stage. Filza was on fire. When Leanne and I were preparing ourselves in the changing room, I could hear her shouting at Wei Lim.


I thought we all did well last night. No one screwed up real badly, but there were some really exceptional ones. Overall, I think we all did a good job and gave it our all on that stage. I love my class and this is definitely one class I will miss.

All the theater classes and their respective Lecturers.

Above, Theater 101 Section 4, 5 & 6, with Ms Pat Chan

Middle, Theater 102 (cast of Dramaturgy) and Theater 101 Section 3 with Rey Buono

Bottom, Theater 101 Section 1 & 2, with Ms Pat Chan 

(Photo by Au Xin Ni)

THE PROGRAM BOOK

Design by David C. 

Photography by Celine Letizia & Joshua Wong 

Photos in the program book taken by Nikon D7000

 The Cover Page

 First 2 pages, hey I see me :D

 3rd and 4th Page

 5th and 6th Page

 Last page about Rey :D

If you ask me, I still can't believe that it is all over. When we finished, we had a group hug and to be honest, I wanted to cry. But I didn't want to. Dude, my make up's gonna go all over the place and shit like that. And plus, let's not get all sentimental. I might not see all of them again. I mean this is my last damn semester, I sort of didn't want it all to end. If I could, I would stay in theater for the rest of my life because that is something I really like doing. 

Its such a sentimental and sad post. I mean no one likes goodbyes anyway, and no one likes separation. I always feel this way. I mean whenever I finished a performance, I would miss the days where I would spend hours rehearsing. Somewhere in my head, I would want to go back to the time before the performance, and redo the performance again and again.

I've ran out of things to say, I've got one more post about Rey's feedback to me and Teck Sern, then after that, this blog is shutting down. I feel kinda sad, because I know that I've given in my 110% in this class and now its all over already. It all seemed too fast.

I want to go back to the days where we would have our theater classes and then go out for breakfast.

I'll miss you all, my theater buddies.

On the Right Track

[Wednesday, 18th April 2012]

So it has come to this.

First dress rehearsals.

We have to show Rey what we have done.

Yea.

Scareeehhh...

I was shit scared. I was wearing my costume today, which was a blue sundress and a white cardigan.

Something like that. You can't see the bottom. There wasn't any nice pictures at all of my full body. Damn the low lighting and low shutter speed. All the pictures turned out blurry and shaky. URGH.

Anyway, Filza and Wei Lim went first. OMG. Maybe it was the pressure of being first or it was because they didn't have enough time to practice. They screwed up so badly. I felt so bad for them.

Lih Seng and Valerie went next and then followed by the trio. Lih Seng and Valerie was ok, but the trio. Oh man. I tell you, whenever Adam and Leanne were acting the risk increases. The moment it reached Mohammad, the whole thing just dropped. URGH.

Yea so we went last.

I honestly have no opinion on how we did, but we did it. Rey walked in during our scene to stop Teck Sern from moving so much. And guess what? Teck Sern remembered all his lines!! I'm so proud of him!

So 10 o'clock came and we had to leave because Ms Pat's class is coming in, so yea. So we stood outside as each and everyone gets their review. Everyone's getting below a C. I'm starting to get nervous man ><

Then he came to us. He said we brought in something with us and hence thats why he felt it was a good idea to walk in during our performance. Teck Sern needs to stay more grounded and not fidget so much. Rey said that by fidgeting, he is escaping the feeling. He doesn't like it so that's why he fidgets. He needs to be more grounded.

But the best thing I've heard all day...

HEADING TOWARDS A B!!!!

I'm a happy girl. I mean at the rate we're going, we can make it! :D

I'm so proud of both of us ! :D

Look into my eyes

[Wednesday, 4th April 2012]

I thought we were going to perform our first third today. I guess we're not.

I came early as usual, but was too lazy to make my way to the theater just yet. So I settled around the food court area and was on my computer in a flash.

By 7.40, I made my way to the experimental theater, and by 8, the class was going to start. As usual, I had to call those that weren't in, and Valerie was one of them. I tried calling her 3-4 times and so did Lih Seng. Finally he managed to get through to her, and turns out she's not coming to class. Why? Because she overslept. Damn, how could she be so irresponsible to her own partner like that. I mean, you could see the frustration in Lih Seng's face when she wasn't coming. And it didn't help that Rey kicked him out.

