bbrrrrrr.....

... it's cold in melbourne. don't ask me how cold though, cos it's after 12mn here and despite catching a good Chinese play, or rather, i feel so languid after catching the play AND later on Mel Gibson in a tv re-run of What do women really want? that I don't really want to find out the temp that's causing me to sneeze twice in the past 2 sec.

Oh ya... about that play I caught with my friend Ruth. It's called Alice in Wonderland, by Fishnet Productions (Melbourne Uni's student theatre group). It's set in a different context, more modern i guess. The protaganist is still a young idealistic girl but this time instead of getting lost in a rabbit hole, she ends up auditioning for a really weird theatre company, which really makes for good theatre. If you have a theatre company with really straitlaced and morally upright characters it'll be so boring that i guess it'll close shop in no time ;p

so she goes in thinking of getting her big break as the next superstar, only to be rudely awaken to the realities of bitchy egos, slutty co-stars and a cynical management. Basically the story is about how she gets frustrated for having to change herself to please everyone except herself, and in the end she still ends up with nothing. So in the end she decides to leave the company for greener pastures.

A simple plot actually, which I guess is the whole point of staging a play cos I think it's hard enough to get simple ideas across on stage to the average audience (which they did try to make a reference of during the part where the actors/scriptwriters get together to brainstorm and they dissed this really bright idea from "Alice", cos if they can't understand it how can the uncultured, undiscerning audience of today ever understand it?? don't think i'm making much sense here but anyway it's my blog so...)

a rather humourous and inspiring show, considering not only that it's a student production but they managed to pull together everything in just 6 weeks' time, which is no simple feat on its own (and that's on top of school work, tests, assignments etc etc)... just shows how much one can acheive with the right spirit and determination ^o^

p.s.: jus caught brokeback mountain on my laptop yesterday. so sad... *sob sob*