thoughts
our first public performance as a j1 batch, bang bang you're dead, was today at the arts house as part of the celebrate drama 2007.
for the first time ever, i actually loved and felt for this piece. it really spoke to me, especially during ed's visualisation exercise before the show. i never really thought about the real depth and meaning of the words in the script prior to today, but when i did, it made me tear a little.
imagine...
you are young, healthy, with your whole life ahead of you. you have a great family, awesome friends, a zest for life. in a matter of seconds, with one bullet, all that is taken away. all your possibilities, your dreams and aspirations......gone. life extinguished just like that, and you will never know what you could have seen/heard/loved in your lifetime. u will never see your loved ones again, never do all you wanted to do. and all because one other person decided to kill you, just for the heck of it.
i wonder what REALLY goes on in the minds of these killers. take for example the virginia tech guy... i'm sure he had some deeply-rooted psychological issues which eventually fuelled his ghastly killing spree and subsequent self-inflicted death.:( these people... stray too far for others to pull them back, and the only way they know how to channel this rage and anger at the world is to resort to violence. i think it's damn sad.
please come for bang bang if u can. i'm not saying this because i was told to, or because i have to clear tickets, but because i really think it's a very powerful play and it will definitely set you thinking about social issues such as gun control, and it will also make you appreciate your own life even more.
so you make your face a mask
a mask that hides your face
a face that hides the pain
a pain that eats your heart
a heart nobody knows
for the first time ever, i actually loved and felt for this piece. it really spoke to me, especially during ed's visualisation exercise before the show. i never really thought about the real depth and meaning of the words in the script prior to today, but when i did, it made me tear a little.
imagine...
you are young, healthy, with your whole life ahead of you. you have a great family, awesome friends, a zest for life. in a matter of seconds, with one bullet, all that is taken away. all your possibilities, your dreams and aspirations......gone. life extinguished just like that, and you will never know what you could have seen/heard/loved in your lifetime. u will never see your loved ones again, never do all you wanted to do. and all because one other person decided to kill you, just for the heck of it.
i wonder what REALLY goes on in the minds of these killers. take for example the virginia tech guy... i'm sure he had some deeply-rooted psychological issues which eventually fuelled his ghastly killing spree and subsequent self-inflicted death.:( these people... stray too far for others to pull them back, and the only way they know how to channel this rage and anger at the world is to resort to violence. i think it's damn sad.
please come for bang bang if u can. i'm not saying this because i was told to, or because i have to clear tickets, but because i really think it's a very powerful play and it will definitely set you thinking about social issues such as gun control, and it will also make you appreciate your own life even more.
so you make your face a mask
a mask that hides your face
a face that hides the pain
a pain that eats your heart
a heart nobody knows
posted by bevv @ 11:30 PM
1 Comments:
At 4:08 PM,
debbielam said…
hey babe, true true. you can also read what benedict has to say about crime in his newly-started blog. www.mylightinthedark.blogspot.com.... what he says is quite true too!
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