Tiger - Pass Gate

So this blog was meant to be closed. Oops.

I miss the insensible reality of a production. TPG was a time-space warp in the middle of a humdrum semester; and the change was welcome and worthwhile. Cheers guys, it was really good fun stressing you all out. Special love to Su on that. *wink*

But time's a promise breaker, time fades

And it is over....

8 long weeks of preparation work, rehearsals, stress, making fun of each other and running around like a mad chicken, Tiger pass gate has come to its end. It has been a great show, we bonded, cried, laugh, swear and sung like nuts. It has been a wonderful journey, from bump in to bump out, each show was as magical as the last. To all the actors, you have all touch our hearts and brought out our homesickness. To all the crew, this show would have never been possible without all of you, from the smallest to the largest, it has been a great 8 weeks......

With Love,
Set Manager
Adrian

The Writer's Impetuosity

There is no culture without resistance;
There is no culture without violence.

Yes. That is a quote from my script and I am a shameless narcissist behind the screen of anonymity. It's a beautiful Sunday morning and I thought to myself: it's time to reveal my mad perspective of the play.

An anonymous blogger (come-out, come-out wherever you are...) wrote a comment for the first entry that the show 'looks-promising'. Sweetheart, 'looks-promising'?! According to social-semiotics, "looks-promising" means "the show might fall apart at anytime but we'll see..." I'm sorry, this show does not 'looks-promising' - it ROCKS!!! Ah... you might think that I am truly an arrant egoist without a sinew of bashfulness to save my soul. Well, I am.

What is the driving force of the play? Who is the driving force of the play? Let me answer the former first: "We". And the answer of the latter: "We". This ambiguous pronoun emcompasses all those who worked their backsides-off for this production. I'm not going to name names simply because my memory sucks with labels. The "We" of The Tiger Pass Gate are those individuals with a tenacity and endurance that are on par with Olympic Athletes. Why, you ask? Try working 18 hours a day with no sleep, aggravated eye-bags and chasing after individuals who find work ethics hard to comprehend. Unlike the Olympic champion, "we" know how to multitask. Unlike the Olympian champion, "our" muscles are hidden behind layers of brain goo and mass.

My reason for writing this play is three-fold. One: to feed my masochistic taste for verbal abuse. Someone is surely going to hate the play. That's cool. Two: Simon (your beloved director) blackmailed and used telepathic empathy to recondition my mind. And three: I can't shut-up. I have tried and failed and so now I resign myself to the immutable condition of dissidence. The truth is, I love Singapore and that logically infers that I must also hate it too. You can't love something without being dissatisfied.

And so I have come in media res to this blog to give a tidbit of perspective. To my dearest audiences, come with a box of tissues. You're going to need it. Bring a ventolin inhaler while you're at it. To my dearest cast and crew, I love you all in my sick, sick way. (Laughing manically). You are the brain, the bone, the spine and the muscle of the production. I am merely the parasite that's doing Cuban Salsa in the intestines. Drop-by sometime to say "hi".

Chris

Set Design

Hi to all you lovely people out there, art lovers and such. Tiger pass gate set design has been design by our beloved director.....Drum rolls...........*SIMON*....... yes this lovely set and the making of this set, this task has been set upon me. The set itself contains a mind bending game of which I have yet to come to understand. In relation to the play each different block contains a story, with its end point being the finale. This set has intriuge me in many aspects, with the concept of having the actors change on stage, and then there's......wait I'm giving away too much already..... Come and watch the play and find out....

Insane Set Manager