Neighbours
Wow! I got a much better grade for my essay than I had expected. On the other hand, that last play I wrote was slightly under.
I think our official class size is 8.
Dario Fo’s Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! was hilarious with the pickles and fake pregnancy. If Mr Sulaiman had not stated it was a political play, I don’t think I would have been able to see the political side of it. The essay I wrote about it was all over the place with no logical sequence in the points I was making. But who knows, I might just score well for the essay again, haha.
2 friends in a HDB flat discussing about the world outside of them. My play was inspired by the constant talk that we don’t talk to our neighbours and kampong lifestyle was better because it was communal and everyone looked out for each other. Unfortunately, I neglected one of the characters, Ee Chong, and he seemed like just a “mouthpiece” in the play. Sigh… I guess I could say political theatre is simple not my cup of tea but that is such a poor excuse.
Everyone had to present a list of political issues they were concerned with. I remembered Ms Cardoza’s comments that “everything is political” and Mr Sulaiman echoed that some social theorists think so too. The most common one topic brought up was the 377A act and I guess Singaporeans generally came up with the same issues. Alissa, who was from Malaysia, had very different ones from us. She addressed political issues as in politics among the policymakers. In my opinion, she wrote one of the best plays this week, making very endearing characters comical and yet getting the political message across.
I hope I never come across some politics-themed question again =)
