Afiqah's Thoughts on Directing Hungry

When i first read the text, Hungry, i definitely saw a lot of potential for it. it would give us a lot of material to work with because the themes were accessible and close to our hearts.

the play itself is surreal, i mean who can imagine ghosts actually roaming about, with practically nothing to do? But this in itself is something that we can use to enhance the performance- and by this i mean to play up the surreal factor of the set, yet keeping it simple at the same time. this justaposes with the realistic acting style of the actors will make for a unique and enlightem=ning piece.

Set- i see POOP as our inspiration for out set. it does not have to be realistic, however, to just have the elements of the parts of the scene and representing it. after the talk with Tze Chien, i feel that this is the way that we should consider our settings. Another thing that caught mu attention was when Tze Chien talked about having audiences in the acting space itself, to really be involved in the drama while at the same time know that it is not real, to create a different sense of acting compared to today's realism. I was thinking that we have 4 toilet bowls(like the original set) but place them in the north south eat west formation? what do you guys think?
just a though tho.

Acting- the characters in Hungry are not shallow, they have many layers and for this, i think that realism acting following Stanislavski's would be the best. even though the characters are not alive, they have experienced life to which they now look back on and their actions should reflect that.

MISC- ok, we have talked a lot about puppets, be it like poop style or shadow puppetry, i thibnk that the use of puppets would add to the feeling of surrealism on the play. it has also quite a nice effect, such as the one that we saw in POOP. however, we have to note that in POOP, the use of Puppets is limited and that is what made it work, its subtleness. therefore, i think that we can try to follow this, but ommph it up a bit to make our surreal set more - well- surreal.

i also thought about using puppets for the flashback scenes, since essentially, the characters are dead, it would make more sense then, yes?

as for other inspirations, i have yet to find them. i will definitely post them up when the inspirations strikes.

-afiqah