Another Country

13 June 2015, 8.30pm @ DPAC 

Directed by Malaysia's Jo Kukathas and Singapore's Ivan Heng. 

Is another type of performing art in my life. A text exchange performance with Malaysian actors performing Singaporean texts and vice versa. Previously, I went to KLPAC for the show called "Ancient Inscriptions". It's a nice dancing performance about the history and the evolution of chinese characters. What make these two shows so different yet so alike is the way they performed. They tend to communicate with audience by using facial expression, voice and body language in live, so this is what we called performing art. 

My feelings and thoughts

I was so shocked during the Daulat: Long Live scene. Not only that particular scene but the whole show actually; they presented the stories without any boundaries. I was thinking "No censorship one meh? What if people complain their content? " Question after question. 

I absolutely agree with Ting Hui: "Then, I came to realization that politics often draw borders and divide people, but arts portray emotion and unite people by making connections in between audience, actors and the content of the art. It's fascinating to think theatre plays a crucial role in changing the way how the society think." We actually know what's happening in our reality and this critic becomes so true especially when you can hear the crowd's laughter on that night. What I can conclude from this is....We are so Malaysian. The typical Malaysian. Laugh but no action

The most memorable scene

Many of us love Mama Looking For Her Cat -written by the late Kuo Pao Kun (1998) simply because of their acting and the language used (Hokkien and Tamil). Actually, this script is about the communication difference between a mother and her children which reflecting Singapore's multilingualism and multiculturalism.  This has portrayed the estranged relationship in the society. 

Many more issues can be discussed based on the show. Anyway I like the actors so da laaaa photo! (just gt two here hehe XD)

Ice with Ghafir Akbar and Alfred Loh

2nd Lecture and Tutorial 16 June 2015 

Film VS Drama?

Film

-recorded

-technical effect (editing)

-indirect contact with audience

-play with camera angle

-one narrative

Drama 

-live, immediate  

-direct contact with audience

-more exaggerate (depends on the audience response)

-change scene/section

Catharsis  is a term introduced by Aristotle, the Greek philosopher which means the process of relieving strong feelings after being entertained. Well, we said "Another Country" refuse to obey the Catharsis theory because the directors want us to question about it. We did not achieve our satisfaction with the more than-one narratives which we didn't expected/controlled. 

Revise [Another Country] 

Malaysia team VS Singapore team

Malaysia team changed different clothing and they are more energetic compared to the Singapore team perhaps they intended to bring up the atmosphere. Also, they acted irrespective of race, gender and religion whereas Singapore team act accordingly to the race, gender and religion. Singapore team performed in the same space which did not involved much movement compare to Malaysia team who go in and out of frame.

Let's review one of the play Forever Singlish. The actors mentioned this "Proper English? So lehcheh, so correct, so actsy for what?" Despite this, I feel that it is still considered broken English, same as Malaysian's Manglish. *hahaha face palm