Excitement filled the TAS auditorium at 2:05 pm on Thursday, March 4th 2010 for the first drama event of the IASAS Cultural Convention 2010. Each of the six IASAS schools were set to perform a 45 minutes long works. Mr. Doug Bishop of TAS said they all “tried to bring in challenging pieces to share with the other schools.”
The International School of Kuala Lumpur performed a play featuring a gay couple, thoroughly entertaining the audience. The International School of Bangkok conducted a piece focused on art and an artist with a bit of humor. The International School of Manila parodied a Bollywood drama with almost professional sounding Indian accents.
Singapore American School’s drama production featured an orphan, and Jakarta International School played charades and interacted with the audience during their performance. The last performance of IASAS CC 2010 was the TAS drama team, which performed a piece featuring many short stories.
After all works were performed, the actors from the six schools had a critique session where they had the chance to discuss their work. They got to share their ideas in this critique session, and the actors were able to ask questions to the directors and vice versa.
They also had a workshop with professional actors on clowning. The actors from ISB stated that they learned the “rules of three, that everything that’s stupid tends to be funny, and that failure is a good thing.”
When asked about performing on a different stage, ISM performers stated that “with a different stage, light pools were different and the set had to be shifted around a bit. TAS’s stage had a smaller performance space than the one at ISM but we also enjoyed playing on a different stage.”
ISM drama team all gather to the centre of the stage for a quick dance.
-Kanako
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