gissy truly sux.

Saturday, June 25, 2005

Hey there! Again, I must say, so so so much has happened. Some.. too personal. Shan't say it. But we had Drama rehearsal yesterday!

I can't believe I cried so bad.. My drama SYF piece, in case you didn't know, was:

After the war(No, this isn't part of the script), the victorious country apologises for the war, and offers compensation to the losing one. The whole play's set in the courtroom(something like that, but smaller), and there is one judge. The judge makes it clear that compensation will be given to those who lost their family members during the war, those who suffered debilitating injuries, and those who were forced to engage in certain activities in the service of enemy troops.

So! There is one judge, and 6 other characters there to claim compensation. Around 5 million lives were lost in the war, and they(victorious country) have built a war memorial made of stone, top-grade granite from their country's own quarries to honour the dead. No names on the large tombstone; even a humble tombstone has a name on it. It is symbolic, the judge says.

In addition, everybody will receive a certificate "personally" signed by the Prime Minister. The six characters ask if the certificates are signed in his own blood. The judge tells them that it is a photocopy, and, when the information is met with with angry outbursts- It is symbolic, the judge says.

Character one(Kamani) seeks compensation: She wants a new body. After her husband died in the war as a soldier, she felt as though she was using an artificial body. There is no way the judge can help her.. he can only give her a new, artificial body. -DENIED-

Character two(Dazzlyn) seeks compensation: She was here the previous day, but for a different woman. She was a comfort woman during the war, and to keep herself from going crazy because she had to serve twenty men in one night, she created a different girl for every soldier who visited her. She creates different characters for them, and she can really see them. She can hear them. She wants to get rid of them because they fight so much, but she can't.. She is indebted to them. She wouldn't have been able to live on. She plans to come back again, to claim compensation for another woman. -DENIED-

Character three(Me) seeks compensation: She lost her fiance during the war, and she sewed a wedding dress for herself because she was so poor. Her fiance had proposed to her, and had given her a ring with his name engraved on the inside. She comes to claim the compensation she so desperately needs and deserves, anxiously(because the previous two weren't approved), but finds that another woman, in a wedding dress and with the exact same ring came to claim the compensation for the same man. The judge tells her that the settlement can be divided equally between the two women. She is torn apart mentally, and feelings of betrayal, rage, confusion and grief causes her to go into a mild state of hysteria. Just before she leaves, she asks if the other woman was pretty. The judge says "She wore a wedding dress, just like you." and she nods "I suppose she still managed to retain her figure.", then laughs a little when the judge says "No, it didn't fit too well on her either." -DENIED-

Character four(Bhavna) seeks compensation: She lost her child during the war, not because he was killed by the bombings, but because it was unsafe to go out to the hospital. The baby was running a fever and he couldn't stop crying. When he died, they had no choice but to bury him in their garden. Now, their garden is filled with fruits and vegetables. She gives the judge tomatoes from her garden and the judge begins to eat it. The vegetables that grow in her garden never grow beyond a certain size. See the symbolism of the tomatoes and her kid? She even invites the soldiers and the judge to her house for a feast. A grand but delicate feast of fruits and vegetables from her garden. A little spooky... It is as good as forcing them to eat her baby. -DENIED-

Character five(Nadia) seeks compensation: Her daughter stepped on a land mine two years after the war and lost a leg. Now, she needs a new prosthetic leg for her daughter because her daughter painted her toenails and they melted. She's a little cuckoo, and she speaks to the leg as though it really is her daughter. -APPROVED-

Character six(Nikita) doesn't seek any compensation: She is here to judge the judge and see what the judge has to say. She feels the pain of the other people though she is blind, and questions the judge on his/her feelings during the war. The judge is intimidated by her, and... This marks the end of our play. -NO TIME TO APPROVE OR DENY-

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