Last week I invited actor Lim Yu Beng to come and help us work on the complex and potentially dangerous brawling scene at the end of Act3. Yu Beng was in the 1991 Theatreworks cast of Mad Forest - he played Radu (and his presence at rehearsals stressed Terence the current Radu considerably...) Its been 16 years and Yu Beng's memories of that show were hazy at first, but as we got into the scene, bits and pieces came back to him, and he recalled especially how explosively violent the brawl was back then.
The aim I had was to create a brawl that balanced the sudden explosion of long-harboured enmity with the ongoing development of character relationships - it needed to kick ass while at the same time continuing to unravel the individual character journeys.
By the end of the session, we'd developed a whole new brawl - very different from the one Yu Beng remembers, and very unusual in its dramatic precision.
It'll take your breath away! Come and see!
The aim I had was to create a brawl that balanced the sudden explosion of long-harboured enmity with the ongoing development of character relationships - it needed to kick ass while at the same time continuing to unravel the individual character journeys.
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