After five hundred million years of sharpening my axe for my play, i have executed the play efficiently. It was fun. Many of you will be thinking, what play is is? Well, its my romeo and juliet play. It was very very challenging, as we had to overcome a lot of challenging and tough obstacles to get to the destination. Also, we had a great deal of fun. Firstly, I shall hereby start with my group's overall performance during the play. We had practised it tons and tons of time and the amount of time we practised could add up to be an infinite number. It was tiring and from nothing, we became everything during the actual performance. My role was romeo for romeo and juliet and I found it stupid as it is so difficult to kiss. But thanks to it, i learnt how to fake kiss which will definitely be of great use in the future. Basically, my group did very well and i would tell you the reason for this successful story. My groups had a lot of different type of people, ranging for people who are quiet like melissa, and amanda, to noisy ones like shun hui. Also, we had shaun, whose hand will tremble so badly like there is no tomorrow(even if there is) if heavy weight if applied to him. So, narutally, my first priority would be getting his problem fixed, as it would definitely ruin of play if the drinks he carried( by the way his role is a serving man if you do not know) would spill, it will be embarassing. So, we tried tons of different ways but to no avail. Then, on the actual day, I told him to breath in and out and relax, and he did. And during the performance he did not shiver, and i was so proud of him. I was as proud as a mother who has a kid with the brain as big as Albert Einstein. For other people like Melissa and etc, i did not worry too much about them, as they did great during the performance, just that more expression needed to be touched up. Also, the director(Dawn) was really good, as she managed to get everyone to get together to rehearse, and did whatever stuff we needed to do for our play. And, amazingly, we managed a great job during the play.
There is always a lot of reasons behind each successful story, and i am going to share with you mine. Firstly, during the june holidays, we didn't even cared and carried on with out life. Until the middle of term 3, only we started to rehearse and do stuff. At first, it was very very hard to get everyone to do or gather everyone to meet as each of us has our different commitments, but thank god, our group was good, and everyone tried to find time to do stuffs. Even if they did not come, they will try the best to find out from other group mates what was going on on the day they were absent. Then, first we started practising part by part, then a major problem arose, i was not able to get the perfect angle for kissing. So, i can't possibly to get Vanessa(juliet) to rehearse with me. Therefore, i decided to change target. This time i prey on Qi Hernq, also, when i set my eyes on that target, it never gets away, until i am done with my target. Therefore, with this, i went to practise my angle of kissing with Qi Hernq, i kissed, and kissed, and kissed, and after 2 hours, he could'nt take it and went to rest. And, unfortunately, i still did not perfected it. I pity Qi Hernq as he had to undergo tough trainings of kissing another guy. He, then, as expected, got really depressed about kissing another guy, and went to sit at one corner, feeling lonely. I bet he will have a nightmare when he sleeps the next few days. Then, as days passed, unexpectedly, during one of the performance, I naturally emerge success by learning how to kiss narutally. I was very happy, as i finally got the hang of it. Therefore, we continued to practised and as days passed, we got really good at it. The few days before the performance was crucial. I had severe butterflies flying around my stomach like it its made up of flowers. Therefore, we rehearsed quite a few times before the actual day. Like they always day, before the actualy day, we should all sharpen our axes. However, on the performance day everyone was tense, and was nervous, therefore, i got a little scared and fortunately, we did not panic or blurt our line during our play. Also, while watching other groups, our backdrop fell, and we had to paste it back. It was definitely not an easy job, as it has a height of at least 2.2m. It was as high as my parents when i was 3. It look very big and it dropping out before the play, was not a good idea. So, before our play, we tape it here and there, tape it everywhere, and luckily for that 10 minutes of performance it did not dropped, and we were so happy. We really did great and I was proud of everyone.
Lastly, I would strongly reccomend this play to the juniors as this play really exposed them to new environments like acting and memorising lines. I believe most of them will never expect this to happen. Therefore, it will definitely be very fun trying something new. Also, it will bond them towards one another as they get to work with one another. You can also, experience new things like public speaking and stuffs like that. They will learn a lot of good stuffs through this play, which will help them in the future.
Sharpening my axe before the play was really an important role in helping me achieve higher marks. It is definitely way better than going to the actual performance without any idea or rehearsals to tell us what to do.Was my group perfomance great? Without a doubt, great. Why? We did not do very badly, and our performance during the actualy day was better than expected. When you eliminate all the imposibilties, whatever remains, however impropable, must be the truth.The truth is that, we did exceptionally well, and this play is something that will always be remembered.