REY KICKED HIM OUT

The poor boy. It sucks watching him, only able to sigh at the fact that he couldn't do work today because his partner wasn't in. All I could do was watch, feeling sorry and gave him a hug, trying to make him feel better. He gave Rey a helpless smile, as Rey explained why and what's going to happen to his attendance that day. The rest of the class, could only watch him left.

But regardless, class must go on. The trio was sent outside to work on theirs. While Teck Sern, Filza, Wei Lim and I was left inside. Rey had Filza and Wei Lim sit as close as possible on a chair. Their feet grounded to the ground and they sat upright, looking only at each other's eyes. Teck Sern and I had to feed them their lines. This was a tough session as many walls were broken down. By the end of it Wei Lim ran off to the toilet as he was having stomach ache. HAHA. No but that's not the point. When Filza was alone, Rey got her to close her eyes and imagined what happened between them in the play. It was such a strong emotion that she actually cried. I wasn't looking at her, but sitting next to her, I was affected. I was angry and I could feel I had a lump on my throat.

Next it was my turn with Teck Sern. We sat closely with each other and look into each other's eyes. Problem is he kept on looking away for a second then comes back, and he has such a bored face that I find quite amusing to be honest. HAHA. But regardless, I felt that I could understand my character more through this exercise. I could feel her sadness, and I began to question why he left me. I actually could feel my face getting a bit warmer. I felt that I was going to cry, but I didn't. It just wasn't strong enough to come out.

The next one was the trio. I had to feed Mohammad's and Leanne's line. They did theirs pretty fast because we were running out of time.

This was some pretty intense stuff going on. Wow. I found things that I didn't find in my character before. But now that I know, I have to dig more to find more stuff about my character so I can portray her better. :)

no, No, NO!!

[Wednesday, 21st March 2012]

NO!! For once I actually don't want to go for theater. Why? Because I personally think our script sucks. I felt so unrehearsed, despite actually practising and spending time with it. URGH!

Well I'm just gonna cut the chase and get straight to the class stuff. Warm up today was different. Pretty fun though. Rey had us walking around in space at first and then made us jump around and move in a crazy way. We all were jumping around like mad people. HAHA. Good exercise early in the morning. The hard part was that we had to freeze at the exact point when Rey said Freeze. Shoot, I'm so bad at this. Thank God I never found myself in some stupid one legged position. Phewww~

Then we had to act like we're drunk trying to walk in a straight line. I think we're all looked like kookoos.. HAHA But who cares?! We were having so much fun. Some of us pretended like we're falling. It was funny. I was saying things like, "I'M OKAY! I'M OKAY!" and pretended like I'm shoving the hands of whoever's giving me help. Haha.

Then we had to act as Burglars. First alone, then with a partner. I partnered with Leanne because she was the closest person around. It was fun though, crouching about and stuff. I could really imagine in my head the dark room, with lights coming out of the edges of the door towards the room. Me and Leanne were hiding behind the couch that faces the door. We peeked and made sure there were nobody around and began moving. It was soooo coool!! Not that I want to be a burglar or something :P

Then Rey told us to change partners and then start something new. I partnered with my own partner, Teck Sern! And if I'm not mistaken we did the whole I don't want to be with you kind of scene. Boring scene. Meh. He then asked us to freeze and gather around Valerie and Adam. Valerie was hugging Adam from the back and Adam seemed like he wants to get away from her. So we had to stand in a circle around them. They started the scene and we had to shout a freeze and somebody walked in. I was so bad at this, I swear. It's either that or I'm just really out of it today. I couldn't do shit in there. Urggghhhh ><. It's like I just blank out in terms of mind and body. Urgh. I don't know how to react or how I want to react. Grrr..

Next thing was our performances. We had 10 minutes to rehearse and stuff. I was rehearsing with Teck Sern when suddenly Leanne called me out. Turns out the comb was stuck on her hair LOL! So we tried untangling it but in the end Leanne just kinda pulled it out.

So the 10 minutes was up and Leanne and Adam went first, followed by Lih Seng and Valerie. Teck Sern and I had to go last. That sucks, especially seeing how the other 2 groups did so well. That doesn't help at all. But we have no choice but to go and do it right. So we did. It was I suppose, ok. Not the best. I mean it went as rehearsed, but I thought parts were bad and needed to work on. Luckily we have our pro director, Rey with us. He re-directed everything, and even made me so called "pole dance". Well the pole wasn't exactly there, but still I had to pretend that the pole is there. HAHA. I was so self conscious. I'm so out of it today. This is not good.

