The Venetian Experience

How should I express what I’m feeling now in words?

Yay? Phew? Wow? Yes?

Oh dear, the Merchant of Venice production has just finished, and I feel so…

Shaken…

The whole process was not easy and rough, but in the end, after the sudden nadir which descended upon us one week away from the production date, we have triumphed it!!!

The MOV production was so heartening! Yeo Jie was Yeo Jie, made for the role of Shylock. Benjamin was totally convincing as Portia, Bjorn was totally convincing as Bassanio, and ZHI YOU, the least predicted of all, gave a stunningly moving performance as Antonio!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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And Theo’s oral defence script was so kwekish. Imagine the effect it had on the judges. You know what happens whenever something is written/done by Kwek. It blows your scarfs off. If you’re wearing any, that is.

I feel totally ecstatic right now. Mrs. Suhaimy even spoke to me on MSN ( A TEACHER DOING THAT. O.0), and she said, I am so proud of 2K.

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What could I say? I said I think so too.

Yay yay yay yay yay yay yay.

And all these would have been impossible without Ernest and Yan Qi, the directors of the production. And Kwek. And Yeo Jie. And Benjamin. And Bjorn. And MRS. SUHAIMY!!!!

Yes. Mrs. Suhaimy is such a supercalifragilisticexpialodocious teacher!!! I don’t even know what word to praise her! She GAVE US all her periods for the last week, and today’s to work on our MOV production. She is so GENEROUS!!!!!!!

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Something I realised from this whole experience is that there are some literary works which are like fine French wine, the more you savour it, the more you realise the multiple layers of flavour and fragrance, and how rich and complex it is. It just wows you away and CONTINUES TO WOW YOU AWAY.

The Merchant of Venice is JUST THAT. I realise that after studying it so much, I appreciate it more and more and more. Maybe it’s because I’m partly so ecstatic about this whole experience, or maybe it’s because I really like it. Either way, Shakespeare ROCKS!!!

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Come to think of it, the MOV thing would not have even been possible without the whole class! Yes, everyone of you, if you’re reading my blog right now, have contributed to the MOV play in ways which are important.

3 Cheers for 2K!!!!

Hip Hip, Hooray!

Hip Hip, Hooray!

HIP HIP, HOORAY!!!!!!!

~ by philocrazy on September 17, 2008.