Hey hey! Yoga here! I know...I'm posting...its awesome...
Anyways!
I noticed the blog's been stagnant for some time, so I am taking the liberty of posting up something just to keep things going so you guys can read and entertain yourselves...and yeah here it goes...
I have not been around for a few months so I couldn't see how you've guys really progressed, but this is what I can see when I come down on weekends... The acting side...
You guys are not putting in your 100%... not even 50%. I dont know why. I dont if this is really the case, and I pray that I am wrong, but I come down every week and see you guys perform the same mistakes, put up the same standard every week.
Honestly, I dont know if that is the way the scene was intended to be acted out, but I'm going to put it bluntly... Its not working guys.
Every week I see you guys goof off and play around DURING scenes. Its okay to goof off to let out steam... But not during a scene, especially YOURS. And its not ok to goof off during ANOTHER person's scene. It is rude. Its disrepectful. Its like talking loudly on your handphone and munching popcorn loudly and slurping up the last few drops of COKE in the middle of the climax of the ultimate summer blockbuster...People have been SHOT for that...
This is called discipline guys. Discipline that you as professional actors need to have.
Wait!
Did he say professional?
Why, yes I did.
Thats what you guys are now. You are all actors of an organization putting up a performance for a paying audience in a performance center. Whats not professional about it?
But whats not professional about you guys is your level of discipline. Your level of commitment. Your love for what you do.
Let me ask you guys a question?
Do you really want to act in Peter Pan?
Before you say yes (or if KC is reading this he will say no and say he's been forced to act against his will and blah blah...but he really wants to be here), ask yourself this.
Do you really really want to act in Peter Pan?
Cos the way i see it, it seems most of you dont really want to act and every Saturday, you guys are just going through the motions, doing the same routine. You've become lifeless robots regurgitating lines in an empty room, when you're supposed to be vibrant, artistic forms of energy creating adventures and weaving stories out of thin air.
But you guys are not doing that.
Why?
Maybe you guys dont really know what you want out of Peter Pan.
Maybe you all dont know what Peter Pan wants out of you...
You guys are lacking A vision... A dream...
I cant tell you guys what that dream is supposed to be. I cant tell you what we are working towards...
Its something that you guys as Cast have to sit down and ask yoursleves. When was the last time that all the cast members sat down by themselves and talked to each other about the problems you are facing, and what you guys are doing wrong...what you are doing right... Never? Well I guess you guys have now something to do on Saturday?
Ask yourself why you guys are not performing at the standard that the Crew BELIEVES you guys can perform at.
Ask yourself why you guys are not giving your all, when you guys can give 100% ...and then some more.
Ask yourself why you guys are walking around like zombies when you should be bouncing around like radioactive Energizer bunnies on steroids WAITING for your turn to come so you can WOW away your audience...
Most of all, ask yourself what you want Peter Pan to acheive...
CinderElla: Revamped! proved that a bunch of youths can pull together to put up a professional musical...
Maybe Peter Pan can raise that standard? Try to outdo CinderElla? Raise the stakes.
If CinderElla brought in X number of people, then Peter Pan should bring in 5 TIMES X number of people.
If CinderElla could inspire Z number of youths to step out of their boundaries, question the norms of society and Push ahead with nothing but dreams, then Peter Pan should inspire 10 TIMES Z of youths to step forward, DEVASTATE THE NORMS OF SOCIETY AND SET A NEW NORM OF SOCIETY, one in which kids take up dance or theatre or singing as a part of their lives!
A vibrant society FULL OF LIFE, not ROBOTS!
So wake up!
You guys are now the TRUE explorers of the unexplored, the REAL adventurers of adventures. Sing with the breeze and dance with the clouds and whatever else Sameer sprouts in his moment of fame.
Believe you can, cos we do.
PS: A close friend of mine once asked me this...
Him: You are just kids in a small room in a far off CC... What are you guys going to change?
I told him: ... Everything...
Yet to be proven wrong...
Signed, Chopped and Sealed,
Specialist Cadet Trainee Raj, the dude who flies the badass chopper in Battlefield 2 ( Seriously guys...we NEED to play...)
