two more days to my very first paper - environmental hydraulics....
AH.............!!!
Getting kinda nervous...!!
anyway ... i've decided to watch this threatrial performance "First Intimate Contact" <<第一次亲密接触>>.. basically, it's a monologue (in mandrian) performed sololy by our Singapore Radio Station Yes933 FM's DJ - Dennis Chou..
According to Wikipedia.com, a monologue is "is a speech made by one person speaking his or her thoughts aloud or directly addressing a reader, audience, or character".
"In a monologue in a play or film, the speaking actor need not be alone on the stage or scene; however, none of the supporting cast (in theatre or film) speaks.
There are two basic types of monologues in drama:
1) Exterior monologue: This is where the actor speaks to another person who is not in the performance space or to the audience.
2) Interior monologue: This is where the actor speaks as if to himself or herself. It is introspective and reveals the inner motives to the audience. This is also a common device in stream of consciousness writings. Frequently in modern theatre, the actor may deliver the monologue in an "aside" (or a sequence of asides).
Where the character delivering the monologue is alone on stage it may also be described as a 'soliloquy'. Writers such as Shakespeare used the soliloquy to great effect in order to express some of the personal thoughts and emotions of characters without specifically resorting to third-person narration.
It is a dramatic convention that soliloquies and asides cannot be heard or noticed by the other characters, even if they are delivered in their plain view.
A written monologue may contain stage directions for the performer, and might be preceded by information about the monologue's setting. (For example, Samuel Beckett's monologue, Krapp's Last Tape).
The monologue was a significant feature of French classical drama; the monologues of Racine have been highly prized by French actresses, including Rachel and Sarah Bernhardt.
The dramatic monologue is a poetic form not to be confused with the monologue in drama. It was brought to a high standard by Robert Browning. The form is such wherein the poet writes from a speaker's point of view in the form of an address to a listener who does not respond in the poem. The speaker in the poem generally talks about a subject, but inadvertently reveals something about their character. It gives the poet an opportunity to present his subject in direct 'conversation' with the reader (e.g. Browning's Porphyria's Lover) or places the reader as a 'character' to whom the monologist speaks (e.g. the same poet's Mr. Sludge the Medium or My Last Duchess). Such poetry combines the dramatic impact of the stage monologue with the potential of more elaborate and suggestive use of language; on the printed page, where the words can be re-read and pondered, there is the potential to evoke more complex layers of intent and meaning. "
"First Intimate Contact" is based on an adaptation from an internet novelist Cai Zhi Heng's "FIrst Intimate Contact"..
Synopsis:
Usually shy and reserved when it comes to love and relationships, ‘Pizi Cai’ meets a mysterious and intriguing young girl nicknamed ‘Flying Dance’ on the Internet.What started out as something just for fun developed into frequent late-night online chats, and eventually a decision to finally meet up personally.Will this first meeting turn out to be a pleasant surprise, an everlasting regret, or perhaps…?
heard that the comments from past performance of this title were positive..
hmmm..but it seems to me that the story line and its themes are very ordinary, and kinda dull...(haa..cos i dun really like theme of romance..)
but what makes me wanna take the risk to spend my hard-earned $28 on this show, is that this is a monologue. and i'm very interested to know how it's being presented...and also, since it's going to be shown from 19th to 22nd Dec, so i could go watch..! haa....
so, most likely will be getting the ticket after this thursday's paper..and there'll be 20% early bird discount if i were to purchase it within this week...!!
But not going to let my parents know about it..one, they'll think it's a waste of money..second, my mum'll think tat i'll be watching with some guy anonymous to her (which is like...no...i'll be most likely watching it alone..)...third, they'll hardly believe that i'll like such activity...
i love to watch threatrical dramas..and such influence has to be credited to Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" which i studied for English Literature (but this is an American literature, if i'm not wrong) in my sec sch days..
Love Arthur Miller's threatrical works..One of his famous works are "Death of a Salesman"..
But what i'm more interested in his threatrical works are "The Crucible" and "After the Fall"..
"After the Fall" was a coincidence..i read this play during my first three months in TPJC's library..and i simply love of how the play was presented...the plot was taken place in the protagonist's mind..and how the characters related to the protagonist were positioned in his "mind" was brillantly designed and presented...however, this play was not a very popular one, partly due to the unconventional stage settings...
i really hope this play will be presented again....
So anyone has any news of Arthur Miller's plays which are going to be shown locally, do inform me....!!!!
or if there's any more monologue, do inform me too..!!!
THANK YOU..!!! MERCI MERCI MERCI...!!!!
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