The play “What did you learn today?” was very different from all the others plays which I have watched. It is different in the sense that the play was very interactive meaning that the actors literally engaged the audience during the play. This play only consist of various characters played by only two actors, they are; Lim Kay Siu and Neo Swee Lin. I think that both the actors were very expressive and really entertaining.
The whole structure of the play was broken down into smaller stories here and there. Honestly, I was very confused during the play as to what was happening. As for example, at first Lim Kay Siu played a small child and Neo Swee Lin played the mother, and consequently in a few scenes, they showed how they met when they were younger till they got married and grew old. There was also a scene that I liked very much showing a student’s perspective during a lesson in school where Kay Siu was a student and Swee Lin was the teacher. When she was teaching all we could hear was “BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH” I thought it was very funny as it really portrays what some of us hear during our various lessons.
After watching various stories I realized that maybe these little stories portrayed are linked together. For example, the stories are like a summary of Kay Siu’s and Swee Lin’s overall childhood, school life where they had doubts and how they both met and got together. I think it was a rather interesting way of portraying what they wanted to get across to the audience.
From the structure of the play, I learnt that to convey a message across to the audience we could always find other ways to do it other than the conventional ways of acting out from the starting to the end. Also I found it impressive at how both actors were able to change their characters by changing their facial expression, posture, and tone of voice so quickly and most importantly it was very convincing from the audience point of view, which all the more made it very entertaining. This is definitely worth learning.
I think the most impactful thing in this play was the meditation segment where people are to voice their thoughts out loud on a topic like “what I would like to learn”. Many people responded during this meditation period. During this period it really allows us to think and reflect on ourselves of what we want to do in life and more. Also it allows us to hear what others think which sometimes are topics that are also true about ourselves and we can relate to them. They had the meditation segment 3 times throughout the whole play.
Lastly, Lim Kay Siew and Neo Swee Lin started to share their own childhood stories. I think it was nice that they were able to share their childhood stories with the audience so openly.
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