Drama for Malaysian Studies

This morning, my group has to present Historical Role Play before independence of Malaysia. My group and I took role in Portuguese colonisation era.

For this presentation or known as role play, we had preparation around a month. The preparation were:

• Casting- Choosing the main character and sub one
• Wardrobe
• Background music
• Story line and script
• etc.

However, the outcome was not really good.

• Firstly, there was last minute setting on background (slide to be projected on the screen)


• Lack of cooperation among the actor and actress ( this was mainly due to some didn't memorize the dialog well and some were absent during rehearsal)


• The outfit was not attractive enough


• Background music was too soft (we forgot to prepare speaker) and the music was released in the wrong time

My role was just casting a Portuguese soldier. Haha, today, I missed some lines and the scenario was a bit "kelam-kabut" when the acting go not what we rehearsal. I had even laugh and act stupidly in front of the audience. Also, there were some moments where I turn blank and stood there doing nothing.... Haha....

The drama was a bit messy in fact, it can label as a disaster. Back at the stage, we didn't know when actually is our turn to act. Poor Ck, chasing everyone to go on stage.

Here, I'm not blaming my teammates effort. But is just what I learned from the mistake we made.(Note: My contribution was seemingly less, so, I was a bit guilty too with how much work I have given to the entire presentation.)

My insight:

Being a leader which was taken by Kong in coordinating the whole drama preparation is a tough job as I have observed in this whole activity. (Imagine, how leader of the world can rule a country like Obama and Hu Jin Tao that rule his country... I really salute them who can take such heavy responsibility well such as able to make people willingly to work efficiently...) This time, the participants involve in acting were way a lot then other group I have work before. Issue like arranging time to meet together; sending message to those were absent to make sure they know what happened; getting people to work (but usually was not what you expected) etc.

Working with people especially a lot of them in an activity was not easy as I think.

Guess what?

I will need to work on more leadership skill and communication skill.

Today, was a good encounter that opened my eyes to gain more self-improvement.