Day 2.

Show number 2: Dec 3th, Saturday night - 8.30pm

my family came to watch tonight.

once again, the day started innocently enough. i woke up at around 11 ish am. i bummed around a bit. had lunch. in the afternoon, at 2.30 pm - i decided to go work out (kickboxing) a bit. looking to rid myself of some of the opening night's jitters. and i believe it worked. i felt a lot more relaxed after kickboxing.

after kickboxing - i went to pick Roshan up. had a quick drink with him and as usual went to Calvyn's house where we met Colin as well. the Saturday traffic was very mild and as such we got to KLPAc at about 5.35 pm ... and since we only left Calvyn's house at 5.15 pm - that was good time. met up with the rest of the cast. joked about for a bit. then at 6 pm, we all started with our own personal warm-ups first. then we got together and did many physical warm ups together and together we also did a vocal warm up with Joe. the opening night jitters were not really there anymore. things felt more comfortable.

after the warm ups - Joe sat us all down and we received his 'notes' from last night's performance. as i expected, we were told that we put up an overall good performance the night before. but of course, we all know that we are capable of doing a whole lot better. Joe shared with each of us what he thought we lacked in particular scenes and how we can remedy the shortcomings from the night before.

taking in everything he said, i believe that we put a much stronger show tonight as compared to the night before. personally speaking, i felt that i did a whole lot better than yesterday - so i'm quite happy. some quirks here and there ... very subtle quirks that i of course hope to remedy. i was basically told that my character came across very lethargic the night before ... as opposed to a more energetic interpretation of the character as how i normally play it. so i believe that i managed to slip back into my energetic self tonight and am quite happy.

however, i felt i lacked a little in terms of being more sure of my body language - which is my next goal to remedy.

in fact, i felt everybody gave very strong performances tonight. the heated scene between Brutus (Ari Ratos) and Cassius (Patrick Teoh) close to the end was exceptionally stronger tonight - in my opinion ... well - as i said earlier lah - i felt we put on a better show tonight. and hopefully the curve continues along those lines...

i feel good tonight. and my family liked the play. i'm not sure what my Father thought of it. he is known to sleep through all my other plays. he didn't really say much about the play except that he thought that nobody in the cast sounded M'sian (said in a very neutral manner - so not sure if he meant it in a bad way or a good way) ... except for me ... apparently i sounded very M'sian. (i honestly don't know what to make of that comment).

anyway, it felt good tonight. i look forward to hearing Joe's notes tomorrow about our performance.

that's it for now. g'night y'all.