Review of Theater JALAN MATI

              This is the senior’s final year project (FYP) and it called “Jalan Mati” .The director was MAZLAN MAT RAZi . I watched this show on first day which was 10 April 2015. It was a rainy day. The show was held in Panggung Sasaran. The place was okay but I think they were lack of people to be F.O.H. This is because they applied mycsd for the show, but when i went to the counter to write my name on the mycsd form , there was no one to take care of the counter .So, it means that anybody can just come and write the name to get mycsd and just walk away. And this may make some students come for just mycsd but not the show. Also , the instruction from F.O.H was not clear .For example ,it was raining but they did not tell the audiences where to put their umbrella and their shoes. The time of the show started was not punctual.

                  The actor Ed Kota who acted as doctor Lokman was quite good in acting because he was able to make the audiences laugh and concentrate while the mood of the theater was down while for another actor Tiow 'Ajis' Lampoyan Isaac who acted as Azam , his acting was not as good as Ed Kota but he showed his characteristic as audiences know that he was a person who was young , innocent and nervous .And he was good because he needed to stay the cold as he woke up from a bathtub which full of water. For the actor Myra who acted as the dead body .She was not easy because she needed to lie there for hours and the stage was cold. But she was professional because she did not even move any part of her body. And at the end of the scene , her face expression was very nice and people can feel her revenge , her angry and her sadness.

            The lighting was nice because when the actor monolog ,the light will concentrated on the actor only , so that the audiences will just concentrate on him and heard what he said. The timing of the lighting was very important when Dr Lokman switch off and on the light. And the light will change while the mood of the theatre changed and it was nice .  The audio was less because this type of theatre does not suit to have a lot of music but the last sound track was nice because it increased nervous mood .

                Also,the set was okay because audiences can know that it was at a toilet with darkness and dirty. But, I think they can improve more in the set to make it more scarier or more dirtier. The story of this show was not suppose to be funny but that is a lot of scene that make the audiences laugh and the actor Ed Kota tried to be funny .I don’t know why he did that at first because this theater not suppose to be funny. But then I feel maybe the actor Tiow was not as experience as Ed Kota and that time the whole mood of the show was down ,so he tried to push up the energy of the show .

             As a conclusion , at the beginning of the show was okay , but in the middle of the show I feel quite bored because they just kept talking. The best part was when Dr Lokman cut off his leg .That time I was sitting right in front of the show and I could feel the blood spray to the audiences . And I could see his blood spray out of his leg ,it looked very real and you could feel the pain. I love this part the most. When he turned to the audiences again ,his leg was gone and this gave surprise to the audiences .For Azam who was fall into the bathtub was nice and made the show more real to believe that he was dead.  Overall , I think the show was successful but it is still can improve more in some certain parts.