Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Alright, here’s the deal. I’ve been up to something for the past 3 months and it finally ended with a bang! Yeah.. never did reveal ANYTHING from the auditions to the rehearsals and yes even the concert!

On 11th of June, I went for the Shakespeare’s – A Midsummer Night’s Dream auditions and was casted as the Amazonian Warrior Queen by the name of Hippolyta!

My shady screen character
♥ her

That’s Henry & Mariake during auditions
He got casted as Flute the bellowsman & she as Philostrate my “butler”

Soon after, I arrived at the Regency, Gurney Drive at the directors house for our 1st cast meeting… goodness gracious there were so many people! Yeah, one can sometimes get the jitters from that.

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and that’s not even the entire cast yet
*gulps*

And soon, week after week it was rehearsals non-stop

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Director Ian Kerr coordinating a scene

And pretty soon, all of us clicked so well! No more bashfulness for me… wheeeeee

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Director Ian Kerr turned out to be such a jolly good fellow!
He’s really patient and such a nice man

I made fast friends with 13year-old Vanessa who got casted as one of the fairies. We always go for suppers together after the rehearsals and camwhore around the swimming pool area

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Thanks Van~

After 2months plus of rehearsals, the night is coming!

Closer to the date, the props and other misc-en-scene were all being constructed on the stage in preparations for the event

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Nice arse. Who’s that anyway? =P

To ensure we were all familiar with the stage & the settings, rehearsals were then held at Dewan Sri Pinang itself. Gosh, the stage was so darn huge compared to our usual practice place.

and we continued rehearsing and rehearsing…

..and rehearsing and rehearsing

The throne where my duke Theseus and I will be sitting

Ian got really really stressed on the night before the show everyone was too

Some of the cast of our drama

As we were warriors, my duke Theseus and I get to carry swords around with us. and ZOMG those are real swords we had!!

Yes, Marieke it’s sharp.. checkin it out?
=)

I also had to get a scorpion “tattoo” for my character!

Yep, and we’re all done!

Mighty Duke of Athens & his Amazonian Warrior Queen

Ya know what’s strange? I feel we resemble pirates rather than warriors =P

The Fairy Queen, one of the fairies and I

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I’m glad I got casted as the warrior Queen, cos she has quite a dark & strong character and that, I like.
Seriously, I can never imagine playing the dainty and cute dancing fairies.
SO.NOT.ME

(yes. I know I look disasterous in the wedding gown)
I cannot believe I ended up getting married to him… he’s such a donkey.
If you’re reading this Han, blekkkkkk *hugs*

Ahh yes, this is more like it.
No more humongous fluffy layer-cake
puffy white gown.

When it was all over, we managed to raise a hell lot of money for the Mount Miriam Hospital. They needed it to buy their cancer-cell destroying thingamajig.
Now, that’s what I call CHARITY WITH FUN!

XOXO
to those who came to support & watch the show!

For pictures of us all during the drama, I will have to wait until
the photographer burns it for me. Then, I promise to upload them!

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15/09/2008

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14 responses to “Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream”

Cathy

15/09/2008

HAHA..yea..dont look like a warrior though..more like a pirate..
anyway,u get to wear wedding gown..should be pretty eh…what weird ?? =.=”

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Ruionkoh

15/09/2008

haha dun ask me why!But once I read your character,i burst into laughter.HAHAHA.

Sound WILD.lol.yeah, just like you and indeed, its so your character, you need not act it out, its just you being more old-fashioned tats it.wakaka. But i do think u put alot of effort in becoming one hella DANCING FAIRY.haha its like asking an emo monkey to do the ball room dance ngek ngek ngek shoo bad huh me?LOL

WOkie , but honestly I think you look great in your outfit,lol as usual? One thing which is different (and shall be improved the nex time is that)….

your shady screen character has deeper cleavage then you do.hahaha *evil grin.

Wokie, long enough i guess.SInce u posted so susah-ly, surela havta comment kao kao also aight?

Nyhow, I could see tat u have done a good job wey.*clap*clap*

^^tarah!
♥ her

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Ruionkoh

15/09/2008

lol lol lol lol.WTF ♥ her wasnt supposed to be there.It was when i copy “shady screen character”, it came along and i entered it and i forgotten to delete it and it did find itself a nice position lol.nemind la we fren fren lurve aight?lol *throws jess back to benji hahah!

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jėss.T

15/09/2008

cathy yeahlorrr… mroe like a pirate. i feel like a female version of cap’n jack sparrow. wheeee! wakakaka. oh, and abt the wedding gown, mebbe im just not used to it.. AT ALL. =)

LOL rui wowww! sucha long comment! *hugs* ahhaaha yeah, thank God they gave me this character instead of the fairies. cos i seriously wont know how to be comfy with that. =)

WOIWOI of course la deeper cleaveage. *sniff. she wear so low cut ma. wakakka =)

thanks so much buddy! =) =)
*wheeeeee* but nolah, my lines weren’t that much oso, cos this drama is actualy an excerpt from the original full drama.

and why? scared? wahh must explain summore. dun love me ka? aahahahah xoxo

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shadyz

15/09/2008

u just seem to have interesting things to do 1 hor?
fun ler…

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jėss.T

15/09/2008

wheeeeeee shadyz next time got anything up I call u along okie? dun ppk can de. blekk

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shadyz

16/09/2008

u keep saying that 1 lar..
din invite once b4 oso.. =P

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Chris Thoo

17/09/2008

oooooo……….i’m pretty impressed of you, jess…
lol….is there anything that u’re not good at? 😛

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Vincent

17/09/2008

Woah.. Nice nice.. Warrior Queen eh? HEAR ME ROAR N SMELL MA ARMPITTS!!! lol..

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jėss.T

18/09/2008

awww shadyz sumtimes i wanna ajak u along. but then scared u phaiseh cos u dunno my frens ma. =)
anyway, u WONT GO WAN.. knowing u. blekk

heyhey christ thankew that’s really sweet of u. =) well, yeah.. there is sumth im not good at. time management. UGH.

haahhaha vinz SMELL MY SWEET N SOUR ARSE~!!!!

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Jamie

20/09/2008

wow.. u r so pretty in those outfit!

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jėss.T

20/09/2008

thanks lots jamie!!
=) but… pretty? not freaky meh?

HAAHAHAHA

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rachelK

20/09/2008

hey hey ,, sorry cant make it tatz nite . i really wanna go , but ish !=( im working.. =(=(

but it look really nice and alot fun there ..
warrior queen … !! cool man . =)

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