A Mask Fantasia

It all started bad. We didn't have a story or a plot. We had trouble and arguments. We were the worst group. We disappointed the teachers. A lot of us didn't show up for practices. But we hardcore at the end. 3 years of drama experience comes down to this day.
July 21st

A Mask Fantasia. Sirius Scholar production. This was our big theatre showcase for this year. We were performing in KLPAC (Kuala Lumpur Perofmeing Arts Centre) a professional stage.

6 months ago, our group had trouble, I could make out that most of us don't have the interest in it. How disappointing. Soon we had our story:

The story takes place in the 90s similar to the Noir film. Colours were missing from the world. The colours Black and White paid a witch to kidnap the primary colours, Red, Blue and Yellow. The Secondary Colours, Green, Orange, Purple and Brown hired the famous Detective Conor to investigate this case.

I played as the character Blue with David as Yellow and Liesl as Red. Adam was our detective and Yiting was the witch. Black and White were played by Kheng Yue and Ashley.

Lucky for us, we had an awesome, dramatic senior to help us out, we call him by the name of Fufu. Fufu was really nice to work with, he helped us with our character. But sometimes we went a little overboard with him.

21st July
PERFORMANCE DAY
The bus took us from pts to KLPAC. KLPAC is big. There is a field where stalls are set up. We went to our stage. It was so professional, the seats were like those in cinemas, there were doors and floating windows to make it more fantasy-like.   

There were 2 performances that day. One on the afternoon and one at night. Basically we have to perform twice in a day. :) 

Some of us finally got our hands on our costumes by lunch time. Mine was a beautiful strapless, long, dark blue dress, the front was shorter than the back. The other colours got their costumes as well. Liesl's was a red bollywood-ish dress and David's was a yellow coat with yellow pants. Tr Erica gave us hair spray and wanted us to spray our hair to our respective colours to make it more realistic. 

As Black, Kheng Yue wore a black trench coat and White, Ashley wore a short, white dress with a white fan. Liesl had a big red ribbon-pin. While I had a blue feather pin. 

3pm

Performance time!~

Doors open at 3pm sharp. The form 2s group went first. Still Life, Madness (form 2s), Beyond, Contrast (form 4s *I'm in Contrast*) then Fractured (form 5s). Contrast waited in dressing room 2 with Fufu. I wasn't that nervous as I know that the afternoon one wasn't really that scary as the night one. All the groups were good. My favourite was Fractured. Beyond was beautiful. 

STILL LIFE was about a few friends who were playing football. The football was kicked into a store. The captain went into the store to retrieve the ball, who knows mannequins came alive and captured the captain turning him into a mannequin. His friends found him but were captured as well. One of the mannequin helped them escape. And they escaped. 

MADNESS was about zombies. A detective was set to find a missing guy but ended up in the middle of a zombie chaos.

BEYOND was a beautiful, touching piece. Miranda had entered the Mirror World to find her father. The Hush welcomed her but were stopped by Illusious, ruler of Reflected. Miranda found her father but they can't escape together because the father created the Mirror World. This piece had myself and the audience in tears.

CONTRAST(ours) colours were missing from world. Detective Conor was hired by the secondary Colours to find the primary colours who were captured by the witch. Black and White paid the witch to captured them because people forgot about black and white when the colours come to the world.

FRACTURED was a deep,creepy play. John's life was never perfect. He was haunted by the 7 deadly sins. The leader of the sins (not sure about the name) takes John back to his past life, he was killed by the sins in the end. It gave me the chills and this was my favourite piece and it was a good end to Mask Fantasia.

6pm
We get yelled
I was worried about our play. Most of the teachers went to watch us in the afternoon play but half of the seats were filled. Teacher Erica, Weiyan, Reuben called us in.

Apparently, we did badly for the play. We did not had time to practice with the sound and light. There wasn't any tech-run. Form 2s energy was low. Beyond was beautiful, expected, with Bryan's work. Our play was the 2nd favoured by the audience. We were all happy and proud because we were the worst group. Fufu was proud too. But Fractured had a slow pacing and was a mess up. I was surprised because that was the best group aside Beyond.

With 2 hours to our night performance. We got dressed and did our final touch-up. With our hair spray and body paint. 2 hours passed by fast.

8pm
Doors opened
It was a full house at night. Contrast were in the dressing room, alone. Fufu got us into our character for the last time. We were at the very last stage. Our last owrodan in KLPAC. Soon, Still Life came back. I was chilling with my colours, camwhoring. No big deal.

Finally it was our moment to shine. My heart was pounding but I managed to keep my cool. I went out and did 2 scenes. The first scenes was easy because I had to be fainted. Last scene though had actions but that didn't stop
me. I just think of any other rehearsals we did previously.

10pm
We did our curtain call and we cheered loudly. The night showcase was soo much better than the afternoon one, I could tell. I was really proud and happy. I got comments from my friends that we were good but the choice will be made by the teachers. And it did turned out good luckily. We were on the very edge of getting cut off (not allowed to perform on stage) we were considered very lucky.

We had to cleaned up our dressing rooms before we could leave. The bus back to our school leaves at 10.45pm. I was helping (Ofcourse) haha. We changed into our own clothes and returned our costumes. :( 

Next thing I know, I was snoozing in the bus.

Till today, I miss KLPAC,staybacks, my costumes. I still have my mask and tag. I miss Fufu. But most of all, I miss my character. this was the best showcase ever. Never in my life I regretted joining drama. 

End.