Readers' Theatre Final Performances - 020P2D Asasi TESL 2014/2015

Hello everyone! It's already the end of the semester! Kyaaaa~~~!

I am so glad that I finally finished my classes and lectures for this whole wickedly tiring and challenging semester, thus the end of my foundation program. Well, there's another week for final exam (in which I should get ready to study and all, but instead I'm writing this post) and I can't wait to attend this one glamorous event at the very last day I'll be in UiTM.

Coming back to the main subject here...

So, last Wednesday [25/3/2015], we had our Readers' Theatre final performance in Angsana Hall, Faculty of Education UiTM Seksyen 17 Shah Alam. For those of you who do not know what is Readers' Theatre, here's a definition given by Wikipedia:

1. Readers Theatre or Reader's Theater is a style of theater in which the actors do or do not memorize their lines. Actors use only vocal expression to help the audience understand the story rather than visual storytelling such as sets, costumes, intricate blocking, and movement.

Readers' Theatre is part of our compulsory evaluation for the subject Language and Drama this semester. It's the second part of our activity; the first one would be individual performance. I wrote about it in the previous post. Link is here.

While the individual performances solely rely on each student's stories and characters, Readers' Theatre is more to a group work. You are being placed in groups among your classmates and either given a script by your lecturer, or have to search or make your own. In our cases, we were the former.

We had three in-class rehearsals and multiple practices outside the class. We had our practice almost everywhere: in colleges, in other people's faculty (Faculty of Engineering, thank you so much for lending us your complex), in our own faculty compound, under the trees, inside classrooms.... Phewww it was so tedious, frustrating and tiring too. But at the same time, we had so much fun, exploring different kinds of perspectives towards the story as well as developing characters suitable to convey the story.

Well, here are some pictures of our final performances in Angsana Hall:

My group and I as a bunch of old people telling a story

Happy moments with my classmates after the show

A group photo with one and only remarkable lecturer, Sir Adlan. Thank you sir for every comments, suggestions and ideas you gave and inspired us!

Well..... I didn't expect those faces. Hahahahahaha

For your information, there are 5 groups in our class and 5 different scripts and plays. Originally, we were to act out the original script, but seeing the endless and limitless possibilities to alter reality, we were granted the privilege to 'screw up' a bit the original script, and came out with lots of gimmicks, witty puns, naughty ideas and hilarious ad-libs and jokes.

Those 5 plays are:

I was super happy and satisfied with each other's performance. Everyone was the bomb! I hope the audience were happy watching us. The other classes were great, too. Their stories, their actions, their costumes, their characters - totally awesome!

And that's all for today folks! We've come to the end of this Asasi TESL program. Just another week to strive for our final exam and off we go, 5 months of nothingness until September comes and we come again for our degree program of our choice, hopefully. 

Here are the trailer and the full video of our performance: