3/59 mins

The Oral Stage did a fantastic job with Rojak, and thus I looked forward to their follow-up play, fiftynineminutes with certain expectations in mind. Well, actually I was there mainly for Erin, who has been gushing about her 2-minute role for months now. aww, c'mon erin, it was At Least 3 mins =P

The short play eRin (she likes her name spelled like that.. soon we'll become wAwa, jAse, kMen, jUju.. ish..) was in was titled Best Foot Forward, and her 2.. I mean 3 minutes ROCKED!! Fine, I'm just pimping her. But since 1/3 of the crowd that night were made up of us eRin supporters, that had better been the best 3 minutes of all her 5 performances! Since I haven't gotten the photos from jOhn, I'll just pimp eRin with another nice picture of her here.

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ok fine, so maybe that wasn't a very nice pic. here's a better one...













ok maybe not.

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hey look, i finally found a nice one!











how coincidental that *i'm* in it as well! HAHAH

Actually all the actors were great, and it's truly inspiring to see what these young people are capable of when they are ignited purely by passion. The crowd's favourite seemed to be The World's Smelliest Durian. Johann Lim was impressive, the script was great. What's more entertaining than poking fun at our own nation, eh?

My personal favourite? The Interlude Girl! Although she wasn't actually in any of the short plays, she was the one who entertained me the most. Someone (i think it was john.. or jessen.. or maybe zaffri.. confirm male =.=) suggested that they could have developed her character into a play of her own as the finale. I totally enthusiastically agree.

In other plays like Fruitcake and TRACK, the tension in the room was so thick you could slice it with a knife and spread butter on it.. (oops.. thick = thick toast = WongKok = new purple / pink flowery renovations at ss2 outlet = huge turn off) But Anyway.. Yeah, the tension exuded by the characters is something awesome about theatre that works with small audiences such as the one performed to at the Dram Projects.

As for eRin, I confess...



She's one of the most photogenic people I know, and I have tons of great shots of her =) So any bad pics must be kept as a collector's item =P

Congrats on your debut, Ozzy. I know there are gonna be many, many more to come!