Raçomonac (ra-sho-mo-natz)

Oh man, Dramafeste is over and it has been an amazing experience working with you Eddie...you have this strange magic of making everything look so natural and smooth...love it! You should have acted in Dramafeste last year -.-' Haha...anyway it was an experience I never regret, even though we had to stay back late on many nights. I believe our winning formula was how each department was led by very dedicated production crews, and how everything just came together so nicely without us having to worry and tear out hair out, and yes having many directors allowed us to be open to many ideas. (Though cliche, the experience has really shown me the strength of unity and cooperativity...none of us could have done it all alone...) I remember fondly when we first started out, struggling with the plot of the play and rushing out the lines while auditioning (1 day 1 scene haha...do you still remember the 'narrative scaffold' and the meeting at Serene Centre macdonalds where the idea of the play was born?) but you, together with Alice, Sheryl, Chin Yuen, Yuqin, Kenneth, Zhou Hao, Xiangyu, Rachel, Jiaqi, Dawei and our dear actors and actresses (Erik and Yee Chien yeah!!!! 70 POWER!! and not forgetting Ronald! and all the crew and chorale, + wenqiang and people like xun who helped out a bit here and there) WE MADE OUR DREAM COME TRUE! It was unbelievable!

P.S. I just thought about it and realised that we've actually exceeded our initial expectations and goals. We wanted to beat Apollo at first, but since Mr Perry said that ours is the best play he has seen in 7 years of Dramafeste running, it means that we've also beat the Apollo play last year, and the year before, and ....

Haha, now how's that for braggin'

Ares rules!~

For a very professionally written review of Dramafeste ’06 plays, please read: http://kentan.blogspot.com/

For those unfamiliar with Rashomon (1950) the black and white film that inspired our play: read this


Erik, Best Supporting Actor


Best Directors


Alice and her beloved chorale


Sweet victory!!


Everyone cheering when we won Best Play


Oh yeah!


Directors and main cast


Standard Ares tattoo on face


Ares Dramafeste Production Committee '06


To Yee Chien: The only regret I have for Dramafeste was that you didn't get the Best (supporting or not) Actress award...In my heart (and many others too) you are truly deserving of it, and we really think you should have won it. Your own expectations for yourself made it so easy to work with you, because we did not have to worry about your performance at all - it was consistent and spectacular throughout. I am so very glad with myself that I insisted on having you as Lolita, when we were casting. You brought her to life, exactly as we had meant her to be in the script. WELL DONE!!!

Picture credits: Tongyuan (thanks!! ^^)