Suap the Destiny

It has been a very busy period for me, Suap was physically and emotionally draining, but it was all worthwhile. Being in my first scripted Malay theatre was quite an amazing feat. Thank god I could get those lines down, knowing my relationship with lines are not so friendly. However, the team that I worked with provided a great sense of comfort and motivation during the process. Plus I was quite familiar with Fared's working style, and Zul's sonic landscape. Its like a reunion or sort. I lost of a lot of weight during the process, well that is another plus point.

Presently, I have been busy with Cake's Destinies of Flowers, the process is very cognitive I would say, and this piece is a very challenging one for myself and maybe the rest of the cast. Finally, I get to see how actors really research deep into the characters and finding their journeys in the piece.

The past one year or so, I have been heavily involved in the process of theatre making, I would say it is a different ball game, from the administration to the creative sense of things. All of these coming from a perspective of a visual artist, now, I think I have a clearer sense of how things work in a theatre company, it is all a 'full on' collaborative effort.

It is somehow similar to planning a wedding event, but its like everyone is getting married at the same time, from the cast, writer, producer, stage hand, sound and set designer all merge. United as one. It sounds cheesy, but its a tedious process definitely. Everyday is a new learning experience for me, it is like as if all of us are searching for something there.