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Relationships are full of drama. as well as nobody brings drama across better than the not-for-profit community theatre group, Jakarta Players. This specific group of theatre aficionados, made up of amateurs, professionals as well as semi-pros by all walks of life, celebrated the opening of their 50th anniversary using a medley of short plays in which remind us why we love love.
The first play was one of my favourites of the show, Time Flies by David Ives. Two mayflies – played by Yuventius Nicky Norman as well as Anela Metta Suyadana – are on a date as well as end up back at her place. They tune into Life on Earth, a documentary by Sir David Attenborough (the character very realistically, yet humorously played by Andrew Trigg), only to discover in which they live for only one day as well as are set to perish at dawn. I loved the development of their relationship; their playful, flirtatious buzzing starts off very innocent, as well as ends in a saucy rubbing of each additional’s antennae. Although funny, This specific play carries a poignant message: don’t let time go to waste as well as live life to the fullest, as the two mayflies fall in love as well as decide to fly to Paris together before they die.
The second play was more serious in nature, The Right to Remain by Melanie Marnich, telling the story of an adulterous husband coming home to his wife as well as son, both of whom have been made aware of his cheating ways. Props go to David Knowles for his first class acting as the father, as well as his on-stage wife, Gene Sugandy’s anger as well as outrage was very expressive as well as moving.
Play three was a hilarious peek into a just-married couple on their first dance in Mr & Mrs by Julie Marie Myatt, played by Marissa Anita as well as David Knowles, as well as directed by Michael Donovan. Both actors were top notch as well as kudos to the direction; the cameraman using a flash from the audience, taking photos of the couple, added such humour, especially with Marissa Anita’s reactions to him. The best line of the play: the newly married wife says, “Darling, there’s something I have to tell you. I married you for your money,” received a response by newly married husband, “Well darling, I married you for your body!” A laugh-out-loud riot.
Last, yet definitely not least, Check Please by Jonathan Rand, directed by Heriska Suthapa, was another one of my favourites. Who hasn’t experienced a bad first date? Two singles (Nurza Prisca as well as Yuventius Nicky Nurman) experience their fair share of extremely funny, extremely atrocious first dates (dates played by Maureen Simatupang, Chris Bates, Fasola as well as Andrew Trigg); a multiple personality disorder sufferer, a high schooler, an elderly lady, an over-eager as well as over-the-top slime ball, someone who just doesn’t listen, a football fanatic, a man with every phobia under the sun, a man in his bathrobe, as well as a mime. from the end, the singles bump into each additional by accident, reminding us in which sometimes to find love, you just have to stop looking.
All proceeds by This specific show go to Habitat for Humanity Indonesia. The Jakarta Players stage around three shows a year as well as hold open auditions for each one. To find out more as well as get involved, on stage or backstage, visit www.jakartaplayers.org
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Status: the item’s Complicated
Status: the item’s Complicated