Just when I was feeling worried about my upcoming sociology test, I recieved my econ test results.Yea not bad ...haha he wanted to put an initial grade A but he didn't want people to be complacent. K lah..I am happy with it. That motivated me to continue working hard for my sociology test!Together with other good grades for my tests and assignments, Yea~~I shall reward myself with a few items!! Have to do some 'research' to find out what I should buy as my rewards. (^_^)
We went to Pizza Hut at Suntec City for our lunch before attending the play- Pillowman at the The Singapore Repertory Theatre. Saw a group of boys and girls having the gothic style...cool. Wah we spent a long time at the Pizza Hut and had to rush to the venue. Hurried off to Clarke Quay mrt station and realised that we didn't exactly know the place is.I thought she knew the route. Running out of time and we couldn't possibly walk there from the mrt station. Decided to take the cab and thank goodness we were just in time.
The Synopsis of the Pillowman
Katurian, a writer of 400 terrifying short stories, has been newly prisoned in a nameless totalitarian country. Katurian is questioned by Tupolski and Ariel, who scale new heights of brutality - and black humour - with their new version of the good cop / bad cop mind game. Along the way, the reasons for the storyteller's capture are revealed in a viciously entertaining cat- and- mouse game that has you on the edge of your seat.
Tupolski was acted by Adrian Pang. Wah it is an honour seeing him act in real life!! The whole cast was talented. The language used by all of them sure was strong- lots of vulgarities and British slang. It was really black humour and brutal descriptions of how the children were killed. I don't get it why people laugh at something so gruesome.Eg: the kid who described herself as Little Jesus being buried alive by her foster parents, the kid whose toes were chopped and he just stood there dumbfounded. There were real cases of kids being killed the exact way like how Katurian's stories were. Well, that's why he was arrested because the policemen suspected that Katurian had something to do with it. Katurian was innocent. Not only that, the policemen told him that his brother was kept in another prison cell for investigation purposes. Katurian was getting worried and begged them not to torture his brother and he wanted to see him to make sure that he is alright.
Finally, Katurian went to the same prison cell as him. To his horror, it turned out that it was actually his brother's (Michal) doings. Michal wasn't aware that he was doing something bad. His brother was not a normal kid (with special needs) because in the past, Michal was locked in a room and was so-called experimented (tortured) by his parents for 7 years. Katurian didn't know the presence of his brother because that room was always kept locked and his parents were so loving to him. Every night, he would hear drilling sounds from that locked room but the parents often told him that it was just a figment of his imagination. After 7 years, his curiosity got the better of him and he went to open the locked door. He saved the brother and he smothered his parents to death with a pillow. Then Katurian buried the parents near a well behind their house.
At the end of the day, both Katurian and Michal have to be executed. Katurian didn't want Michal to die such a terrible death. While Michal was sleeping after listening to a story spun by Katurian on the spot, Katurian decided to smother him too with a pillow. The policemen sympathized with what he had gone through because it wasn't his fault and he killed his parents because of what horror he had done to his brother. I didn't expect them to continue on the plans with shooting him dead. Tulposki shot him in the head and I jumped out of my seat...too sudden le.
That's about it..haha roughly how the plot is about. The play's duration was around 3 hours. Then we headed home...Bye-beee~~
