A TWISTED TALE 2008
...it was my first time ever to create a drama group for the school. With so little background and very limited knowledge on the drama concept, it was a nerve wrecking experience for an amateur. School drama competitions in YouTube weren't not so popularly uploaded in those days as the thought of doing some researches and extra homework online about it would do me good. Divisional PKG wasn't helping either and I was going nowhere but kept hitting the square peg.
It hit me back then, about a poem learnt by the Form 4 classes ~ "si Tenggang homecoming" would be a simple folklore to be dramatized...but as we (me and the students) worked on the script, we didn't realize that we were getting deeper and thicker into the plot. The story line seemed endless and once again, I was devastated.
"Teacher, we know that Tenggang turned into a stone, cursed by his mom...why not make it the other way round?" said Lipa (in Iban).
"What do you have in mind?" I asked.
"Turn the mother into stone instead..." he said blankly. Hmmmm... this kid must have a lot of things going on at home, I thought.
"Now, that's really ..... interesting." I replied and my mind started to whirl like a movie projector.
...so, the ending was really twisted. Tenggang's mum went to a witch doctor to create a spell on him (she was mad that Tenggang came back with a foreign wife)... an evil spell was created with one condition...the spell would only worked if Tenggang's homecoming was really evil too.
...well, the rest was history...
It hit me back then, about a poem learnt by the Form 4 classes ~ "si Tenggang homecoming" would be a simple folklore to be dramatized...but as we (me and the students) worked on the script, we didn't realize that we were getting deeper and thicker into the plot. The story line seemed endless and once again, I was devastated.
"Teacher, we know that Tenggang turned into a stone, cursed by his mom...why not make it the other way round?" said Lipa (in Iban).
"What do you have in mind?" I asked.
"Turn the mother into stone instead..." he said blankly. Hmmmm... this kid must have a lot of things going on at home, I thought.
"Now, that's really ..... interesting." I replied and my mind started to whirl like a movie projector.
...so, the ending was really twisted. Tenggang's mum went to a witch doctor to create a spell on him (she was mad that Tenggang came back with a foreign wife)... an evil spell was created with one condition...the spell would only worked if Tenggang's homecoming was really evil too.
...well, the rest was history...
English Language Drama Competition:
Achievements:
Venue: SM Vocational ~ Betong Divisional Level: 1st place
Venue: Dewan Suarah, Sri Aman ~ State Level : 2nd runner up
Achievements:
Venue: SM Vocational ~ Betong Divisional Level: 1st place
Venue: Dewan Suarah, Sri Aman ~ State Level : 2nd runner up
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This play was during the divisional level competition in SM Vocational and the noise was hindering some of the dialogues. I have another copy which was taken during the state level and it was clearly filmed with other schools taking part. However, the vid file was too large and I couldn't bother to compress it. I'll try to download the next year's (2009) competition which was in Betong (state level) into YouTube.
2010 was a bad year. We won the competition again (..3 consecutive years..) but wasn't being invited for the state level which was in Kuching. I was totally angry and mad that year. In 2011, I boycotted the competition.
2010 was a bad year. We won the competition again (..3 consecutive years..) but wasn't being invited for the state level which was in Kuching. I was totally angry and mad that year. In 2011, I boycotted the competition.