Watching Pychosis is totally a different experience from the plays I have watched ever. It is simple, straight-forward not as fancy as the plays I have watched. I was deeply impressed by the atmosphere and the setting of the play once I entered the hall after I read the introduction of the play.
The stage is in the middle of the ground surrounded by the seat of the audiences. It is a five dimensions view stage,which created a space link to the audiences. There are two actors sitting motionless and silent on the various parts of the stage when the audiences entered the stage. It is a way to catch the attention and sooner the audience settled down, the light slowly dim and faded off. The atmosphere of darkness remained for minutes. In my opinion, I think it is suitable and appropriate as it gives the impression as if we are in the defined room as an individual, the emotion of contented with different emotional thoughts slowly built up in this way.
I read about an article in Sin Chew Jit Poh few days back telling that 4a.m is the time when people are emotionally weak. Those who is emotionally troubled and stays awake around 4a.m would probably fall into this psychology wreck and do things irrationally. I quickly connect the idea with the title of the play--"4.48 Pyschosis". No matter I am right or not, I guess playwright focus much on the psychological theories in this play which I believed that is the reason the play is named as "4.48 Psychosis".
From the play, I managed to see different extreme emotional thoughts of the protagonist who is a characteristic mix and theoatrical innovated person. The effects of the monologues, the dialogues whose content includes exchanges between patients and therapists, notes about grief, mental anguish, psychological distress and the reveal of the feelings about protagonist's life really gave me a terrific impact. I was overwhelmed by the emotion expressions of the protagonist.
"How DO I stop?" "Keep on saying it..." "YOU ARE SO WRONG!" "NO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND! NO ONE......" "Watch Me! See Me! LOOK AT ME!". Those are the phrases that really give an "umg" to me,that really "hit" me when the actors presented them with full emotions and actions.
Apart from all, I love the phrase "Please open the curtains!" exclaimed by all the three characters. For me, it indicate a sort of freedom and relief from all those deep negative inner emotions of the protagonist. I think it is a good show for a small production like this. It really impressed me!
The stage is in the middle of the ground surrounded by the seat of the audiences. It is a five dimensions view stage,which created a space link to the audiences. There are two actors sitting motionless and silent on the various parts of the stage when the audiences entered the stage. It is a way to catch the attention and sooner the audience settled down, the light slowly dim and faded off. The atmosphere of darkness remained for minutes. In my opinion, I think it is suitable and appropriate as it gives the impression as if we are in the defined room as an individual, the emotion of contented with different emotional thoughts slowly built up in this way.
I read about an article in Sin Chew Jit Poh few days back telling that 4a.m is the time when people are emotionally weak. Those who is emotionally troubled and stays awake around 4a.m would probably fall into this psychology wreck and do things irrationally. I quickly connect the idea with the title of the play--"4.48 Pyschosis". No matter I am right or not, I guess playwright focus much on the psychological theories in this play which I believed that is the reason the play is named as "4.48 Psychosis".
From the play, I managed to see different extreme emotional thoughts of the protagonist who is a characteristic mix and theoatrical innovated person. The effects of the monologues, the dialogues whose content includes exchanges between patients and therapists, notes about grief, mental anguish, psychological distress and the reveal of the feelings about protagonist's life really gave me a terrific impact. I was overwhelmed by the emotion expressions of the protagonist.
"How DO I stop?" "Keep on saying it..." "YOU ARE SO WRONG!" "NO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND! NO ONE......" "Watch Me! See Me! LOOK AT ME!". Those are the phrases that really give an "umg" to me,that really "hit" me when the actors presented them with full emotions and actions.
Apart from all, I love the phrase "Please open the curtains!" exclaimed by all the three characters. For me, it indicate a sort of freedom and relief from all those deep negative inner emotions of the protagonist. I think it is a good show for a small production like this. It really impressed me!
1 comment:
I’m glad that you enjoyed the play but as for me I did not enjoy it at all. You mentioned that It is simple and straight-forward play but I disagree with you. This was not an easy to understand play as it needs us to think deeply. I don’t think people who have low proficiency level in English will understand it. The main focus was the actor’s voices and not how the actors act and perform. Moreover, I don’t think the atmosphere of darkness was suitable. The voices in the darkness really scared me. This play really affects our emotion, don’t you think the speech was too harsh for us and not suitable for us. It will not help much in the study of drama. We should be exposed to unique and beautiful words underlying in the play. The stage did not attract my attention, it did not used many props for example costume and stage’s background as it was in the middle surrounded by the seat of the audiences. It is a five dimensions view stage. We are supposed to be exposed to the used of props as we learnt it in our course especially in Shakespeare’s play. It was a play about someone’s mind that went through psychological disorder which was really a distraction to me. I think cant get any moral values from this play.
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