Oh how pree-tee you look in Swan Lake!
Last night I went with my mum, dad and sister to watch the Trocks. When I first found out they were coming to Singapore, I e-mailed my dad if he wanted to go and his initial reply was, "Why you ask me to go watch a bunch of poofters dance?" After enumerating the various reasons why he should go - "Cos you know, watching men dance in tutus and en pointe is really funny!" and "it's sorta culture, ballet what!", eventually managed to persuade him to go (also cos then he'll pay for my ticket harhar).
It was quite funny, but then again, men in drag is always funny. I wonder why? If you can ignore the hairy chests and the too muscly-to-be-gurls bods, the emm...'ballerinas' were actually very good. Some of the pointe work and pirouettes would put some real ballerinas to shame. Too bad we were sitting waaay up in Circle 2 to see the facial expressions. My favourite was the Dying Swan, although this dying swan was more like a dying moulting swan. Swan Lake was funny too, with a flock of crazed swans and super-effeminite prince. Heh heh.
Gripe 1: Lovey-dovey couple (yech) sitting next to me did not clap at all. Not a single time during the performance, not in between acts or at the end when they took their bows. Then you go watch for what?
Gripe 2: Theatre was half-full, so how come we cannot move forward to get better seats?
Aiyah, I so suck at writing reviews, at least for performances. Better read the one by Life! lah.
4 comments:
maybe lovey dovey couples had their hands full? heh
cldnt you sneak to the better seats?
Eew! No, their hands were very well-behaved, phew! They were just lazy buggers.
And couldn't sneak to better seats cos those 'Splade ushers are vultures, I tell ya! You move one step down and VOOM! they're on to you.
as a homophobic, I would like to protest against such shows.
Now I feel like going to watch it.
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