Individual Performance - 020P2D Asasi TESL 2014/2015

Hello everyone...

So last Thursday, we had our individual drama performance in Angsana Hall, Faculty of Education UiTM Seksyen 17 Shah Alam. A little bit backstory of this event: it is one of our compulsory evaluation for the Language and Drama subject this semester, which means we have to do it whether we like it or not. But of course, we do like it as we get to be ourselves and freely do whatever we want (anything decent lah) on stage.

And as I have mentioned in the previous post, there are 26 different stories written by each and every one of us where we have to perform on stage in front of everyone (including other classes). So, we were given three in-class rehearsals and almost a month of preparations. After each rehearsal, our lecturer will give us comments and suggestions to improve our play and that helps a lot (considering that he is also one of the best drama lecturer here).

Enough talking, let's check out some of the moments we had that day.

Stage freight attacks everyone everywhere... including me.

After-show-compulsory-group selfie!

With Sir Adlan, our lecturer for Language & Drama and also Literature.

What? I want to be in the picture too...

From the left, we have:

Virtuoes as the King of the Fallen

Maya as Rose the Latina ghost

Aishah as Livia the vampire

Jiji as the heartbroken daughter

Azwan as the Malaysian

Me (Ikhmal) as the bedtime story kid

Ainin as Cinderella the untold story version

Luqman as the preacher

Aye as the Fairy Godmother

Asrul as the Youtube Son

Maie as Celeste of the Underworld

Aini as Mr Snuggles

Fika as the White Queen of Wonderland

Hanaliza as the Princess wannabe

Afiq as the sad sister

Mia as the Cinderella the evil queen

And at the second line, we have:

Farah as the Slenderman's proxy

Indah as the girl who thinks men are complicated

Amira as the girl who talks about depression

Nana as the Grim Reaper / Witch

Maryam as the girl who talks about pain

Syamim as the girl who tells a sad love story

Bee as the girl owner of Travolta the antique car

More selfies of course, after the show

With Sir Adlan, who exposed to us the endless possibilities of dramatic performances.

See how most of us still in costumes and suits, and sometimes in characters.

You see, the best thing of learning drama is how you can manifest and express your opinions and stories to others without making it so obvious and direct that it can be too cliche or rather mundane. Well most people said Teslians are outspoken, it is true because we have to be so as we become educators or social scientists one day.

All in all, it was a great day. We all did a very great job entertaining the audience and setting up the bar each time we had our rehearsals from day one. I really am looking forward for the Reader's Theatre (which is a group performance coming soon, another compulsory evaluation of this subject). I'll keep updating about these wonderful moments here and thanks for reading this.

Watch my performance here. It's not that great, due to my inability to be a 10-year-old boy. The descriptions tell everything about my play. Enjoy! (or at least try...)