Blehhh, mental note. I need to stop thinking so much and let my body do the talking. Dude it's just theater class. No one's gonna judge you for being sexy for a change. Urgh. Oh wells.

BOOM!

[Wednesday, 14th March 2012]


So its the performance day for our neutral scene. And heck we didn't get the chance to practice much the day before cuz I just HAD to have a dispute with my mum over not picking up my  phone. I mean, we decided that I'll go home at 4, and she called me up at 3. I was still halfway in practice and there's no signal in the ADP classrooms (Thanks Taylor's Thanks =.=), and I received a call whereby my mum started screaming on the phone. OH I really needed that.

So due to the lack of practice, me and Teck Sern met up early in the morning to practice again. Our battlefield scene needed to be worked on. So with the help of Leanne we came with a nice ending to it, although its a bit cheesy.

Leanne was freaking out, because her group mates weren't in yet. But they soon joined us and they practised by themselves while me and Teck Sern did the same thing.

Pretty soon Rey came in, and class soon started. We had to do the usual walk around the space thing and then sit with our partners. I remembered having to give Teck Sern a massage and he had to give me one. LOL man, to be honest I do give my mum massages, but I'm not good at it. So I was like oh shit. HAHA but whatever la its done.

So the next thing we do is to add actions to our lines. That DID NOT, I repeat, DID NOT, work at all. Our scene didn't suit the whole violence thing, instead it turned out as if I was running away from Teck Sern, bleh. And then we had to do our scene and Rey was watching us. And danggg, it wasn't working out. Oh wells, he's the pro.

So instead of making me a civilian trapped in a battlefield, Rey made me a falled comrade. Like our original idea, but I'm the fallen one instead of Teck Sern. Teck Sern then found me and tried to safe me, but I, at first refused. By looking at his persistence, I began to accept him, and allowed me to safe him. I was not prepared for this at all. At first, I couldn't feel the pain in my legs, but the more I practised the more real it felt. But it took me a while. Rey had to actually threatened punching me, because it was so not believable.. ><

After about 5-10 minutes of practice it was time to show our skit. DUDE I WAS NOT PREPARED AT ALL. That amount of practice wasn't enough for me to feel the pain enough to make it real. NO SHIT! I was so not prepared. But heck, we both went on anyway, and there were some plus points and minuses. Minuses was that I should have taken the time to change my decision and make more eye contact then with Teck Sern., and we shouldn't have picked up the rifle. Oh wells.

Oh and he commented about our prop. I shouldn't have used the nerf guns, whoops. HEHE.. Oh wells, we all make mistakes and I'll just have to make sure that I don't make the same mistake again. :D

The Semi-big day

[Wednesday, 7th March 2012]

Semi-big day because its midterms and not finals.

Well regardless I felt OK at the beginning. I had to come early because I have to tape the floor with Leanne and Vhina. Oh wells the work of a stage manager.

Then we ran out of tape. So I had to run to get some more. Thank God the Newspaper shop was open this early, so I just popped in and bought some and quickly finished taping the stage.The lines were not straight at all, but whatever, as long as it looks rectangle I'm good.

So people started coming in. Mohammad and I were just rehearsing on the stage and we had to switch with other people after 1 or 2 run-throughs. Then we simply go through the lines over and over again to make sure we had the flow of the essay.

When Rey came in, we were given 15 minutes to rehearse and then were briefed as to how the midterms is going to be conducted. We were told to pick a number, which we picked 1, and ends up having to go 3rd. Leanne and Lih Seng went first, followed by the trio of Filza, Wei Lim and Teck Sern, then us, and Adam and Valerie ends the scene.

Well I won't comment much on the other's performance. They were all obviously rehearsed well. I liked the ending for Lih Seng's and Leanne's skit, where they said, "bye" at the same time. Adam's and Valerie's were probably the best out of all of ours. I think I would have enjoyed acting in that skit.

Well for ours, I thought it went better than expected. I was more focused than the usual rehearsals, and it felt much more natural than before. But according to Rey I wasn't exactly in character when I first got in. Maybe it wasn't enough.

Rey also said that we played ourselves and that the character were far too close to ourselves. Which I thought was true. Although I'm not a hardcore gamer, I do game, and I am not as girlish as some other girls. So I thought that the character Sera was far too close to myself and therefore I end up playing myself. Damn, why didn't I realize it earlier.

