Monday, August 17, 2009

Lost? Deal With It - The Things We Have Lost @ PJLA Jaya One

The Electric Minds Project presented The Things We Have Lost at the Lightbox Theatre, PJLA, Jaya One, PJ from 12th August to 16 August.

From PJLA Website.

I managed to watch the performance yesterday (Sunday) as a Palm Production's part-time crew. No photos we allowed to be taken.

There were 5 different scenes that relates to lost, and as mentioned in The Electric Minds Project website, about grief, despair, abandonment, and hope.

A woman with a gun tries to fix her relationship. Three children contemplate selling a house, and their memories of it, one after the other. A mother grieves for her child in an unusually cruel fashion. Friends sift through the ashes of their previous lives. Two lovers contemplate eternity, the view from their rooftop, and moving to Mongolia.

Picture from The Electric Minds Project website

A woman with a gun tries to fix her relationship.
A very extreme way to mend a broken heart with a gun pointed at your boyfriend.

A mother grieves for her child in an unusually cruel fashion.
The baby is not even her child. The husband had to give the child back, so she blames him.

Friends sift through the ashes of their previous lives.
Their house was burnt to the ground. Lesson learned, do not smoke in bed.

Two lovers contemplate eternity, the view from their rooftop, and moving to Mongolia.
I wasn't paying attention to the dialog. I was admiring the luggage bag prop. From the roof top, everybody looks like ants.

Three children contemplate selling a house, and their memories of it, one after the other.
2 sisters and a gay brother, back home for their mother's funeral. An emotional ending with one of the sister playing the "air" piano.


The actors and actresses did a good job in expressing the emotions of each scene.

WARNING! Not suitable for children as they would get bored with the dialogues and parents/guardian would have a hard time explaining the ^$@*&!# words to them during the performance.

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