Much Ado about Nothing

This posting is a dedication to my theatre practical group. For those who are clueless, I took TS1101 E, an exposure module that required students to put up a play as a final examination. The group that I am so proud to be a part of, comprises of these following individuals that you would see below, namely Ying Shi, Chermaine, Shilin, Moon and Carmen.. I feel really blessed to have affiliated myself with them not only because they are all outstanding theatre students who were hardworking and dedicated to the cause( doing well), but also because they have managed do all that while still functioning as a group without getting on each other’s nerves. In fact, I like them so much then when it finally ended on the day of production, which was Thursday, I drove home crying. But then again, I do that all the time. Anyway this is a posting dedicated to a project group that I feel truly grateful to have been a part of.


Shilin, Ying Shi, Moon, Carmen, Chermaine and Me 

This is all of them. This picture was taken at our first rehearsal I think, and we all wore red and black because we wanted to print a programme booklet for the final production, and as you can see, Chermaine, had to get it all wrong. Oh yes, evidently, I am the thorn amongst the roses in this group. But this is hardly surprising, cos there are hardly any guys who take theatre. If they do take it, they are either gay or they are stupid enough to take an exposure module that is so much more demanding than any other exposure module. I, on the other hand, am an exception to both cases. I take it cos I like it.


I look like an idiot, maybe its cos I am surrounded by girls. I am shy la..... 


The award winning cast. I am so not photogenic!!!!! 


Oh yes, by the way it ws Chermaine's idea for all of us to wear red and black, but well as you can see, i guess she saw it a little differently from all of us.... 


This was the site outside the Black Box(the exam venue), after the production. 

This was taken after the show. We were feeling pretty good, because finally it was all over. Trust me, it takes a lot of work to put up a production of this magnitude given the limited resources and time that we had. Furthermore, we had just been commended greatly by our examiners. Oh, I forgot, the script we chose was from Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. For those who have read the literature, I acted as Benedict, Chermaine was Beatrice, Carmen as Claudio, Moon as Leonato and Shilin was Don Pedro. Ying Shi was our director and we all decided to transpose the whole script to 16th Century China, during a time of the Ming Dynasty hence the costumes. There were more “chim” reasons that paralleled the Shakespeare version to that of the Ming Dynasty, but I shant go into the details.


Poster Pic, Han Chuan and The Girls, starring,,,,,, 


Our talented director, the professor was so impressed by her essay, he decided to give her A++++++++. Imagine that. 


Kim, was the coordinator at the Black Box who happens to be Chermaine's friend, Luck was certainly on our side. 


Stop laughing. We were told to pose according to character, and kung fu was the only think i could think of then 


The other girls is Chermaine's sister, whom we must thank as well for agreeing to be our tackey. From this pic, you can tell they love me as much as i love them. Ha ha!! 

So there you have it. I would rather refer to us as a theatre group instead of my project group, simply because of all their talent in their respective fields of theatre. Thank you friends, for the honour of working with all of you and for the pleasure of knowing all of you. It certainly would be a lasting memory of my undergraduate days as i graduate at the end of this semester.

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