Review Drama contest by Chris

Review with English and Mass Communication drama contest
by Chris

There is a big impress for me in the first time English and Mass Communication departments’ drama play contest at 7th May. The contest lets two departments have chances to communicate and find out where the weakness is.

The opening play “Scuba Lessons” was impressed me with the brilliant main actress. Even this play has copy some methods of expression from the famous TV drama “Sex in the city”, but the pronunciations and natural presence with the main actress was excellent. This opening play gives me some reflections. Those English department students are only the freshmen; they just take one year education in college with English training. But the ability with talking and listening English are already an obvious distance in each department.

“Butterfly Love” is my favorite one in this whole contest. They use the stage very well. The actors are also having excellent performance. Maybe the foreign professors have never heard about the original story of “Liang-Zhu”, so they can’t have the same response like us.

There is a big winner in English department, the “Alfie”. Before watch this play, there are two movies talking about “Alfie” I had watched. One is Wang Kar-wai’s “Days of Being Wild”; another is “Alfie” act by Jude Law. So I can predict what’s they want to presence. The main actor has an excellent performance, and they also represent the “playboy temperament” very successful. I believe they effected with the movie “Alfie” very much. Alfie is a playboy, he mix with those beauties around. But now he has a big problem with one of his girl friends. She is a lesbian and she want to separate with Alfie because she got a younger, nice body girlfriend. This story set up is very like the movie. But maybe they are inspired with the movie “Alfie”, but the main actor plays very good and gave the play a new spirit.

Another big winner “Who is watching Fu Man-chu” is also give me a new thought with the story of late Ching Dynasty. “Who is watching Fu Man-Chu” has a very good structure with story background. But I think maybe they can do much work with the mental side with Fu Man-Chu. Why he want to revenge? What’s the turning point with his decide? If they can spend much time to explain this part, it will make the whole play better.

The problems with “Who is watching Fu Man-chu” are also the same problems in our department’s groups. Because the pool English ability, we can’t put too much attentions on the story. Even we already done so much on our advantages part and done very well. But in the point of view with the students of English department, it maybe just a contest with another field. Each department just play their own drama mode and for each own purpose. Those will not a good result.