4:48 Psychosis

We went to KLPac to watch Gavin Yap's 4:48 Psychosis. It was my first time to watch a play. Before watching the play, I read the programme book, as well as some articles and reviews on the play. So, by understanding the background of the play and also the playwright, I was able to feel that watching the whole play was a 'trip through a mind'. The play was basically about a depressed nameless women who undergone a lot of medical treatments and in her mind, she tortures herself with thoughts of confusion, anger and insecurity. Simultaneously, I can feel what happens to a person's mind when they suffer a psychotic breakdown. Since the play was the presentation of those which happens in mind, we ended up watching a play in a dark room, and there's not much of the use of lights. And when we asked Gavin Yap why he did not use any props for the play, the simple reason was because it is something that happens within one's mind, thus, no props are needed. We were so lucky that it was the final performance of the show and, after watching the play, we had the chance to talk to the director, Gavin Yap and one of the casts, Susan Lankester. A group photograph with the director, Gavin Yap

Pygmalion-The movie

And so, we have finished reading Pygmalion in class. It was a great opportunity to get to watch Pygmalion the movie after reading the play. I was able to recall some of the lines while watching and understand the plot well. For me, the slight change in the plot at the end of the movie had given me a clearer reason of why the play is 'A Romance in 5 Acts'. Besides that, I get to know the actual sounds which Eliza had made. The movie was able to give me a better understanding of the play, because I get to see everything written in the text being brought to actions. The actors in the movie managed to portray the characters described in the play. The scene which I like the most is the part when Eliza met Higgins for the first time. Higgins imitated the way that Eliza speaks, and he managed to repeat the lines with the exact pronunciation as hers. It was quite a pity that our class brought the incomplete version of the text. So, while reading the play in class, there are some missing scenes. Only later, we managed to get the unabridged copy of the play. But this does not help much because we have to read the missing scenes in the earlier parts of the play on our own. Thus, this play was a helpful way in refreshing the sequence of events in the play i.e. what event happens after each scene. It was a classic black and white movie, yet I enjoyed watching it.