Been watching some good stuff
Monday, November 05, 2007
Recently have been on a row watching unintended yet excellent shows.
Sat afternoon was spent with Kim watching
Good People, a play written by Haresh Sharma. It was at The Necessary Stage Black Box, which is all the way in Marine Parade, in some godforsaken basement with no carpark and very visitor-unfriendly, but we made it nonetheless after frantically tearing coupons at some shabby HDB carpark and running (well not exactly) towards Marine Parade Community Centre while receiving two, not one, calls from the organisers demanding whether or not we were going for the play.
So we were only about five minutes late for the show but they made us wait another ten minutes for a suitable blackout to let us in. At this, Kim and I stared daggers at the lady holding on to the latch of the door. Kim even managed a weak and hopeful smile at her, in the hopes of letting us in.
Fat hope obviously.
The atmosphere could be described tense, maybe not as tense as the one inside, but we were getting slightly impatient already.
Anyway we went in to discover we didn't miss much, meaning we could still follow the story.
Good People was intense alright, we had this
angmo guy in front of us who kept sniffing and reclining his head back to keep the tears from falling (well he was in the front row after all). Kim and I, who were already slightly cranky from the being late part, were made moodier. It was slightly depressing watching a play about people wanting to die.
It felt a bit like Beckett's work, only in the local context and probably less extreme, but I had no doubt about how it mirrors reality, which possibly made us even more disturbed than we already were.
Today was dragged by Tammy to watch
Molière, a French film which I've been wanting to watch for some time but didn't have the chance to (actually the greater reason was that I'd probably have to go by myself and I was kind of lazy), and coincidentally Tammy asked me to watch today so I went, despite a cold coming on and all.
Well, no regrets here of course, I would even watch it again by myself because I really thought it was very interesting, one of the better French films I've seen in months.
Of course, the other fun bit of sneaking off after work to town to catch a movie was well, the sneaking off bit.
Heh I know I can be a bit of a prick sometimes, but I really enjoy watching something with not so many people in the same theatre/room as me.
Molière consisted of a range of excellent actors, which was required because well, it's about the life of Molière, the famous 17th Century French playwright, and so there were a lot of the "play in the film" kind of thing. It also had a great sense of humour, seeing how Molière excelled at comedies.
So by the time it ended, I was gearing for more. Damn, I really must get the DVD (well, that's another one on my long list of wanted DVDs).
And did I mention that after
Good People, Kim and I proudly emerged with not one, but two local plays each, one a collection of plays by Chong Tze Chien and the other,
Off Centre by Haresh Sharma?
Well, I left thinking that we must be one of the few who can go to a play and still end up buying something one way or another.
And I'm not even talking about
Phantom souvenirs here. Hur hur.
7:23 pm
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