All in all, I think that it could have been so much better and I should have stuck with the first script instead of changing it. It would have been so much stronger than the current script. So I do regret changing the script. But what's done is done and now all I can wish for is to have at least a final mark of B and I'll be good.

By the end of the class, Rey mentioned that we won't be writing our own plays anymore. HALLELUJAH!!! Finally working on actual script. This would be interesting. This is actually the part I'm looking forward to the most. Can't wait to start and meet my new partner :)

Leap year, baby!

[Wednesday, 29th February 2012]

Hey it's they day that comes once every 4 years cool~!

And it comes on Wednesday too! So it means performance day for theater. I feel somewhat prepared, and I felt pretty good about it. I mean, I practiced a lot and I feel pretty good about it.

But that don't stop me from being nervous. Man I never gotten use to getting on stage at all, even though I've been on stage since young.

So as usual, I came in earlier than I usually do to try out my stuff. I didn't want anyone to hear me so I came in early. I practiced for like 10 minutes and Wei Lim came in. Obviously I was too shy to practice in front of him and hence I stopped, and replayed the scene in my head instead. Eventually people started pouring in and stuff. Lih Seng and Leanne joined me soon after and we all started working together. We were reading our lines and trying to remember them.

By 8.30 our class started. Rey gave us the usual briefing and told us that our midterms is coming up. JOY. But we would be working with a partner. Well hopefully I'll get a good partner.

Soon we all started. We started with the warm up, the usual walking around in space. Pretty soon, Leanne, Lih Seng and I went behind the screen and shouted our lines to each other. It felt good actually, in a way. At least it didn't feel weird. Good thing that all three of our stuff was all about being angry and screaming at each other. We went through all our conversation. It turns out that some of our conversation were of the same genre, so it went on quite well.

After 15 minutes of warming up, the performances started. I waited for my turn and it was quite long before I had the chance to go. But I did learn a couple of things such as an apparent change in personality, and paying attention to details. For many people, the same attitude were used for the two different conversation, so there wasn't an drastic change. I kept thinking about mine as Rey was commenting on other people's and I thought that mine had a drastic change in attitude so it was all good.

There was 3 people left and after Leanne went, I had to ask Rey to let me go first. I mean I had to leave at exactly 10, if not my mum would kill me. Bleh. So I went. I felt pretty confident as I went in. I knew I had enough practice, and even got my brother to do it. The only change I made was to actually sit on the block instead of the floor.

Everything went on quite smoothly and I personally think I did better than my single phone calls. In the first phone call especially, I could hear the voice on the other side of the phone. It was pretty cool. He skipped the whole what do you think about it because I had to rush off, and went on to commenting. He thought it was pretty good.YAY! Though he did say that I shouldn't have taken the crossing leg position, as it made me dead from waist down. All the acting only came from the waist up. I'm learning new things everyday ~

I had to rush off as Adam was receiving his comments. Obviously I missed the explanation about the midterms. But I asked Leanne to update me.

An hour later I found out that I had to work with Mohammad. To be honest, I'm not too thrilled about it. Cross fingers, everything goes well.

Calling you, Calling me

[Wednesday, 22nd February 2012]

I just realize how my title sounds like a song, but whatever.

So today is performance day and because some economania people who had an event on Friday removed the tape, I have to re-tape the whole area again. So there I was at 7AM taping the floor again. Maybe I should put in red there DO NOT REMOVE or something like that. I was done pretty quick, so Vhina didn't have to come.

Leanne came in pretty early too. 7.45 and she was in and it wasn't until 8.30 does the class start. So we both started talking and helped set up the back drop that serves as our door. Pretty soon, Lih Seng joined us and others began to join us.

The piano was there from Friday, they hadn't moved it back into the music room downstairs yet. So I started just messing about with it, and Adam soon came and played with it too. Once he was done Lih Seng took over. He started playing Someone Like You by Adele, to which Leanne and I started singing too. Rey soon walked in and well, we had to stop because class was about to start. He briefed us as usual and we had a short warm up and last rehearsal.

Then the performances started.

Valerie was again first. She did a call to Domino's Pizza. I thought that she was better than last week. But she didn't exactly pay a lot of attention to details and could have been better. Slowly one by one went on and performed their own skit. Again I was within the last 5 people to go.

