The title shall be explained in due time.
Today was Founder's Day Rehersal, and boy was it hard. The Prefects and Student Council were mobilized throughout the compound, and as a Crowd Control for Year 1, I had to be high on heels to make sure every Year 1 student made his way to the corect patch of (fake) grass in the astro turf, correct stairway to go to the New Audi, correct line of chairs to sit on in the Audi and much more. And the real thing would be even tougher! Oh, well...
Okay, maybe I'll just explain things now. You see, the last lesson for today was Lang Arts A, and we were suppose to do a role play for Act 2 Scene 1 of A Mid-Summer Night's Dream, and these were the actors chosen:
Puck - Justin
Fairy - Faraaz
Oberon - Shiladitya
Titania - 'Darkness' (He asked for his identity to be kept secret. But rather obvious, ain't it?)
Demetrius - Michael
Helena - Raemiguel
Yup. I was chosen for Helena. To tell you the truth, as an ex-Act 3 Academy member, I'm always excited whenever there are role plays but after watching fellow classmates act out Act 1 in their 'dull' manners, started loosing hope in the fun of acting comedy to a live audience. Then this day just had to involve me into the play! I placed a Poker Face on the outside, trying to hide the joy-screaming jumping melting boiling hyper-active soul inside me. For those who don't know, MSND is suppose to be a comedy, or rather an old-fashioned sitcom of the Elizabethean Era. And the particular period which Demetrius and I had to act out in the scene was rather humourous, especially with the fact that both actors are male.
So the play begins: The first part of the story was rather normal - plain and simple reading-from-the-book storytelling. The middle part spiced things up a little with 'Darkness' acting as Titania. Both characters do not match each other too greatly that the irony of him playing the role sent the class roaring in laughter! Not to forget the moments when he had to say things like:
What, jealous Oberon! Fairies, skip hence:
I have forsworn his bed and company.
Or
Then I must be thy lady
Or even the part where he had to read a total of 37 lines! Rather hilarious, I must say again. Priceless.
Then came my part with Mike. For those who don't know, our scene involved the entrance of Demetrius and Helena into the woods. Demetrius' intentions to enter into the scene was to search for his promised fiance Hermia and her lover Lysander, who've ran away from Athens to escape from the forced marrige that would seperate their love lives. Helena told Demetrius about the plot in the attempt to be wooed by him and gain his affection. So here goes:
Enters DEMETRIUS, HELENA, following him
DEMETRIUS (Michael)
I love thee not, therefore pursue me not.
Where is Lysander and fair Hermia?
The one I'll slay, the other slayeth me.
Thou told'st me they were stolen unto this wood;
And here am I, and wode within this wood,
Because I cannot meet my Hermia.
Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more.
HELENA (Me)
You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw,
And I shall have no power to follow you.
DEMETRIUS (Michael)
Do I entice you? do I speak you fair?
Or, rather, do I not in plainest truth
Tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you?
HELENA (Me)
And even for that do I love you the more.
I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius,
The more you beat me, I will fawn on you:
Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me,
Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave,
Unworthy as I am, to follow you.
What worser place can I beg in your love,--
And yet a place of high respect with me,--
Than to be used as you use your dog?
DEMETRIUS (Michael)
Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit;
For I am sick when I do look on thee.
HELENA (Me)
And I am sick when I look not on you.
DEMETRIUS (Michael)
You do impeach your modesty too much,
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not;
To trust the opportunity of night
And the ill counsel of a desert place
With the rich worth of your virginity.
HELENA (Me)
Your virtue is my privilege: for that
It is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;
Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company,
For you in my respect are all the world:
Then how can it be said I am alone,
When all the world is here to look on me?
DEMETRIUS (Michael)
I'll run from thee and hide me in the brakes,
And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.
HELENA (Me)
The wildest hath not such a heart as you.
Run when you will, the story shall be changed:
Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase;
The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind
Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed,
When cowardice pursues and valour flies.
DEMETRIUS (Michael)
I will not stay thy questions; let me go:
Or, if thou follow me, do not believe
But I shall do thee mischief in the wood.
HELENA (Me)
Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field,
You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius!
Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex:
We cannot fight for love, as men may do;
We should be wood and were not made to woo.
Exit DEMETRIUS (Michael)
I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well.
Exit HELENA (Me)
Just imagine lots of drama and humour, and that was how we performed. The class was laughing off their socks, and we were so good they even asked Mdm for an encore of our part of the play, and even Mdm agreed! So Mike and I gave them something even better: Him with a Scottish accent, I with a more 'seductive' character. Everything went very well, with Mike's impressive replication of a Scott and I acting bits of humour into my parts like
Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me,
Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave,
where I literally kneeled down and acted as if someone was slapping me while discribing the ways Demetrius could torture me, and also when I said,
The wildest hath not such a heart as you. (Seductive "Meow!")
and also this part:
Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field,
You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius!
Your wrongs do set a scandal on my...
(Seductive pose)
...Sex!
Oh, the good ol' days are back again! Just like the times whe I was known as 'Mr. Bean' back in my Upper Primary-Nanyang dayz! I shall now see how far I'll be chosen to volunteer for other role plays...
To keep this post short, I'll just limit what else that happened today to Michael's request for me to make a logo for our 'company' in BizWorld. Here's what I created:
Like it?
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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