Hi.
12:56 p.m. || 2014-02-08 |
Woke up at 9 on a Saturday morning to attend a talk by Taiwanese director Stan Lai at Esplanade about his show I dream a dream 如梦之梦。From the way he talks and shares, I see him more of like a teacher, a mentor, instead of a famous director. He mentioned that this 8 hours long play is conceived in 1999, in Taiwan University of the Arts where he taught at. He put up a notice about this play having 12 characters and 60 turned up. He said he is not the kind of people to audition everyone and choose the 60, instead he thought that it's fate that 60 came, so he just took in all 60 actors. And I was thinking�damn why weren't I there at that time?!!! Sigh. and then I started missing theatre and TCN like crazy... One of the questions from the audience was how is it like working with actors from Tw, Hk, Sg & China in this play. He said that everyone has different training and methods but ultimately they could all adapt to suit his production. In particular, he is the most comfortable working with Taiwanese actors whereas the Chinese actors had a totally different set of training and it was challenging for them to let go of such training. Yes indeed, the China system of training actors.. and then I started missing the acting classes in Beijing and INSTEP days like crazy� Its been so long. Over the past few years, I have different interests such as traveling and photography. But what really remains as THE passion is theatre. Despite having left the scene and moving on with life, I know that one day, whenever that is, I would love to go back to doing theatre, if I have a chance to. Take for example I would give up a month of traveling to go back to doing a month of theatre. Of course the ideal would be doing theatre overseas.. A close friend (who is older) once told me that people change once they turn 25. I'm almost there and feeling it. But he also said 可是你不會,你那麼愛玩。The me that he met a few years ago, is a crazy girl without a care for the world. A girl who is not afraid of anything except for growing up. A girl full of dreams and actually do stuff. I really like that me. That's the 21 years old me. Hi.
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