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Me and Hweeyi
Me and Ronghua [aka beaver]This post is really late because I'm gonna write a review about a play I watched at the DBS arts centre called BOOM last saturday.
Review: The play was about a property agent who dreams of having the place he was staying to be en bloc. The trouble is, the apartment is under his mother's name and she certainly doesn't want to move anywhere. Meanwhile, a civil servant named Jeremiah, who is also a stereotyped scholar serving her bond, is asked by his very 'niao' FEMALE boss to make a cemetery site report. As many characters interplay, several themes appear.
Firstly, the fundamentally different values the older generation and today's generation of young people have. The old mother clings on to her home, despite it being old and ugly, for sheer sake of sentimentality and her son longs for a brand new place, with 'white paint that smells of paint and not sweat'. Secondly, the government's sole interest is to make policies that bring the nation forward and any detractors are to be ignored or squashed. Thirdly, and most obviously in this play, sand in Singapore is more precious then gold.
This play is quite hilarious but not as funny as Pillowman. It's a Singaporean play, so there were several sprinkles of Hokkien and Cantonese dialogue and I couldn't understand them! Ronghua tried to translate for me initially but it was way too disturbing for other viewers, so I had to contend myself with deciphering the body language. It wasn't a big deal anyway. I loved the play. Great set, especially the dead man in front of the stage. However, the old mother played a too familiar role that I see at chinese dramas on Channel 8. Hence, I got a little put off with her emotional acting because it was too cliche.
One thing that I commented to my friends was, plays are getting increasingly expensive, which reiterates my view that the arts are for the rich. How do you expect the laymen on the street to pay $43 dollars for a 2 hour play when he can pay $10 [or less] for a movie? The cheap and free arts are the ones that are usually ignored.
Yes, there is concession for students who want to watch plays but the offered dates are so inconvenient that no busy college student can afford such time!
Nonetheless, that's just the way things are. I just realised that I might be implying that I'm rich, WHICH IS NOT TRUE OK. Talking about money and budgeting can get me going on and on the whole day, so let me not start here. haha.
p.s. My two friends, RH and Hweeyi, are the only JC friends I've really kept in touch with. Tragic? Nah, it's God's blessing that I have actually 2 people I can call friends from JC.
