Titled: Hydro-Sapiens, Part of the Water Wonder Series
Performance By: The Lunatics (The Netherlands)
Date/Time: 22nd June 2008, 8pm, World Premiere
Venue: Bedok Resevior
from www.singaporeartfest.com
For every question, there is an answer…
What is the power of water? How weak can it make you?
Should we fear it, love it, hate it?
A human being is made up 80 percent out of water, so why do we need more?
Why do tears taste salty? And why doesn’t sweat taste sweet?
Is Jaws still alive? And in how many ways a man can drown?
For all these questions, The Lunatics will try to find the answers -
through a very intensive, hilarious, spectacular and even brutal search
for the right value of water....
The award-winning Lunatics have been performing
ingenious theatre in all kinds of places throughout the world -
from marshlands to jungles, from bustling cities to barren deserts.
With their brand of powerful poetic imagery often playing on the
elements of air, fire, water, and earth, they now come to
wreak havoc at our Bedok Reservoir with the world premiere of their
latest water-fantasy Hydro Sapiens.
Expect a splashing new spectacle!
Supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Story is set in prolly the 17th century in the west..
Boss was in love with this girl, and it was mutual.
They were this group of sea-man.
and 1 day, Boss have to leave to kill this gigantic Creature..
they took the creature for experimentation, research and came out
with a product that is useful for the people..
Overnight, the Leader(Boss) became rich..
He quickly told the servant to go ask for the girl's hand..
They got married.. at this time, 1 of his seaman got jealous and staged
a stabback by faking out another gigantic Creature..
and Boss was burnt/drown to death by the seaman
as the seaman sabotaged the boat.
That seaman could not get the wife, and money..
Furiously, He set on a fire and destroyed everything Boss had..
The wife drowned.. and she met boss in the other world..
After searching very hard for each other..
and finally they were together..
while the world mourns their death in tears.
The Research and Experiment
This *robot* is just to depict the emotions of the people..
It wasn't right to have any robot please..
on bottom left, the white object is actually flowers..
3 big flowers for him, at the place where he passed on..
look carefully, the couple are on top of the globe.
they were climbing the globe from 2 ends..
slipping and alomst getting injured for each climb they took.
showing that they search very hard for each other..
The fireworks fired slowly, 1 by 1..
marking the happy, yet the sad ending of the show..
happy being the couple got together yet is in the other world..
with the living, mourning in tears.
Pictures by: Me
Sypnosis by: Me
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I thought the whole show was in a good timing..
altho i felt that, they could have better use of more light elements..
like.. during the mourn put in purple lights or anything..
because in the darker side of the story, the lights are merely dimmed spotlights.
The twist was abit unexpected, but i thot it was a good twist..
the fire on water was rather amazing at The Betrayal
The Globe depicting the other world was really welldone, and i
felt the sorrow, yet the joy..
Giant equipments, sound, and the surprising visual aids were in gd use,
and i thot it did well in bringing out some
comedy factor in some parts of the show,
doing away those less exciting part of the show.
The end of the show was a beauty..
yet marked with such tinge of sorrow lingering in the air..
