URMI

It has been a long break since I last saw a theatre production and last saturday, I went for a play called URMI. It was based on the Tempest by William Shakespear and was adapted to suit the Balinese setting. The show cost me a wholesome of RM 40 and it was not as good as it supposed to be although it has a lot of sponsors and was held at Istana Budaya. For once, the show was a bit lame in terms of the storyline. Not that Shakespear can write a good storyline to begin with but topping with the icing of bad and confusing choreoraphy, it made things worse. Out of no where, you can have a gal walking on the centre stage and perform belly dancing which was like, what the heck was she doing that for. There was no co-relation between the girl and the show. But then, it doesn't mean that the girl can't dance. Her shaking was superb.

Oh, not only that. There were these 3 Indian men who one played with 2 thin strips of metal and the other two blowing fire which supposed to represent what the Balinese do, was absurb. The came out of the stage, perform less and than 1 minutes and you have the protagonist yelling to them to stop the performance because it ruined the show for the newly wed. I was like, huh? Confused by it. If you intend to use it for less than a minute, then why put it there in the first place. It doesn't serve a purpose.

Haih! The only thing that I could talk nicely about the show was the nice backdrop. That one, with the amount of sponsorship they are getting, should be good. At least that worth my RM 40 ringgit. It's not really a show to watch. Better go and watch Fantastic Four.