amazing grace.
i spent the day walking up and down orchard road a total number of 2 times and got really sick of it. i'm thankful i'm leaving the country and therefore will not be bored out of my wits by the little things there are left to do. tourism thriving in singapore must be a myth that boggles the mind of every singaporean. Singapore got things to do meh?
well, i'm not particularly patriotic tonight, unfortunately.
i have discovered in myself, after finishing True and False by David Mamet for a second, more productive and comprehensible time, that i want to be an actor. increasingly, i think it's not impossible to act. it's about making yourself suitable for the roles that you are often required to play. i still want to work production and backstage, i mean, that's fun, but i think an actor can have alot of fun too. and Mamet is in one word, brilliant. like, bertolt brecht brilliant. he has made acting, to me, seem like something everyone can do. and it's superfluous to judge the acting, whether it's well done or not. like how, last sem we had to do this design criticism thing that made me rather uncomfortable. because while there are principles of good design, you also have to consider the context, the purpose of the whole thing. same for acting i think. perhaps something out of the norm might be esoteric, and be renderred bad, stiff and not worth watching, but perhaps, that performance was taken out of context. i think we have to remember while theatre is a communal experience, it is also an artform, not necessarily always recieved the same way by a different audience.
i feel somehow i might have deviated from Mamet's theory. but i think at the end of the day, Mamet is right: the job of the actor is to deliver his lines, so when that is accomplished, there's nothing else left to do.
so yes. i want to act. and direct, and produce. basically i want to be in every damned aspect of theatre, and learn every damned thing about it i can til kingdom come. :)
right now, i have to go though. i'm not feeling emo so i got nothing to wax lyrical about. :) heh.
California in about a week! woo hoo! :D
i could be anything you like.
i spent the day walking up and down orchard road a total number of 2 times and got really sick of it. i'm thankful i'm leaving the country and therefore will not be bored out of my wits by the little things there are left to do. tourism thriving in singapore must be a myth that boggles the mind of every singaporean. Singapore got things to do meh?
well, i'm not particularly patriotic tonight, unfortunately.
i have discovered in myself, after finishing True and False by David Mamet for a second, more productive and comprehensible time, that i want to be an actor. increasingly, i think it's not impossible to act. it's about making yourself suitable for the roles that you are often required to play. i still want to work production and backstage, i mean, that's fun, but i think an actor can have alot of fun too. and Mamet is in one word, brilliant. like, bertolt brecht brilliant. he has made acting, to me, seem like something everyone can do. and it's superfluous to judge the acting, whether it's well done or not. like how, last sem we had to do this design criticism thing that made me rather uncomfortable. because while there are principles of good design, you also have to consider the context, the purpose of the whole thing. same for acting i think. perhaps something out of the norm might be esoteric, and be renderred bad, stiff and not worth watching, but perhaps, that performance was taken out of context. i think we have to remember while theatre is a communal experience, it is also an artform, not necessarily always recieved the same way by a different audience.
i feel somehow i might have deviated from Mamet's theory. but i think at the end of the day, Mamet is right: the job of the actor is to deliver his lines, so when that is accomplished, there's nothing else left to do.
so yes. i want to act. and direct, and produce. basically i want to be in every damned aspect of theatre, and learn every damned thing about it i can til kingdom come. :)
right now, i have to go though. i'm not feeling emo so i got nothing to wax lyrical about. :) heh.
California in about a week! woo hoo! :D
i could be anything you like.
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