DIALOGUE

I was doing this assignment with my non-biological twin, Hidayah. We were discussing about what kind of conflict that we were going to bring about. So we agreed that we need to think of it individually and discussed the idea later.

At first, I was thinking to have conflict between lawyer and the client because it was kind of different and I sturdily believe that there will be a lot people doing on couples. So, we were discussing on that particular idea and Hidayah seemed not really interested with my idea and all of sudden, out of nowhere, TING! This thought abruptly came to my mind and I said to Hidayah, “What if we create a conflict between a popular singer with a fan?” she was screaming and agreed with the idea. We then excitedly brainstormed the ideas and it did sound nice.

Eventhough we were drowning with ideas of what to do, it happens that we took this for granted and actually finish writing the script on the day of the performance itself, precisely an hour before the performance. It was quite chaotic and the practices were quite a mess since both of us forgot our lines. We were rehearsing in the bus on the way to the class. During others performing, we were practicing at the back.

The script of our dialogue was quite dramatic but when it came to the actions and uttering the dialogue, the others went on laughing out and loud. But, we just go on with the flow, and hopefully that it was a good indication that ours wouldn’t bring boredom to them. During the performance, there were a lot of undeliberate improvisations done since we forgot our lines.

My biggest mistake was that I can stop smiling and giggling to see Hidayah aka Miss Dayah Friday annoyingly did such vain and shallow attitude. Indeed, I can’t concentrate to the sadness that I was supposed to portray during the performance.

Once the performance was done, I sighed with a relief. Pn. Ju said that I was lacking of the facial expressions, and she was intensely hoping that we can explore more on the different emotions since both of us were merely discover the surface level of characters and Pn. Ju did tell us that she wish to see something that will challenge us in terms of the serious characterization since the characters of this performance were not challenging enough. Well, the most significant effect of this performance; starting from that day, Hidayah was no longer known as Dayah Jumat, but Dayah Friday. J