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Monday, January 09, 2006
Quiet the Gorilla
Ok ok, i know i haven't been updating this blog for a very long while. i've got so much things to write too~ but dun noe which one to touch on. I've got the New Year's Eve (which i celebrated the arrival of another year happily with buddy yh watching the splendid fireworks at the esplanade), i've got the announcement of the sales of tickets for hall prod, i've got things to say about the lecturers for this new sem (my favs being Dr Aquila and Dr Lee Wai Peng, the worst being Lukt and that boosty 104 guy whom i shant bother to remember the name), i've got to mention i'm hurrying out a song for this national song-writing competition which i joined together which two of my frens (uncontracted).
but heck, i shall hav my first post devoted to this play written by Tan Mei Ching call Quiet the Gorilla. i was tidying my room and found my copy of this script and re-read it again. so nice, so inspired, so healthy for the new year. and yea, i'm going to put an excerpt of it on my msn nick. Watch out peeps, go find this script and read it. it's quite a nice lovely short story.
Excerpt from "Quiet the Gorilla" by Tan Mei Ching
SIEW: ...This dream I had. First a kangeroo bounces past me on the street, then a giraffe, then a family of lions, then everybody on the street ran like mad, but I was going the opposite direction, toward the runaway animals. Then came the gorilla. This huge hairy thing that ran down the street. It saw me and came in my direction.
(MIN starts crying again)
MIN: Don't tell me a tragedy right now.
SIEW: No, no, this is good. I ran.
MIN: And was caught. And eaten.
SIEW: No, I ran and the gorilla came after me... Then I realized something, that the radio was playing. So I switched it off. You know what, the gorilla quieted down. It was the radio that was making him mad. Then we celebrated with coffee.
MIN: Why are you telling me all this? What has it got to do with anything?
SIEW: I don't know. Maybe, sometimes we should just switch off the radio and maybe we don't have to fight the gorilla so hard.
MIN: (Crying more)I don't know what the hell you mean.
*trying-to-find-the-radio*,
Johnzzon
but heck, i shall hav my first post devoted to this play written by Tan Mei Ching call Quiet the Gorilla. i was tidying my room and found my copy of this script and re-read it again. so nice, so inspired, so healthy for the new year. and yea, i'm going to put an excerpt of it on my msn nick. Watch out peeps, go find this script and read it. it's quite a nice lovely short story.
SIEW: ...This dream I had. First a kangeroo bounces past me on the street, then a giraffe, then a family of lions, then everybody on the street ran like mad, but I was going the opposite direction, toward the runaway animals. Then came the gorilla. This huge hairy thing that ran down the street. It saw me and came in my direction.
(MIN starts crying again)
MIN: Don't tell me a tragedy right now.
SIEW: No, no, this is good. I ran.
MIN: And was caught. And eaten.
SIEW: No, I ran and the gorilla came after me... Then I realized something, that the radio was playing. So I switched it off. You know what, the gorilla quieted down. It was the radio that was making him mad. Then we celebrated with coffee.
MIN: Why are you telling me all this? What has it got to do with anything?
SIEW: I don't know. Maybe, sometimes we should just switch off the radio and maybe we don't have to fight the gorilla so hard.
MIN: (Crying more)I don't know what the hell you mean.
*trying-to-find-the-radio*,
Johnzzon
