I won tickets to the opening night of a local theatre production called MACHINES (by Orangedot Production) so I invited Patrick along with me to my maiden trip to the Esplanade theatre! It was a rather eye-opening experience, I would say.
Machines, I was told, is a new production (directed by Jeremiah Choy) of an old play in 2003, which won the best script award. It stars 4 new actors and the duration was 1h 40min without any intermission. The genre is contemporary romance and the play was pretty abstract. Well, for me without any knowledge of theatre studies, it does seem quite interesting and also the storyline seems pretty understandable.
Basically the story is about 4 adults, 2 office ladies (Lina and Kim) and 2 repairmen (Rex and Heng). Their paths crossed when Rex and Heng appeared to repair Lina and Kim's washing machine. These 4 people have very different personalities, which is reflected in their actions and speech - Lina being very outgoing and gregarious, Kim being more subdued and shy with a mysterious past, Heng is a repairman who thinks about machines all the time and Rex is has slick charisma which is hiding something. What's the meaning of love and partnership? Which is pretty relevant to today despite the script being written 10 years ago. Is love fickle, transient and how can we achieve it? It seems that these 4 adults treat love as something sexual and transient, as can be seen from how quickly they switch partners.
After this production, I thought I appreciated theatre much better because it was really difficult to memorise a 1h 40min script at one go, and acting naturally with much emotions and also with much sexual content. Definitely the goodlooking cast worked wonders by making me glue my eyes to every movement and word they say :)
Do watch it if there's a 3rd reproduction ;)
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