Passion VS Patience!!

1st April,we went to KLPac to watch the play "Passion'.It is created and directed by Joe Hasham.Bold!Seductive!A mesmerizing experience!This is first time I watch the musical play. I was sitting in front because the other seat was full.Near to the stage and near to the actors and actress doesn't satisfy me enough.This is due to the reason that I noticed at the beginning of the play that it is silence play.So,the understanding of the play is depend on the actor's body gesture,movement and facial expression.Stayed there nearly of one hour and 30minutes make me feel bored.Overall, this play is not interesting because it couldn't catch my eyes and my heart.However, I got the new experience through it!

As You Like It

This movie is a romantic movie. In the movie, the setting is in Japan while in Shakespeare’s play, the setting is in England. The movie portrays Japanese culture and attires such as kimono and sumo. It is very impressed to see Japanese culture is being integrated to Shakespeare’s play.

This movie is a romantic comedy. In the opening of the movie, Rosalind falls in love with Orlando but their love fails to grow since Orlando fled to the Forest of Arden. Rosalind follows him with Celia after that as she is being banished from the court. The part which entails comedy arises after both Orlando and Rosalind who is now Ganymede meet. Ganymede helps Orlando to express his love to Rosalind by assuming that Ganymede is Rosalind. The audience knows the fact that Rosalind and Ganymede is the same person but Orlando does not know this. I feel this is the part where comedy emerges in this movie.

After all, I enjoyed this story.This is because it is happy ending.In the end, Rosalind marries Orlando and Aliena marries her lover, Oliver.

A Streetcar Named Desire

‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ is a stage play with elements of tragedy. It was published and performed in 1947. ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ centers on a desolated woman named Blanche DuBois. She lived elegantly in the family homestead, married a man she adored, and pursued a career as an English teacher. But her life fell apart when she discovered that her husband, Allen Grey, was having a homosexual affair. Disgraced, he killed himself. Blanche sought comfort in the arms of other men, many men. After she had relations with one of her students, a 17-year-old, authorities learned of the encounter and fired her. Meanwhile, relatives died and she could not keep up the family home. The play begins when Blanche arrives in New Orleans to stay with her sister, Stella, and her crude, outspoken husband, Stanley Kowalski. Though scarred by her past, Blanche still tries to lead the life of an elegant lady and does her best, even lying when necessary, to keep up appearances. At her sister’s house, there are many conflict appeared and put the pressure more on Blanche. Overall, this play is not boring and the audience keep wondering what will happen next.

How to evaluate peers

It is not easy to evaluate others. Moreover, if our intelligence level is lower than them. There are some criteria that we need to consider in evaluating person. Firstly, we have to look at their performance. I mean the way that they are presenting their work and convey the ideas. Frankly speaking, I saw my friends are good enough in presenting their teaching before. Each of them is success in delivering their brilliant ideas and opinion. Besides, they are look confident although sometimes they use the hesitant language. This is maybe due to the reasons that we have been trained to speak and give comments in front of the audience. It is so great when we can evaluate people because we can learn through them. I feel excited when we are given the evaluation form to give the comments on our friend’s presentation. This is because we are free to give any comment that comes into our mind whether it is irritating or not. Usually, we tend to comment it honestly and our peer has to accept that with so much pleasure.

How to be evaluated

How to be evaluated by others? I think everybody has their own different perspective when they want to evaluate me. Usually, my friends will evaluate me when I have to do micro teaching, but so far I was not chosen yet. There are many ways on how people evaluating someone. For example, through the personality, performance, character traits and so on.
Actually, I will do the micro teaching with my partner, Nor Aini Ab. Rashid. She always told me that she nervous when our tutor, Miss Baiti is calling the name randomly, just like Dr Edwin. Oh my God, like father like daughter. Hehe..Fortunately, we are lucky so far, our name hasn’t called yet. So, we will have enough time to do the preparation for the micro teaching. However, I’m still afraid to do that. Sometimes, my nervousness make me blur and don’t know what to say. Automatically, there were numerous error in my pronunciation and grammar. When this things happened, I think it will give a big effect to me because my friend will think twice whether to say I’m good or not. Honestly, it is not easy for me as I’m rarely using English in my conversation everyday. But I hope, one day I will be able to speak English fluently without any hesitation.
I think that’s all I want to say. Now, I’m just waiting for my turn to do the micro teaching. I hope I will do it fine or much better..

Teiresias

Teiresias is a one of the important character in the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. Teiresias is a blind man who can actually see the fated outcome of Oedipus’ life. This minor character of Tiresias is responsible for foreshadowing Oedipus’ fate, developing the theme of blindness, and also illustrating dramatic irony. Teiresias is able to see the fate and destruction that might be happened to Oedipus. Teiresias uses his own blindness to reveals to Oedipus of his own mental blindness towards the truth of his life. At this point, Oedipus learnt that his sight brings evil, pain and wretchedness in his life.Teiresias also make the reader aware that to see physically does not mean that you can see mentally, as Oedipus clearly displays towards his past and fate. It is ironic that a man like Teiresias who is blind physically can see the suffering and madness that will come to Oedipus in future. Since Teiresias had revealed to Oedipus the past, Oedipus now found the truth of his life and now that he can see mentally.

Reflection on the reality of human life

The poem entitled ‘As You Like It’ by William Shakespeare is the reference of the discussion in class. By looking at the meaning of the poem, I found that this poem actually talking about the circulation of human life. It tells us in right chronological order since he was born and it goes stage by stage; becomes the school boy, the teenager who involved in love, and then he becomes the soldier(young adult stage), the justice(lawyer or judge in his matured adult age). Then, he moves to the next stage which is not been stated in this poem. Finally, he is at the end of his life and the old man got Alzheimer or maybe senility. This poem is a very great poem. It warned us that everybody will get through the same stages.

Reflection on acting lives on stage

In this class, we have been revealed to the acting activity. We are given a very short dialogue and then we have to number the character on our own. By looking at the dialogue, I assumed that the minimum characters are two and the maximum are three. There are some partners which have been randomly called to act in front of the class. To be frank, I do not like that because my heart will beat fast and I feel like there is a butterfly in the stomach. Luckily, my partner and I were not the chosen one. So, basically we learn about stage direction through this activity. An open text can be hard as there are fewer stage directions to guide the actors. Without stage direction, we can’t even imagine how to stand or even where to place the hand. I am also amazed how my friends came out with their own stage direction and perform the play creatively. Some performances are boring; some of them are quite fun and interesting.

Reflection on first lesson

There is no right or wrong in literature. This is the time to start on the new field of literary device. I learn about something new in this course. Here, I was exposed to the introductory of drama such as its history and year that was published. All my friends and I was taught to deal with drama; the type of drama which have been performed since the time of Sophocles, a very long time ago. At first, we are taught how to pronounce Sophocles correctly. This is because many of us didn’t know how to pronounce it. We gain a lot of new inputs on drama such as the tragic and the comedy play. I enjoyed this class so much because I got so many inputs and new terms that used in drama.

Reflection on Questionnaire

On the first day of Teaching Language of Drama’s class, I have been given a task that should be answered about ‘point of view’ used in short stories. I’m so shocked at first because I didn’t expect that Dr Edwin will give that task on his first class. Oh my god! First class in semester 4, and I have to answer all the questions? It is such ridiculous! Of course I didn’t answer them well because I entered the class with empty-headed. I thought that Dr Edwin will give a brief explanation about the course outline, but I’m totally wrong. Our lecturer said he wants to test our knowledge about that subject which was taken on last semester. I think he did it well because after that moment, I will make sure that I’m always get ready in answering his ambush questions.