Being used to feast my eyes on whatever that is projected on the silver screen, I've always welcomed a break from the cinema, to watch live acting and performances by real actors on stage. Even though I like theatre/performing arts, I've never always indulge in it too much, because sometimes the entrance tickets could cost you a bomb. But it's always a good thing to watch good plays by your local talents (Ari Ratos rocks!).
The upcoming play in my menu will be Frankenstein in Love, with Rashid Salleh and Patrick Teoh as part of the cast. Playwright is by Clive Barker, the horror writer. Here's the jist of the story:
It is the last few days of the world. Human life has become meaningless as mass genocide and sickness spread throughout the land. Revolutionaries loot and pillage for answers, the faithless betray the faithful, the dead refuse to die and one name stands out amidst the screams...Frankenstein.
A sprawling collection of variations on the idea of human vivisection and reconstruction set in a grim, Gothic world of putrefaction. An unlikely place for love to emerge...but it does, forming a bizarre, tragic love triangle between the creator and his creations.
(more info in the blog and klpac site)
Yummy! Hopefully I won't miss this play. So far I've only watched two theatre shows:
1. Sweet Nothing (2002)
2. The Fastest Clock in the Universe (2006)
The simillarity between these plays is that all of them are have dark settings/background/storyline. It's fun to watch dark shows...
2 comments:
I just watched this last Sun. It was a pretty heavy play and I found the first half rather dull. More of the themes and issues came out in the second half. Stage set was well done. Did you watch it? How did you find it?
Not yet. Watching it soon!
Well, I guess I would enjoy most of the theatre plays that I watch, because all of them are meaningful in their own ways.
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