Friday, November 10, 2006
the fun thing about drama
what we have done so far in the last few months or maybe the last year has been a really fun and exciting experience.....i mean acting in different shakespearean plays like the merchant, the moneylender and the mistress, different scenes of the ramayana, the midsummer nights dream and many others, please forgive me if i can't remember any other plays we did...not so good memory one lah, hahaha...anyway acting with my good friends has also made drama a fun.....whatever u call it. other than bharathanatyam and odissi, drama has taught me different aspects of acting or in my opinion, what goes on in a person's life. i have understood many things and why we should adapt it in our lives, well maybe because it can help us understand our lives in detail, why we go through sadness, sorrow, happiness, anger and how we can take control of these feelings. i still can't forget the day when we were exploring the CORE OF OUR CHARACTER....hahaha, oh memories do burn calories... well i remember myself talking about my lover, well in the play of course, jessica lah!!!! and how i cried after that...it felt new to me because i had never stimulated myself to cry, honestly, and of course i couldn't control myself......so i learnt a lot of things in drama, thanks to the help of the director, Mr. Lam Ghooi Ket, and my mother, and my good friends...haha special also can say lah....
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you have said it, hari. there is much more which drama can do. using it as a tool, we can examine issues that concern the human being and the society he or she lives in by putting these issues right out there on stage for us to view and to think about. theatre is about truth. it gives us more and more courage about us and about our lives and the society we live in. for many of you, this may sound like serious stuff... but there is a lot of fun too in discovering ourselves and the truth...
Hey Hari,something struck my mind as you were saying hw drama helps you understand all the feelings we go through in our lives and we can learn to control them.What you said reminded me of what i read in the book Tuesdays with Morie(an excellent story by the way)where Morie the guy who is suffering this disease which affects his nervous system starting from his legs and the disease travels upwards.Well,all i can say is this gives him a slow but sure death.Anyway back to the point he tells his student how when he has nothing to do,he tries to experience the most of every good or bad emotions(anger hatred happiness,etc)in detail and recognise the feeling and then come out of the feeling.After that he recognises the cause,the effects, etc of that particular feeling and knows how to keep it under his control.Well, i just realised that drama has been offering us this oppurtunity,the only difference is we share the experience of the feeling with other people.Well, i gtg now.seeya soon
wow, kumaran, this is good stuff - you being reminded of tuesday with morrie, and then sharing your thoughts with us like this. i saw the movie on television, with jack lemon as morrie. it was moving, not overly emotional. if you can watch this movie, or if you already find yourself moved by the story, notice how it does not make you overly emotional. in the movie, it was the restraint in the acting, and of course the directing, that touched me. in our drama work, we need to explore the scope of our expressive capabilities and make choices. we need to be able to overact - ham it up - and also, to perform with subtlety and restraint. in other words, elegance. i hope in time to come, we can work on this aspect.
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