The Minister's Wife

So while people dragged their bodies to the PSC fair, or some other fun activity or recuperating from Friday's Sports Carnival, I went to watch a comedy called the Minister's Wife. After being panfully rejected by 20 people to watch The Hypochondriac (which I eventually failed to get a ticket anyway), I have decided not to ask too many people this time round. I'm probably the only one in school to be willing to pay double the price of a school band/guitar/whatever concert to watch strangers perform, instead of my friends. (Sorry to Yingxian and Yue Zhi for not buying your band tickets over the past 4 years.) Not that I doubt my friends' skills. Big conjecture: I also feel that non-performing-arts people in my school are seriously not into the arts, and just attend concerts to please their friends.

So I was in the Black Box (National Library), watching the comedy without any familiar company. So it's about an MP expecting an important guest, Michael Han. However, another guest, a Michael Tan (who is your Ah Beng), from the grassroots, came to the MP's house to ask a favor from the MP. The MP's stupid wife mixed up the identities of the two guests, and instead told the real Michael Han of all the bashing against Michael Han which the MP told her. Along the way, it was revealed that the MP had a sex video with his maid.

However, the story never continued, because the play was apparently banned by the local authrotities. Then the 5 actors/actresses, dressed in their plain clothes, came forth and grumbled about the bureaucracy in Singapore, which eventually led to a 2 actors leaving, and another one committing suicide.

I'm not exactly pleased with the plot. Granted, it was an acceptable route to follow, and that the jokes got better as the play moved on. But still, veering off into an anti-society second half was a little too much. In short, the play got really angsty. But it is through this angst the creativity and acting skills of the actors got to shine. And because of this, it's very hard to come to a final decision about the play.

Alright, I will need to look for sponsorship for my next play that I'm going to watch.