Awesome Performances

It had been almost 1 year and a half since I last attended a good theater performance. The last show I have watched was the Ancient Inscription performed at KLPAC in October 2014. 

Last weekend, I have watched another good show from Five Art Center which was the Baling Talks. Thanks to the chance given by Dr Carmen as it is quite difficult for me to attend a drama or theater performance in KL.

I have to confess that, I am less likely to watch historical related drama performance, I'm more into fictional or abstract drama show. The Baling Talks surprised me though.

The Baling Talks directed by Mark Teh, The performers are Anne James, Fahmi Fadzil, Faiq Syazwan Kuhiri and Imri Nasution. The interesting part I like the most was the changes of characters among different performers. Generally, the drama performance I have watched in the past have fix characters, only few performances play with the switching characters, which can be seen in this Baling Talks. I enjoyed the different feeling and acting from different performers with the those characters. Every performer had their own ways of talking, walking, eyes expressions with different characters. However, among those performers and characters, I was more impressed from the performance from Anne James when she acted as Tunku. It did not show any strange or odd feeling as a lady plays the Tunku role. It was pretty awesome and I like the way she 詮釋 (as in define) herself as Tunku. 

Other than that, I like the space they created as in the 壓縮空間 which likely a compacted space from the arrangement of history books on the floor and the photograph hang on the grid. 

Nonetheless, The Baling Talks wasn't the first mobility show (流動環境劇場) I have watched which audiences have to move around from space to space with the performers. However, as compared to The Baling Talks, A LOST Arts Installation Exhibition "帶著時間色彩的眼淚 透蝕我的煙 而偷竊的小孩 並沒有看我雙眼" presented by Crazy Boomers 瘋狂爆炸劇團 in 2010, I would prefer the latter. 

During the A LOST Arts Installation Exhibition, we were brought from space to space as this performance happened in a very old fashioned house in Penang near the quay which it is vertically, it has 3 story and with a rooftop. 

The most impressing was when we were guided to the rooftop, watched performers performed the impressive martial arts dance (肢體). Not to forget to mention one of the performers was AIDA REDZA!

The second most impressing part was there was a spotlight shined in the sudden on the rooftop of the opposite building. Which means I was watching another performer performed on the opposite building. (impressed no more)

Feel so good to write about drama performance review! I really wish to watch more good shows!