Saturday, April 26, 2008 . 3:09 AM

I know this isn't the original poster, but I can't find it, so anyway now for my review of Raffles Institution's Army Daze...

Army Daze, for those who don't know, tells the story of a group of boys who grew into men after NS, and this story covers the little incidents they faced that made their NS life interesting and fruitful.

For RI' production, I was surprised they used the PlayDen, cos' its very in front of the audience, and the stage is small, rather than large stage. Somehow I think that helped them, but it also hurt them in other ways.

Because it is so small, it would be very obvious if you were to make a tiny mistake (i.e. actors trying to resist laughing, moving of props etc.), so they should have been more careful.

The storyline was pretty okayishly adapated, i love the punchlines, but a couple of them were unappreciated because it is in the wrong era (e.g. 'asking us (NS men) to have a third child' refers to the baby boom back then, but nobody yesterday got the joke).

Actors wise was pretty good, though I was surprised Elias' chracter 'Ah Beng' wasn't very elaborated on. Zaki pretty much wowed the audience with his feminine poses and behavior! Really damn ah gua!!!! Proded! The Indian couple was classic also, though Valerie K's entrances in and out of stage was sometimes a bit untimely.

For the technicalities, the soundtrack between scenes is obviously looped (as in you can hear the looped effect), and slightly into the second half of the act the mic wasnt turn off and you could hear the commentator talking! Still, it wasn't that bad.

Zach's hair was okay, but Matthew and Gregory was WEIRD lol. And Matthew act macho damn farni lol.

Greg gave me a clue about appearing him in a scene about insecticide, and i was like wtf. In the end I understood =D 2 Flowers for you on Monday! (or tuesday, see how lol)

Overall: 3.5/5 (with biasness involved lar)
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I think Jun Sean will blog about his little black book of comments he wrote during the concert lol, go read it when it's up.

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