I just got back from KLPAC, from another performance. Tonight was the opening night performance for ‘Three.’ A story told purely through dance and background music about people you meet in heaven. Can you take a guess that it is inspired from the famous book by Mitch Albom’s “Five People You Meet In Heaven? This is the story that resulted from it, directed by Helena Foo. Join in on their Facebook ‘Three.’ or you can read about it from the Editors Recommendation at Kakiseni.

The plays cast members were Lorna Hoong (met her at the Uncut, Untitled, Paperhouse Audition), Wong Wai Hoong (I’ve met long ago during the aerobic days and haven’t seen him in ages), Nicole-Ann Thomas, Payal Vashist (who’s from my acting class at KLPAC – Babes so proud of you1) and Soni Deol. The story is about a girl who finds her self in the afterlife. In heaven she meets her guardian angel, and three other people that mattered most in her life. As she goes through these moments, she learns to accept the way she lived her life. The performance began with a very foggy and dimly lit stage, with nothing but a doorway to what looked like the entrance to a plane. All the characters are already in position on the dark stage with the main character, the girl (Lorna) on the floor in a distorted position. Before anything begins, we find that she has died in the aircraft and a slideshow presentation is shown on the floor, which represented the girls life, flashing before our eyes. The slideshow ends and the play begins. The music was played by a live band – I’ll talk about the music later. You see the girl, with what appears to be with broken limbs struggling off the floor and her Guardian Angel (Wong) helps her get on to her feet. As she gets on her feet, the mood changes and she meets with Lust, Temptation and Seduction all represented by Payal. LTS toys around with the girl and as the girl’s Guardian tries to help her, he too is then drawn in to the swirl of seduction. The girl and her Guardian are pulled by invisible strings by LTS. It is only when the girl comes to her senses she is able to fight of LTS and knock sense back in to her Guardian who is disappointed that he has let her down. The girl then meets her mother, whom she lost to breast cancer when she was younger. It was a very touching and tender moment. The mother (Nicole) mimed most of her actions which I thought was beautifully done, with simple actions such as the scooping up of coffee or something, hanging the clothes and tenderly touching the girls features. The last person the girl meets is her lover. Another female who once took her breath away but stole her heart away in the end. In other words something bad must’ve transpired between the two ‘lovers’. The show starts to end with the girl, finally realising that her relationship with her girlfriend was really not meant to be and was wrong to begin with. She then starts to take control and does a frustrated dance which flows into her solo of acceptance.

Now on to the music. The music was played by a live band consisting of Nick Davis, Julio Singho, Tony Selvaraj and Andrew Wong. All amazing and talented. The music was excellent and I wouldn’t mind listening to just the score itself. I hope that they actually make it into an album for I would pay to listen to it again. The choreography done by Miss Kerry Ann Khoo was simple and suited to the abilities of the performers who aren’t all professional dancers. The body movements of Lorna in my personal opinion were brilliant at the beginning. Out of all the dances my favourite has to be the intro of the girl and her Guardian Angel. The relationship between the two characters was in a lovely form of dance and control. For those who missed it. You can at least catch a glimpse of what it’s like behind the scenes and some of the music. I highly recommend anyone out there who loves the arts to go see this show. A simple yet touching piece. Tickets are still available at KLPAC. So just go on here.