An ENDLESS journey.

Title: 聽 說

Date: 10th-11th March 2013

Venue: Ngau Chi Wan Theatre

This performance is organised by 第十五屆大專戲劇節籌委會 which composed the drama societies of nine universities of Hong Kong. This Joint-Universities performance is the most eye-catching annual event, and I am very proud of being one of the participants in this grand occasion.

I will never regret of getting in to drama society, a place where I feel belong to, a second home, to me. This time, I am an actress finally, instead of a member of the backstage. Through the practices, run throughs, and the days on stage, I have learnt a lot of professional techniques about drama.

This drama is a combination of three stories: a girl (Suki) who earns money through compensated dating for her boyfriend who dumps her after acknowledging she diagnosed with HIV, a mental-disordered but talented young boy (Ki) is being isolated by the society, and another multiple-personality-disordered boy (Chun) who works as a social worker blindly.

Lighting, the different colours of lights always fascinated me. In scene zero, the three main characters was spot-lighted in three different colours, yellow, red, and purple respectively. Yellow represents the helplessness of Suki. Red represents the anger of  Ki since no one listens to him. And purple, expressing the inner complicated feelings of Chun. Apart from the colour of the lights, angle is also an important element of plotting lights. I learnt that following lights are not recommended in drama because people move around on stage and usually a large area of light is being plotted. There was a scene about Ki visualised about killing a human being for his spectacular art piece. Red and green lights were being used as they contrast each other to build a scary and horrifying atmosphere.

Setting, image, sound teams also play an important part of the whole drama. Missing one of them would ruin the play. This is unlike the classical drama because the way the director present the theme is more close to daily life. No more acting tone for the actors/actress, since one of the goals of this drama is to attract the audience attention by giving them an illusion that they are part of the play. They are the outsiders who witness the whole story. Or even, they are one of the characters.

The prettiest flowers I had even
received from my parents, and all
the good show gifts from friends.

Being an actress is not an easy job. Drama practice everyday from 7pm to 11pm, or even 1pm to 11pm on weekends, such a tough task for me. Everyday practice largely affect my schedule with my friends, and also family. They complained about me not appearing in gatherings, meals etc. Yet, at the same time, they support me for doing what I love and enjoy. I would like to thank you all of them for being generous and caring. Apart from that, as Suki, my emotions during that period of time was so fluctuated and cried very often. They sent me support and comfort me from time to time. Without their help, the show would not be that successful with many positive feedbacks.