{"id":856,"date":"2007-05-01T06:04:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T06:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=856"},"modified":"2014-12-14T11:16:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T11:16:48","slug":"this-play-is-screwed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=856","title":{"rendered":"This Play Is Screwed"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 22nd of April 2007, I headed down to sunny KLPAC to catch Screwed<\/a>, a production by The Oral Stage. Screwed is a bunch of plays written and acted by young thespians.<\/p>\n


\nBefore that, however, was the pre-show!<\/p>\n


\nLoonies escape and roam the entrance!<\/p>\n


\nOut comes the hot nurse. “Oi get back in the wards!<\/zi>“, she screams.<\/p>\n

The plays begin.<\/p>\n


\nThe Color Green<\/b>, written by psycho happy bunny who thinks she can dance Davina<\/a>. I cannot help but think that the piece was written around the classic expression Prakash is to deliver in this play. Still, that expression warrants an entire piece heh.<\/p>\n


\nOf course, she also wrote in some interesting scenes for us…<\/p>\n


\nThe Tortoise And The Hare<\/b> featuring that hot nurse and Emily<\/a>. This play seemed relatively adult and corporate compared to the previous plays in Rojak!<\/a> and fiftynineminutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nThe Silent Piece<\/b>, featuring Wai Yee and Wai Min.<\/p>\n


\nMy Beautiful Regret<\/b>, which shows Branavan delivering a powerful, angry monologue. He is also not the usual comic relief we’d come to expect, the typecast nerd, the beating boy.<\/p>\n

I’m sure there are some who’d love the piece to be delivered shirtless by the writer himself, Gavin Yap.<\/p>\n


\nThere’s always the customary bleak piece by Rauf Fadzilla. The Big Joke<\/b>. One of the actresses explained it to me, and I am grateful.<\/p>\n


\nNick Davis pops out in rage.<\/p>\n


\nHow I Lost My Identity In 10 Minutes And Other Matters That Don\ufffdt Really Matter<\/b> also featuring him and Wai Min in a much lighter piece about bananas. I love the humor pieces, I really do.<\/p>\n


\nGary Ooi plays an English professor in this one. Hilarious! (He, too goes against being typecast as a sullen guy.)<\/p>\n


\nThe Murukku Conspiracy<\/b>, about an Indian marriage. I wondered for a while if Christine Ellis (on the left) was half Punjabi myself. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n


\nThe smell of SKL permeated the air.<\/p>\n


\nDoreen Loo in the loo for Toilet Talk<\/b>, a hilarious uh… not exactly monologue, since she is technically on the phone dishing out advice while taking a dump. “Hah? What tunnel? Where got tunnel?<\/zi>” Classic!<\/p>\n

There was also M For Magenta<\/b>, a play about a player screwing two lesbians (one his future wife, the other, the wedding planner), ironically played by Gary, who I suspect may have started writing the play around the line “Oh, sometimes I wish I was gay!<\/zi>” (Or something like that.)<\/p>\n


\nThe Untitled Choral Piece<\/b>, about road safety, even funnier than Rojak’s (no?) smoking campaign. Wai Yee did one of those Japanese anime expressions by touching her index fingers together and I found it so cute! (I normally get very annoyed by anime expressions.)<\/p>\n


\nBrana as Samy Vellu giving a speech…<\/p>\n


\n“Kadar tol naik lagi…” (Spot Prakash doing yet another classic expression!)<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you knew about this a bit too late, or came late and missed the first few plays, (which is sacrilege in theatre culture) you’re not too late. You can still catch this in The Actors Studio Greenhall, Penang!<\/b><\/p>\n

When and how much?<\/b> 8:30pm 4th-5th May 2007, 3pm 6th May 2007, RM25 (RM15 for students, senior citizens and the disabled). For reservations call 04-2635400.<\/p>\n

Oh and thanks to a certain friend with big Indian eyes for the tickets! \ud83d\ude09 May your PSP never hang again with the blessing of the people on its wallpaper!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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