BETRAYAL was just awesome. great. spectacular. i don't know, i feel those are the kinds of words you use to describe a quick-buck summer blockbuster so i really don't know how to say anything that will do it justice. that's why i hate for people to ask me 'what is this play about?' because i feel there's no way one can answer that question! you have to watch it to know! plays aren't just about plots, they're about ... EVERYTHING!

it was amazing to experience Pinter after having studied his work and see the way the thespians dealt with the pauses and the absurd conversations and loaded statements and EVERYTHING! Shabana Azmi was just superb. all of them were great actors, but she was clearly IT. her expressions, the way she utilized the pauses .. oh my God! and the crew was amazing. just amazing, especially at the end. gosh i want to work as crew somewhere before i go away to uni if i can.

and at the end of the play, we were told the director would come out and talk about her work so the interested could stay on. and she's so young, so very very young. i guess it's so typical and wrong to associate age with experience and expertise but she looked fresh out of university! which she probably isn't, but still, very very young. amazing. and she said every night the audience has been reacting differently[so far, it's been three runs to a fullhouse, and i expect tonight is a fullhouse too because when i went to get my matinee tickets last weekend all the good seats were sold out]. and it must just be so ... amazing. i don't know, to be part of this whole thing, this living organism of theatre. after the session was over, we were all just exploding with awe over her talent, and dav, van and yif said, 'that could be you next time, mel' and i just felt so inspired and so encouraged that i have people who believe in me and in what i want to do.

this has been incredibly incoherent and disjointed and i realize i keep saying 'amazing' but i really don't know how else to say it and i don't want to say more because i don't want to spoil it for anyone else who goes to watch. it's running til 4th september and we students get a whopping discount!

anyway, after THAT, the trip to town felt so anti-climactic but i felt like i was being exposed to such new things because i haven't been to town in like two months [seriously] and all the clothes [and i mean all. even weird brands like 'yin and yang' or something] just looked so nice and i wish i had brought money because i couldn't buy anything and the next chance i'll get to go out to town will probably be a long way away.

+ posted by M @ 8:51 PM