Please find listed below the drama elements being prepared for NOMAD 2008 thus far. All items will be presented during the NOMAD Finale Preview and Finale from the 3rd to the 5th of July 2008.
Drama Club
Facilitator: Amelia George
Title: Night Market
Synopsis: The play “The Night Bazaar” presented here by the AMKSS Drama Club offers a glimpse into the private lives of street hawkers who make their living, and find meaning in their lives in the common arena of the Night Bazaar. Directed by Amelia George, in association with ACT3 Drama Academy, come lose yourself in this night of dreams and nostalgia.
Additional Performances:
30th May 2008: AMK Blk 325a Open Area; Admission Free
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Secondary 2-1
Facilitator: Serena Ho
Title: Red House (Naturalistic)
Synopsis: Inspired by the Pasir Ris Red House, two stone lions stand in front of it. People today believe that they are lucky lions, they go to pray to these lions. Hoping they will bless them with lucky numbers. Some say that these lion’s eyes glow at midnight, and sometimes they roar! Did a murder take place in this house in the 60s? Fact or Fiction you decide. Class 2(1) will tell you their version of this tale….
Secondary 2-2
Facilitator: Kong Yit Sim
Title: I Want (Naturalistic)
Synopsis: I want is a play about how Singaporeans in the 1960s tried to make lives better for themselves in the midst of difficulties.
Xiao Fen, a blind girl, is determined to attend a singing competition to earn herself a place in school. However, her grandma has a sense of foreboding about the whole venture and does not feel comfortable allowing Xiao Fen to attend the competition that afternoon. Meanwhile, a group of construction workers are being unfairly treated by their boss. Ah Xiong, the foreman, tries to reason out with him. Find out how Xiao Fen, grandma and the group of workers cross paths on that fateful day as they grit their teeth to achieve what they want in life.
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Work In Progress – Scene Creation
Work in Progress – Questions for Actors
Work in Progress – Script as of 13 May 2008
Secondary 2-3
Facilitator: Serena Ho
Ah Kong’s Coffeeshop (Installation)
The sight of ‘choping’ seats with tissue paper packets. Children playing on their PSP. The blind man and his wife going from table to table selling tissue paper. 70 year old woman cleaning tables. Eating from disposable plastic spoons and disposable wooden chopsticks. This is our ‘kopitiam’ today. Peeping toms. Women waiting for news from the mid-wife. 30cents for a trishaw ride. What was it like in those days? We can only imagine, let class 2(3) take us there. KOPI-O anyone?
Secondary 2-4
Facilitator: Oniatta Effendi
Title: Its Shaw Time!
Synopsis: 1964 marks not only a separation of 2 nations – but that of an iconic personality in the Malay Film Industry from the Shaw Brothers. Secondary 24 re-live these moments in what might be a hilarious English adaptation of the famous 1964 comedy “Tiga Abdul”.
Secondary 2-5
Facilitator: Noorlinah Mohamed
Title: HDB Life (Puppetry)
Synopsis: The concept of ‘high-rise’ living in the 60s was a 5 to 10-storey high HDB flat. A new experience for many Kampung dwellers. Secondary 25 explores the different and often hilarious voices and experiences of living in the HDB flats from the perspectives of the builders and the Kampung dwellers; the young and the old; the past and the present.
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Work in Progress – Script at Term 2 Week 1
Work in Progress – Script at Term 2 Week 4
Secondary 2-A
Facilitator: Noorlinah Mohamed
Title: Nightmare (Shadow Play)
Synopsis: A boy falls asleep in class and finds himself trapped in a hellish nightmare that he can never get out of. Join 2A in creepy shadow play as they transport you into a world of ghouls and spirits.
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Work in Progress – Script at Term 2 Week 4
Secondary 2-B
Facilitator: Serena Ho
Title: Fight Fire with Fire! (Naturalistic)
Synopsis: “We have never broken the peace of our beloved country….IF WE FIGHT EACH OTHER, MALAYSIA WILL BE DESTROYED, AND SO WILL ALL OF US.” July 22 1964, the Acting Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak, made an appeal for calm.
Today we live in HDBs. We have our own toilets, water from the taps, cooking stoves. We also hang out clothes on galas out to dry. And sometimes it rains.
“Will peace last forever?”
Secondary 2-C
Facilitator: Serena Ho
Title: The Legend of Pulau Hantu (Movement Theatre)
Synopsis: Island of ghosts – Pulau Hantu is actually 2 islets, Pulau Hantu Besar (Big Ghost Island) and Pulau Hantu Kechil (Small Ghost Island) They say 2 Malay warriors fought to their death and their spirits live on the islands. How did they die? How did these islets form? Class 2C tells the story.
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