I did quite a
few performance in my secondary school but this is my very first time I did a
role play in English. At that time, I am a new student. I am still finding time
to get to know my classmates especially my teammates. So when Miss Dini
informed to us that we need to find a tittle, a character for each member also
what our story line is, I am excited but anxious at the same time. We have tons
of ideas running through our mind from a role play about family, to comedy, to
horror, and even musical. We were planning to do “Beauty and The Beast” at
first but then we remembered that our lecture asked us to avoid love stories so
we decided to choose a classic drama which is “The Hamlet”. On the discussion
day, Miss Dini, our lecture, gives out her opinions that our play is too heavy.
We were totally blanked and have no other idea on what our role play is going
to be about. Our lecture helped us saying that we should do a parody. So for
the final time, we decided to do a parody based on TV-drama “Oh My English”. We
started out with our script and it turns out we did not even take one scene
from “Oh My English” TV-drama. It was all our own idea and script.
Between the role-play, we also have other subjects work to get done with such as quizzes,
presentations, and also the reports on every presentation for every subjects.
We were stressed out and barely get enough sleep. This is when time management
plays a vital role. We totally forgot about our role play and practice as we
were too busy and focus on other subjects. Without we even realize, there’s
only 3 days left until the role play performance! We were doomed. We got the
script done and straight away starts our practice. Najwa, the new additional
member that joined our group adds another interesting character in our play. So
we have 4 scenes altogether, first scene is “In The Classroom” when we were all
first introducing ourselves since it is like the first day of class, second
scene is “Talentime Audition”, third scene is the “Road Trip” including
“Camping Trip” and lastly is the “Final Performance”. So we have me, Adilah as
Dylae, a rich and spoiled girl who loves to sing, Najwa as Teacher Wawa who
teaches account for 5 Gembira, Haziqah as Aeqa, a nerd girl who loves poetry, Syafiqah
as Syae, a best friend to Dylae who loves to play guitar, Hizal as Hizaly, a
soft girly-like boy or the auw boy who
loves to model and Afzan as Afzany, a macho boy who loves to do magic.
We finally did
all the props the day before the role play but we obviously were not prepared
since we only practice together twice. On the day of the role play performance,
luckily our group has to perform on 4pm so we got time to practice and improve
our acting. Suddenly, we forgot that we haven’t buy the props for Afzan and
Hizal’s character plus we forgot to transfer our sound effect to the laptop!
That’s when things get chaos all of the sudden. Everyone were so nervous so
when an incident like that happen we all get super emotional and flustered. We
rushed out to buy all the props needed. So on our way to buy Afzan and Hizal’s
props, in the car, we actually did last minute practice while Syafiqah
transferred the sound effect in the laptop. Haziqah was driving like crazy since
we had to be back at the hall before 4pm. It was madness! We managed to buy all
the props needed and arrived at the hall 4pm sharp. It was still consider late
because we actually have to be prepared and ready on the stage by 4pm. We
actually wore 3 layers of cloths that we have to change every scene. As we want
to make sure that our role play is not more than 30 minutes, we wore that 3
layers at one time. But just before we start our play, we were facing with
technical difficulties in terms of the sound effect. Already late, nervous and
shaking, we don’t have time to worry about it and start our play. We may look
okay but at the backstage, only god knows how chaotic it is!
We give our all
during the play. I used every voice in my body possible to make sure it is loud
since our hall is very open so it is quite hard for our lecture to hear. We for
some reason memorized every line, we did not bring any script along, and just
perform. I think we did great! Even with our last minute practice, we managed
to perform well, I can hear the others laughed and enjoyed our play. I hope our
lecture enjoyed it as well. Despite all of the circumstances, we actually did
it. Ahh… good times. A memory that I will treasure for the rest of my life.
From this role play, I learnt to always make an early preparation, don’t do
last minute work. I learnt to manage my time between role play and other
subjects’ work, to be tolerate and work together as a team and also to be
punctual. I think the role play definitely helps to boost up my confident level
to perform in front of people, and improve my English as well. Overall, I had a
great time in doing the role play and if I can do it again, I would.
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