Daisy Does Pull it Off

Daisy was an excellent play! RP really outdid itself with this one. A splendidly constructed set with multiple levels, uniforms suspiciously reminiscent of some other top school in Singapore, a wacky Harry-Potter-esque plot, great acting and even stunning special effects. All in all a really smooth production, as compared to Lysis last year. I particularly liked the hockey match scene, rendered in commentary form because they didn't have any space onstage to reenact the real thing. The stageplay there was really innovative. And the cliff scene, Daisy's moment of heroics, was fantastic...with smoke and lights and sound. Really well pulled off, with all the tech. And the treasure discovery scene was positively spooky, with a darkened set, glowing portraits and a creaking door, a looming silhouette...

Well, for all the troubles that they encountered, I must say that they managed to pull of an impressive show last night. Exceeded all my expectations. It was a comedy with a different flavour...not so over-the-top slapstick, like Cash on Delivery, but more...I don't know, refined? It had a coherent plot at least. And the characters were still hilarious. Heh, I think the toady should get a special award for being so positively hateful. I felt a positive wave of nausea when she first appeared on stage. How...delightfully revolting =P

And there were signs of love everywhere...the set was splendid, completely hand-built and hand-painted. Little touches, like the nicknames of the crew on the honours roll and the names painted on the spines of the books in the library, were all testament to the effort and toil that went into the production. Watching it from the audience, it felt like everyone loved this production more than they loved Lysis. But of course, from the audience's point of view, you can't see all the politicking and whatnot.

Oh well, but it was a great night at any rate. My hat goes off to the Players. I for one was thoroughly impressed. It's a nice surprise to see all my prejudices and expectations being smote to smithereens in one shot =)

Anyway, in just over an hour's time I'll be checking in at the airport, then it's off the Bangkok. I can't say that I'm overly thrilled...there hasn't been time to build up. But I do hope that it will prove to be fun. My digicam unluckily chose yesterday to conk out, so I'm reverting back to my primitive film camera, that doesn't even have a zoom =S But ah well, I expect I'll rely on other people's charity when it comes to photo-taking then. Here too, I wait to be surprised. Tentatively looking forward. But what could go wrong? Going there with old friends and old classmates, it's not like the whole social structure will have to be built from scratch.

One thing that's exciting, though, is that we're going to a city where everything will be in a truly foreign language. It's been a long time since I've actually gone somewhere where I couldn't speak the language. It should make for interesting interactions, I must say =P When faced with the problem of communication, people come up with all sorts of ingenious solutions...

So going off for one week...see you guys on the 3rd, when we'll come back. Once more, onward, my friends =)

pondered by phoenican @ 29.5.05