Where Mediocrity isn't so Mediocre.
Been out on plays marathon. Yup yup. Watched Mediocrity on Friday and After The End on Saturday.
And yes, I watched it alone.. I decided that if I were waiting for someone I might end up missing the Fringe festival and would screw up my assignment. I would still wanna watch a few other shows.. So we'll see. Lol! Its funny how theatre is dirt cheap here and on top of that, I'm on concession rate. MUAHAHAHAH~!
Its really different. As in when they say Caution: Nudity/sexual content, it really did mean that their actors will walk around naked and maybe about to have sex right there on stage. LOL! If they did, then it wouldn't be a play anymore. It'll just be porn; with a really long roleplay. WAHAHAHA!!
So I was at Bakehouse Theatre. Its a quaint little house like building, greyish black walls with bright red windows. Audience capacity isn't much just enough to have a cosy setting. But its a 15minutes walk from Victoria Square. Which is ok but if the sun is scorching, it might just be alittle painful. LOL! I like it there at Bakehouse Theatre.
I also like the fact that a play here doesn't necessarily have to be 24scenes or 2hrs long like the standard showtime back in singapore. Mediocrity was 30mins and it left an impression more than any 2hrs show i've watched.
Its cool how some of the audience are actors and in the midst of mingling while waiting for the house to open, they receive a phone call from a director and VOILA~! they're suddenly booked for an upcoming productions.
Its like the bustling life of Moulin Rouge.
Mediocrity was a show about everything Mediocre, nothing out of ordinary, so much so the characters are depicted from normal everyday people. The main character (for eg) have done nothing much in his life other then exist. He gets bullied by his wife, neighbour, boss and even his doctor. He gets puts down, lost all self confident and he finds solace in coffee. The one beverage he enjoys while sitting at the table and staring blankly into space.
He suddenly found release with death. When the doctor diagnosed that he might die, he gleefully took it as his escape (not initially but little did he know, the doctor has his name mixed up with someone else's. LOL!)
After the End was something about this guy who is mentally unstable. he was obsessed with this particular girl whom he claims the love of his life that he actually kidnapped her when she was sleeping or drunk or watever it is into this underground shelter and told her that there was a nuclear explosion up there and she cannot leave or open the hatch or the radioactivity will just kill of them.
Twisted but nice. Some thing is just not right about it and I cant seem to pinpoint what it is coz 90mins was DAMN LONG! i nearly did fall asleep.
Thanks to my blog entry, i might just be half way through my assignment.
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I bought a local band's cd. It was interesting, music arrangement and all. I was kinda approached by it. I think I give this music student vibe or something coz this is not the first time. Haiz.
But anywayz, the music was good. So i bought it. The band is called - A Sound of Mind.
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