Our English Drama Competition!

Joy, Me and Mareen

I’m lucky, aren’t I? This semester I picked the topic “drama,” and, dahlah! Here they are! Performances everywhere beside me! This time we are no longer the audience sit in front of the stage, we have our costumes on and act!
Divided into six groups, our class is going to prepare for a small English context. It would be like the miniature of the Grand English Drama.
Our group decided to move the Holly Wood movie MIB on the stage. We adapted some of the details to saving characters from the fairytales that doesn’t know one another are fierce aliens.. For instance, we have to save Princess Snow White, for she doesn’t know her dwarfs are from Mars and shall eat her after the afternoon tea. I acted as the senior agent K, Eric as agent J. we really enjoyed making cool poses with guns in our hands!!

The other five groups were all so amazing. There was a story telling how a home-guy (or so called “otaku”) pursues his loved one and wins her heart by being just who he is. There was a story of four sisters’ journey of saving the prince, but found the prince loves a man in the end. There was a story talking about the awareness of a lazy student…… (sorry I couldn’t name them all, if you have a strong urge to promote your drama, please leave some words below, thanks) They are all extremely creative! And I found our cells of acting unexpectedly active!! Hahaha! The one I like most is the play called The Lord of the Ring(?). It was the story of a telephone information woman. She helped many people deal with their difficulties in life through tender and comforting words but lives a hard life herself. In the end she died of the serious disease, but brought together the people who she helped—four connected people. They saw the true heart within each other at her funeral. Ohhhh, I almost cried when I saw the last scene where they met each other surprisingly in the funeral! I believe many other classmates did shed a tear on the spot.
Our MIB won the prize of special effect and costume. The prize was an envelope, an envelope with …guess what’s inside?...A piece of paper written “Special Effect and Costume Prize”—or something like that—only. We were kinda disappointed at first, but felt better when we know every group had gotten the same thing. Alright, the whole competition thing was just for fun, obviously; and we did have fun!
So, it’s fun!!!!!!!!!+w+

Hairspray--Grand English Drama of DFLL

After 8 months of practicing and hard-work, the yearly big deal—Grand English Drama, HAIRSPRAY, goes on the stage!!
…Okay, I know it was almost a month ago…Anyways, the Grand English Drama is the tradition of Department of Foreign Language and Literature, and has won compliments among the other universities. The shows are Broadway-styled, with songs and dances accompany the lines. It’s been 25 tiring yet glorious years for the directing professor Chong Ging-tong, who is our Listening teacher as well.
This year the senior students of our department prepared the famous musical “Hairspray,” which had just been made into a movie these years, also a play I like very much. Me and my friends served as the staffs in the theatre during the two days of performance, and it was our pleasure to be included into the show!

We watch the show for the very first time in the theatre, just like the other audience. The performance was so exciting that we, the staffs, could hardly sit still in our seats! We kept yelling and applauding with a hall of audience because they are just amazing! I can’t explain how grandeur, how spectacular or how professional their performance was—and too bad it didn’t allow pictures taken during the show—because the magic of the stage design, the dances, even the live music played by the students from Department of Music, cannot be described clearly through my humble words. I love the design of “I Can Hear the Bells” the most, in which Link—the main actor—act like a doll controlled by Tracy. It was so creative and extremely cute! The black man Seaweed sang terrific and his dance were simply awesome!
All I can tell you is, the songs were great, the dances were perfect, and our friend Chiquita looked exactly like her role “Little Inez.” After watching the show, I couldn’t stop singing for days; I’m still singing even now when I’m writing about it! I hope we can have a chance like them as well when we turned the second grade. I heard that our Listening teacher thought about retiring, ohhh, that would be a great loss! (Proffessor! Don’t go! I really love singing…and dancing, too…oh, and acting….)