Sunday, March 30, 2008
th3 play--The taming of a shrew---Shakespeare
Yesterday I was so free and so bored, thus in order to find some excitement I went or this one play entitled "The Taming Of A Shrew". It is one of the master pieces of the father of literature Shakespeare. Well the play was two hours long and it was localized in the sense that there were more Malaysian sort of stuff. Indian dance in between (may be because the choreographer was an Indian guy) and Malay language here and there. This approach was making the audience to feel close to the play (but pity the Iranians who came…they would be stunned by the Malaysian play production). There were certain good actor and actress but some were (….) sorry to say. As for the plot development, I personally think that the script editor should have done her / his job more carefully. I think it should be more prĂ©cised and condensed. They were trying to put in everything inside which makes the play draggy. Audiences were tired before the suspense was revealed/ before the play reach the peak. Some of the audiences went off in the second hour. (It wasn’t that bad anyway!) I like the part where the tamer of the shrew used Russell Peter’s line "Somebody going get hurt real bad". I was laughing like no body’s business! Only than I realized that the rest of the crowd did not get the joke and they were damn quite! Just imagine Russell Peter in Shakespeare’s play but no one laughs over it! I did look like a mad person… hahaha! The prop used were limited but I got the justification from the crew member in her starting speech that they had a financial problem and that is the reason why they limited their props. The theme used only reminded me of my very own play "The Darkness". Everything was white and black simply to show the dark and good side of people. However in this play the put forward the notion that whatever is black does not always suggest bad and whatever is white does not suggest goodness. It can be vise versa! This is very much acceptable. As for the sound projection, overall it was good. But there is a room for improvement. Hmm… I think I can be a good critique… ( I do it all the time) I have touched on all the elements I suppose…There is a play going on in KL PAC…I heard it from from my friend…I will be going to watch it very soon I suppose…J
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