A lil about the play:
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| Sink your teeth in the forbidden fruit as The Oral Stage unleashes its closing season for 2008 with a sinful anthology of original plays. Inspired by the age-old classification of vices, the seven deadly scenes is a fresh Malaysian take on lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride. After its KL run, the group will perform at The Actors Studio Greenhall, Penang, on the 27th of December @ 8.30pm and 28th of December @ 3pm & 8.30pm. Call TAS Greenhall at 04-2635 400. To find out more about The Oral Stage, visit http://www.theoralstage.com. | ||||||||
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7 different scenes were acted to bring out the 7 sins feeling- lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride... in the room, they used two stage to act.. both at the other end of the room, while audiences were seated at the center and side... it was different from what i imagined....
we had to sit at the floor.... with a mat and cushion provided.... there were about 30-40 people who came.... It's truly a Malaysian style.. with a rojak language altho whole play are in English but still added some Malays and Cantonese words.... and also our so-called-identity with the words -la,-ma after each sentences...
our seating place....
while waiting for everyone arrivals, the actors had to keep posing until the play began
Lust
shows a couple in the hotel room, talking, argue-ing and end up making love..
Gluttony
A marriage couple having dinner, the girl kept eating nonstop.... and only realize she's eating the husband's friend's meat and other parts of body... Apparently, the husband killed his friend cuz found out that there's something going on between the wife and his friend....
Greed
Regarding law.... To win the case, the lady aka politician(?) offers a position in her company with high salary.. in the end Judge pledge the lady guilty, the salary wasn't not good enough for the judge.... encourage them to give more when they appeal for their case....
Sloth
it was a silent(no dialogue) play. with only sounds of people knocking the doors and a girl with a rope around the neck were screaming for survival. the neck at the rope were connected to two people who kept pulling and acting ignorance of the knocking sound.
Wrath
war scene. a soldier was detained and was questioned for killing a lil girl... background, 4 zombies. possessed the soldier(i think) and speak on the soldier behalf about how fulfilling it is to kill the lil girl and etc....
Envy
Two siblings, twins were argue-ing over the loves they received from their parents.... The older 1 was envy over the younger sis for getting most of the attention from both parents and wanted to leave the house....
Pride
A famous coffee maker was furious over a guy who blackmail the coffee maker for knowing his darkest secret in making his coffee. End up the guy got killed by the furious coffee maker who tried to ruin his reputation...
Ended at 10.30pm. Overall the play is not bad... some are quite funny tho.. ^^
the programme book cost us RM3! but the production only cost them RM1.60 (B&W inside-Rm0.60, and 1 colour for cover-RM1.00)
taken for fun... does it gives you certain feel/mood?
furnitures made from "dawai"(?) very painful to seat on it
bro and i
