Yesterday was the first run of the show “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” by the Footstool Players. Held at Segi College and hosted by Agape Church, I think the show went fairly well! All thanks to The Father in Heaven.
To give a bit of a background on ”Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, it is show with 13 sketches all acted out by 7 actors. Each of the sketches is a story within themselves, with no relation to one another. The stories deal issues that are unresolved that revolve around the topic of relationships and love. Hence the title “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”. Be it relationships with your family members, broken homes, and even between couples who are just starting out.
I never thought of it this way, but while Jon was praying for the team last Thursday, he said this..”Lord, thank you for making us nervous. For it is when we are nervous that we look to you.” I had never seen in that light before. It’s always usually so natural for a request to God saying something like, please don’t make me nervous, take away me feelings of anxiousness. But i had never thought to thank the Lord for making me nervous.. and for that I want to thank Jon for that moment of realisation. It’s true actually… when we are in dire need, that we will shift our eyes above and seek Him with all our might.
As always, when we focus and cast our eyes on God, things will go in place.
After many months of rehearsals, and days of getting lines crammed into the head. It all worked out for the better. The thing with theatre, is that you can never do the same performance you did the night before. Which is alright because it is always a new experience and yet another opening night (as how my music conductor would say from Ismail). With that, the characters one develops for a play, takes you on a journey. Along the way you learn a number of things.. not just about the play of course, but also about yourself.
In this case, about the relationships you have with the people around you. With those who are close to you. Even though I may play 3 different characters, but I learnt something from each of them..
I’m rambling, back on to the story of the first day…
Nerves were all over the place and even more so because we have never performed in the college auditiorium before, which accommodated about 300 people, more than the usual number of people we rehearse for at SJGC. Hence we had to project a lot more, which was a bit worrying at first because we all had to make a conscious effort to raise our voices much more than the usual levels we were accustomed to. But no matter.. adapt and work with it.
Here we are getting ready by bringing all the props up to the auditiorium. Usually for those who know how Footstool Players work, is that they produce plays that are minimalist, using very few props and not much chnage of clothing. This time was a bit more different and we had a lot more stuff to carry.
After the show we took a picture with the teens of Agape church, who were busy ushering in people to their seats and also helping us take down our props and lighting.
Thanks Agape!
I don’t think I’ve ever had a crowd so close to the stage..
The crowd was very responsive which was great for the comedic plays haha. As actors we really feed of the crowd when they start to warm up to us, which was a good thing and pushed us on to do better than expected. There a few minor hiccups like the a handphone causing some interference to the speakers, a baby crying somewhere in the middle and a number of laughs which we never thought we would get in certain serious moments for some of the plays. Even still it all went well. Lines went well, tech went well and sound went well.. couldn’t ask for anything more
After the show we took a picture with the teens of Agape church, who were busy ushering in people to their seats and also helping us take down our props and lighting.
Thanks Agape!
