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