Simulated Teaching (part II)

Presentation Day:

I went to class, with my nervousness inside. My heart is pumping very fast...Oh my God...

I went to ask Miss Kastoory about my plan, what am I going to do and the activities. Unfortunately she said, 'you cannot used the whole text. You must have the extract, but we will see what do you have....' Ohh my..... I was like..urghhh.. I forgot about the extract, I thought if it is a short play, I can use the whole text for teaching. But I went wrong...

I was totally frustrated. Tired and mad of myself. not anyone else... When it ccomes to my turn to teach, I just walked in front and start my teaching session. I don not care much about anything else except my teaching. But seriously, I am not happy that day..it was all my fault, my biggest mistake. It may effect my marks..but at least I will never ever forgot about the extract. my bad, my bad.....

Simulated Teaching (part I)

Preparation:

what am I going to do...hmmm...aha!
I choose the play which I think nobody will expected it. I have learned a short play entittle 'The Ring'. It is about a troublesome boy Raj and a demon. A girl demon, as Raj says she is cute. Weird huh? Yup it is weird.

As for set induction, I choose a picture of a demon. I think it going to be alright, ask some questions about demon and so on. The activity is simple not so tough for my students. Searching for Raj and the demon , Lela characteristics, finding the textual evidence for several characteristics.

I hope I am going to be Okay, by the way honestly I am not well prepared.

King and King and King

Oedipus the King, one of the ancient play that I learned from Dr Edwin. Oedipus the king who at first kind of heroic character. Oedipus solve the riddle that save Thebes. But then he realized that he is a bad person where he killed his own father and then he married his own mother which is both he do not know about; the truth. How pathetic marrying your mother? Killing your father? It is so very bad.

Then, the next play i learned is King Lear. Lear throw out his own daughter because of Cordelia, cannot say in words how much she love her father, King Lear. Lear divided his power, to make himself less of burden. Lear show his irresposibility, divided his power, to make his life easy, and making a sudden decision towards her daughter. At last, Cordelia is the one who save and stay with Lear not the other two.

After this...what else? I mean another king? KING KONG maybe...haha..just joking..Why do Dr Edwin pick up dramas related to king? Most of them. Also in Swordfish Then The Concubine. Why....

'Theatre Live'

I never thought that I am going to watch any theatre, theatre in English to be specific. Before this, I have went for theatre twice, but both in Malay. I am force to or I have to watch theatre as one of my task for EDU 3217. It is compulsory. For the first time I heard about it, urrghh...its such a burden.

My friends fazzli, amir, kero, fahmi and I went to KLpac by motorcycle. For your information, we did not know where the KLpac is. All five of us search for the info on the internet, so we have the map to KLpac. But, the biggest problem is, we are not familiar with the area where KLpac is. We just try our best, until we reached at Sentul Timur LRT station.

We ask the taxi drivers there the way to KLpac, but unfortunately most of them did not know or never heard of KLpac. Only one 'uncle' know where is it.He took us there. Thank God, we arrived at KLpac just on time. The play just started.

My very first step inside the hall, I was impressed. This is not what I expected. I thought the stage will be larger, and the hall itself. But still, it is nice. There were 3 sided seating, where the audience can watch very close to the actors. It is not just it, there were only 2 actors on stage and just a simple sofa set and a table as the prop.

As the play moving from one scene to another, I felt so overwhelmed by the play. It was great. the actors voice projection was good, their expression and action, I was impressed. It was a great feeling until the end of it. 'Secret Love Life of Ophelia' the play entittled. I wish i will have another chance to watch theatre soon.

A Session with Kee Thuan Chye

Kee Thuan Chye is from Penang. A famous Malaysian writer is here in UPM, spends sometimes with the TESL students. What a great session with Kee Thuan Chye. He is a very nice person, very nice to talk to. Wow! What a great experience to meet, talk and ask him about his experience in writing.

I have read two of his works and the current one is ‘The Swordfish, Then the Concubine’. It is a contemporary or a modern play he wrote, so it is a lot easier to read and to finish reading it. I do admit that I love his works. He makes me think about my beloved country Malaysia, what is happening all around Malaysia. I am able to relate it to the current issues in Malaysia. It makes me more aware to my surrounding. As a good and responsible Malaysian, I extremely agree we should be more sensitive or aware to the events around me. That is how we show our responsibility to this country. ‘I don’t give a damn!’ we should avoid it. Show your responsibility towards your own country, if we the citizens of Malaysia ‘don’t give a damn’ to our surrounding, who else would do? Who else would care for it? This is the message that Kee Thuan Chye trying to tell us, the Important of being a responsible Malaysian. The readers are exposed to the current issues eventhough the setting portrayed the ancient time.

After the session with Mr. Kee Thuan Chye, I personally ask him about the surprising number of characters in ‘The Swordfish, Then the Concubine’. The version that I read, surprisingly, there are 63 characters in it. So, I thought about how they do it on stage. Are you going to pay for 63 actors for one single play? It is insane. He said to me, they were only 15 actors were hired for the play. So, they play several roles per person. He said it was difficult to deal with but they managed to do it well. Isn’t it surprised you? I do. 15 actors for 63 characters? Wow! A single actor should play at least 4 roles. How amazing it is? I wish I will have the chance to go and watch the play soon. Hope the ticket is not too expensive

or else I am not able to pay for it.

Last word from Kee Thuan Chye, BE A GOOD MALAYSIAN!

Kee Thuan Chye sharing his experience.

Kee Thuan Chye close-up

Me on his left with my fellow friends

my very first D.R.A.M.A class

Firstly, I am sorry to say that I don't really remember the date. Pity me. But I do remember several things. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Malachi Edwin Vethamani is the lecturer for 'Teaching The Language of Drama'.

At first, I thought that drama is something that I am familiar with, for example the drama on television as I watch it daily. When Dr. Edwin started to talk about it, the history, venue, the audience and more, it was totally out of my perception.

The drama that I am studying now is something different.It is more like theatre or play. During the ancient time, drama and theatre was one of the popular entertainment. Theatre in Greek is one of the famous theatre. One of the play I have read and learned about is Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. Guess what, the Oedipus complex which is a psychological illness, the name is taken from the character in this play. Oedipus, the king who married his own mother and the mental illness Oedipus complex refers to a person, male who attracted to his own mother. Nothing to do with the play, but the fact really attract my attention. So, drama, theatre or play is interesting and enjoyable.

WHY??

I'm wondering why am I so lazy to update my OWN blog...I'm playing a role of an inactive blogger....

Maybe I'm new in this blogging field...plus i am afraid if there is no response or no viewer will read my blog..It is sad..so sad..

This blog matwafi.blogspot.com is a platform of expressing my opinion and reflection on my drama@theatre course...

I think I will survive.....I hope I will survive...I wish I could survive....