Strangers
A change in seating arrangement for this lesson. Mr Sulaiman sat at the long end of the table instead. But everyone else, stayed where they were.
Simon McBurney’s Mnemonic made me very confused with the stage directions and constant shifting of locations in the plot on the same stage. Hence surprisingly, I found it harder to write the essay than the play this week. But I concur with the class that perhaps one needs to have visually experienced the play to be able to appreciate the reading.
The assignment this week required us to “write a play in which no words are spoken”. It looked very daunting at first. But in a way, I thought it would be quite amazing if I could pull it off. My inspiration this week is my mp3 player. Hence I created Strangers, where the audience was treated to the “sonic landscape” of the protagonist as things happened around him.
Everyone wrote beautiful pieces this week. The lack of words really forced us to be creative, since we had no flowery language to hide behind. Faith as always, had that edgy dark tone in her play. I love it but I don’t think I will be able to write her style. I am just as inspired in that inclination. Sulastri’s had a poem-like feeling and Benita’s as always had us in laughter, as she juxtaposed the supernatural with the real by having a comical version of the Grim Reaper in her play.
The next assignment is one requiring combined effort. I got paired with Huilin. I wonder what we’ll be writing…
