Theater - TIGA

TIGA was a theater that was produced by scriptwriter with 3 scripts based on 3 objects. Tiga’s first edition will see Sharifah Aleysha presenting 3 new scripts based on three objects which are bed, chair and knife.

It is my last theater that I watched in this semester. I feel fresh about this theater because the story line is not related to other story even though the scriptwriter try to reflect the women’s emotion in today society.

BED
Bed was a first story to present in today’s theater. The story was talking about a young woman battles with the idea of possession in a relationship. In the beginning of story, the actress woke up from the bed and started to imagine she had a conversation with her boyfriend. She was trying to use different ways like expression and action to show the idea of possession in a relationship.

I felt a bit curious about some movement or action such as the actress walk along the edge of the bed and she used the sheet wrap around herself while standing on the bed. In previous time, I thought that walk along the edge of the bed was presenting the actress was doing the exercise while talking to her boyfriend. However, I have some idea about the movement and action through by Q&A section. She walked along the edge of bed and sheet wrap herself was trying to show she was struggling about the relationship and she was not allow her boyfriend betray her. Moreover, at the end of the story, even more of the women were struggling to accept or possession in a relationship, they need to learn tolerance between each other instead of conflict.

CHAIR

The second story – CHAIR was talking about a woman was trapped in her past. She was passed away long time ago, but she could not put down her and her mother’s past. CHAIR in this story was presented a place between heaven and hell. It is because the actress was very suffering in that area, she could not sit on the chair and always fell down from the chair. Moreover, she was always remembered her mother treat her very well and ask her to be what her mother expect. Sometimes, she would listen someone was calling her, but she could not see their face. Actually the person who called her was her mother, so that it caused her always suffering between heaven and hell. However, at the end of the story, finally she sat on the chair and to get peaceful. It is because maybe her mother was also passed away, so it was a way to release her suffered from that place.

KNIFE

KNIFE was a last story in this theater. It was about a woman discusses her sexuality in ways common but not so common to society. In this story, the actress used the way of making salad to present sex between men and women in this society such as cutting the vegetables, putting the salad sauce into the bowl and mix up everything in the bowl. She was trying to use all this material to show that before sex with your partner, you would pass through all this way just like making salad. Moreover, there was one important thing that you must do before you mix up the salad together. The important thing was wearing a pair of gloves, the gloves could not 100% to measure would not make your hand dirty. It was a same meaning that if you want to have a sex with your partner; condom could not 100% to prevent you to get a new life in your life. However, at the end of the story, the actress showed the gloves were broken means the condom were broken too, so the woman higher probability to get pregnant in her life. So, she felt very nervous about this kind of thing, but she realized that she could accept it in her life. The story showed normally women will think different aspect while this kind of thing happening in our lives.

SETTING

There are a few of experiments are created by the director, actresses and stage managers.

1. CHAIR – The director used the wood chair instead of others material chair to present the story is because of lighting can show different types of perspective. The lighting will affect the colour of the wood chair and it will show the time changes between past and present while the woman is trapped in a loop.
2. KNIFE – The actress sees and holds the knife with a sinister smile. It makes me to think that the story will be presented in how the knife can hurt someone, but it is not. The knife is only a supporting item in this story.
3. KNIFE – When the performance is going on, the actress invites a male audience to play the show with her which is preparing salad with a “SPECIAL” voice. It makes everyone laugh and suddenly I have an idea to know what the story will talk about.
4. KNIFE – The director asked the actress to wear a “tundung” to present the story. It is because he wants to test the audience perception in this story. Since it is a story to talk about sex and as a Malay should not present this kind of thing in open situation, so he try to test our perception about this.

In this theatre, there is not much catharsis to bring out. As a woman, I will plan to do some research about the women’s thinking in this society. For example, is all the women will yield in a relationship? Is all the women would accept sex and to get pregnant before married?