Lizhi a friend of mine offered us to discover a play in a theatre. Obviously, I said : “YES”. When I was in Paris, Jerome and I often used to go to the theatre. We lived in the famous area “gaieté” near Montparnasse, this place are full of theatres.
Lizhi, Ibrahim, Jerome and I have been to watch a play in a theatre Studio theatre in NAFA during the biggest Little Play Festival, Short Sweet Singapore. The play was composed ten little plays. Each one lasted about 10 minutes. I figured out that I did a lot of progress in listening and understanding : I understood everything! I could understand all the jokes and laugh at the same time than the audience!
I was quite concentrated because at the end each person had to vote for the best little play. The plays deals with serious subjects or everyday life : relationships in a couple and in a family, divorce, wedding, racism, discrimination at work, love, suicide… It was very interesting because players represented native from everywhere : chinese, indian, portuguese, english, canadian,…
My favorite play called “Free Fall”. It spoke about a man who seems really lost in life, he was about to kill himself by jumping from the top of a building and there is a girl who does not to talk and talk. She tried to prevent him from jumping into the void. Then, little by little others persons joined us : a depressed Singaporean student who had a misjudgement at school( a B….), a girl and another man. They have the same objective jumping… It is a little bit tragic but the main player was pretty good with his monologue. I liked as well another play about love (less depressing hihihi). A poetic and lyrical play : a man who can not choose between two women. He loves both : one represents for him the sky and the eyes of the others the Sea. Very beautiful, isn’t it?
It was great to laugh and spend good time. When will we go back?