I performed my skit, although instead of using the floor as my bed, I used 3 blocks to make the bed. I thought that wasn't a good idea, and I shouldn't have done that because I was very conscious that I was on a block, and was scared of falling off. I also thought that I could have been better in terms of my projection. Rey said that I did use the 4th wall, but not as much as he would liked it to, which means that I need to look to my fourth wall object more. The walk as well. I should have been more lazier. I didn't really feel that lazy, maybe because of my nervousness. He said he liked the book though, so that would be a plus point.

I need to again work on more detailing and rehearse my skit more. Filza's one was amazing and I see how much that extra rehearsal can pay off into my own skit. So I'm going to go and plan out my upcoming skit that involves 3 people! I actually can't wait to get this one started.

SUCCESS!

[Wednesday, 15th February 2012]

First performance, yes you heard it, SUCCESS! At least I think so, and I was happy with the results.

Today was the day I dreaded the most for the past few days. It was the day of the showcase of our second object exercise, and it was my first time to show the class what I've got.

AND I WAS CRAZILY NERVOUS!

I came early, to sort out the acting space Rey asked for with Vhina, and with the help of Wilson who happened to be there early as well, we managed to finish it pretty fast. By 8 am most of the people came, some whining that they had forgotten class starts at 8.30. Makes no difference for me, I come to college like at 7 am everyday. I have no choice :(

Pretty soon Rey joined us and we began the usual routine. Taking attendance, small briefing and warming up. We had 10 minutes to warm up and I began with walking within the space, trying to get the feel of my upcoming performance. After a few minutes, I began to play with my props, getting use to the feel of it and practicing as if how I would do it if I was up on stage.

Pretty soon, the skits started. Valerie opened the day with hers. I thought it was ok, but majority of the time, she was giving her back to the audience, so I felt that was a little bit of a shame. Lih Seng's one was good, it was believable. As he was massaging his leg/knee, whatever, I could actually feel the pain on his knee as if it was on mine. He had some good sense work, but as he left the stage I didn't know what he was going to do and where he's going. I thought it felt as if like he just has to leave the stage because he has to. Wei Lim's train scene was nice. But I thought it was too draggy, Rey liked it though, but that's just what I thought.

I wasn't called until there were only 2 of us left. It was only me and Teck Sern left to do our skits. Damn I was scared. I didn't want to go last. Luckily, Rey called my name first, so I quickly set up and started my scene.

It didn't go the way I had rehearse it though. I was nervous, my hand was shaking, and my heart was beating very fast. Because of that it was pretty hard to coordinate my hand to put the hook inside the small openings of the knots, and I was I tell you, kinda frustrated. Finding out that I did something wrong pisses me off even more and finding there were tangles on my yarn doesn't help. I tried untangling it and it frustrates me even more that the tangles were unsolvable. GRR. So I stormed off.

Rey didn't comment much. But Lih Seng thought it shouldn't have been so tense and annoyed. But Rey did mention about the feeling coming from the action, which I assume I did. YAY! Another thing that Rey said was that I was focused! I couldn't be happier that I had some good remarks.

But because he didn't comment much, I didn't know what I had to work on. So I came up to him after I packed up and asked what I could have done better. He said that it would have been more interesting if I had actually expected the tangle more and be all like, "Not again", kind of thing. He also added it would have been more realistic if I had looked at the paper more. To add to that, I personally think, that if I hadn't been so nervous I could have done a better job.

Rey presented us with the third assignment. That is, we had to have a phone conversation. We can either give a call or receive a call. I have an idea of what I'm going to do already, I just need to script it and practice it. I'm going to do me calling my mum to let her know I was going to be back late, and don't pick me up at the usual time. She's not happy, so the scene will be about me trying to calm her and work out a solution. Hopefully it'll work.

 A piece by Roy Lichtenstein, one of my favorite pop artist

Rey did gave us some tips that is to listen and give pauses for the person to reply. Majority of bad actors doesn't give space when they are pretending to talk on the phone and it's fake. So I'm going to have to work on the pauses and the length of the pauses. I hope it'll turn out well! I still have to think of what to do when I have that phone call. Because we unconsciously do things when we're having a call such as fiddling with a pen or scribbling things. I'm thinking pen and paper, but those are so cliche and everyone's gonna do it. So I'm going to have to do more brainstorming since we need 3 props, phone not included.

So far I'm pretty happy with today, I just hope that I will improve in my next assignment!