Up Close & Personal

Up Close and Personal Poster

2008 - Up Close & Personal

6 plays taken from 6 lives. A night of nothing but the truth. Up Close & Personal. How often do you get to hear it from the horses mouth?

Starring: Faizal Abdullah, Nina M. Kosasih, Rebecca Birch, Ross Nasir, Tian Lye and Yazid Jalil

Date of performance: 14th - 17th August 2008

Venue: Telok Ayer Performing Arts Center - Blackbox

Directed by: Sugiman Rahmat

Staring: Faizal Abdullah, Nina Mareta, Ross Nasir, Rebecca Burch, Yazid Jalil and Joanne Ng, (Nominated Best Actress for the Straits Times Life! Awards 2006)

Time: 8pm shows (14th, 15th, 16th, 17th) 3pm shows (16th & 17th) T

ickets: $15, $12 (Students), $10 (Group bookings for schools) ORDER OF PLAYS Don’t friend you Written by: Lewin Bernard It only takes 3 words. 3 tiny words created by one tiny evil genius. 3 simple words, that creates a domino effect of misfortune and misunderstanding on one poor soul. Julius. Is it just sheer bad luck? Or was it all his doing? Follow Julius through his journey of a life of unacceptence. Let’s just hope he’s strong enough. My Secret Written by: Nina Mareta A story about a girl whose life became a secret towards her parents. She longed for her Mom's tenderness and a stroke on the back by her Dad. All that she wanted was sharing her life with her parents and support from them. Not the strict rules that her parent had created. Me and The Book of My Future Written by: Joanne Ng Imagine this, a 6-month year old foetus, minding your own business, just floating around, getting sleepy and as you slowly drift off to sleep, WHAM, you hear this voice. And then it shoves a book in your hand. A book about your future and asks you to make a choice. Choose how you want to die. What would you choose? The Demented. Written by: Ross Nasir A state of mind from nothing. Does boredom make sense? Lynn drives herself from her room to different sections of her past to justify her current state of mind, a moment of solitude. Is it easier recognised as loneliness or more familiarised with boredom. Blackout Written by: Faizal Abdullah Ridwan. Male. 24. Straight. Curious. Muslim. How it must feel to be a Muslim boy. Around boys. Around girls. Around alcohol. Around clubs. Around easy girls. How? How to react? How to behave? How to not get found out? And what about that one person? How can one go from loving a person to almost utter despise at the sight of that person? What, why, who makes it so? A Muslim boy. And his relationships. With his parents. With his girl. With stranger girls. With his drink. With his partying. With his grandmother. So many questions. But no worries… Have a Blackout. Ode to Life Written by: Rebecca Burch Life. The bottom line is, we live to die. Jewel is uncomfortable facing the fact. She never will. Death scares her. Yet she wonders. Always wonders. And takes it out on her piano keys. They comfort her.

Back in 2008, Up Close and Personal was my only second production as a director. Lots to learn and still a long way to go but I am glad with my visual background the collaboration outcome was positive and emotionally stunning.