Corpus
An effort of collaborations with Huilin which turned out well =) Well, I don’t know how she feels but I thought we got along pretty dandy, haha.
Our initially title-less play talks about the body in that there is an external self that we portray and an inner feeling we keep hidden from the world. One thing I realised after having heard the plays written for the week was that we all kind of put the theme “body” as somewhat secondary to whatever agenda we had written. Ours well, kind of fell along that line too I felt. Perhaps only Alissa and Marcus’ dark comedy got it right this time.
Another thing I realised, naming of characters is not just a random thing. Well, Huilin and I named ours Mann and Propp, never thinking they could also be mistaken as references to Thomas Mann or Vladimir Propp. Well I’ve heard of the latter from NM classes but I never made the connection till Mr Sulaiman mentioned his name.
The end-of-class exercise was pretty perplexing as in we had to brainstorm ideas for our final play. I had absolutely no inspiration then so I said something pretty generic for my inspiration. I mean, isn’t every other play about love, death and sex, haha? I so got to buck up on that one.
Comedy next. I think this is going to be a tough one since it is the second time a genre is imposed (Previously we had political theatre) and I can’t imagine how to make my class laugh (Comedies have to be funny, duh!) without the use of stage directions (Yes, this was also a requirement)… Good luck to me =)
