Watched Wildrice's JBJ play on Saturday with my dad. While it was not as flawed as the Straits Times made it out to be, it was definitely uneven and a little disjointed. Act 1 and Act 2 felt like 2 separate plays, each successful but when put together...it just seemed strange. It started as a light-hearted satire, almost like a romp. It ended as a melancholic, sober drama without much sign of the earlier half's breeziness. The distinct drop in tone was a little jarring.
BUT I still liked it. :)
1) for the quote "imperfect past makes present tense". nice line and I see on technorati that many other singaporeans thought so. ha. eleanor wong's got good lines as ever!
2) for the police man scene - easily rodney o's 2nd best scene. quite good, considering he was pretty weak in the first act.
3) for the amazing amazing Pam Oei - I swear the girl can really out-act any one. Every persona switch she did was spot on, pitch perfect and funny. Anything she acts in is just gold i bet. :)
4) for the pretty intense and well-acted lunch scene between "clara tang" - the up and coming civil servant - and the idealistic journalist she can never leave behind. the undercurrent of tension in that scene - sexual, political and otherwise! - was pretty well-done.
5) the strange ending - I don't fully understand it but there was something quite poetic about watching "clara" - the new cynical Singapore - drop her guardedness, her sadness and just dance in grim abandon with the ghost of an idealistic Singapore - "david" - under the momentary flare of national day fireworks. the scene had a little magic i think. :)
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