TIGA by Five Art Centre

TIGA, a performance by Five Art Centre, and also my last study trip with lectures and students of MMC subject. From the description, I knew that TIGA is a platform for the performing arts practitioners who are interested in developing their skills, either in writing, acting, producing or direction. So they would be given a task to write 3 scripts based on 3 objects. For this TIGA series, they were performing based on 3 objects which is Bed, Chair and Knife.

The first performances which is Bed, it is about a young woman argues with the idea of possession in a relationship. From the performance, we can knew that she was interact with his boyfriend but it is not shown in the scene which we have to imagine ourselves and link it together. My perception towards this performance is about how a girl wanted to fight her right from her boyfriend but yet ended up she needs him badly that she willing to give up even she starts up the fight. The moments when she walking around the edges of bed is reflects that their relationship is hanging around the "danger zone". After that, the girl being frustrated and jumping out of the bed is reflecting that she is giving up this relationship, but after awhile she wakes up and fold the bed together with the blanket covering herself shows that she wants this relationship so much that she willing to give up the fight before the man do. The folding is like reflecting she warp up all the things and memories they have been through and started to cuddle his boyfriend again for her apologizes. But the blanket is getting tighter and tighter around her is like showing that even though she surrender to her boyfriend for her mistake yet the relationship made her more stress and suffer.

The second performances is Chair which is about the relationship between a mother and a daughter which the daughter traps in a loop of her mother's lessons on her. The performance shows that the chair is actually reflecting one object the relating her mother taught on it where every time the girl wanted to sit on it, she will fall down from the chair because she can't get through what her mother made her the decision. Her mother wanted her to be polite and to be what her mother wanted her to be. And this decision has made her becomes trapped. Only after when she able to sit on the chair, reflected that she able to get through the rules and thought that her mother gave, when her mother has gone forever.

The third performances is Knife which is about a woman discusses about sexuality by making it more abstract through the process of making a salad. In the performances, she pointed out some issue that most of the ladies nowadays have no any awareness on these issue. They think it is fun to play and try without thinking the consequences. Especially that part when her gloves which represent the condom has broke, she getting freak out like most of the people would do if the condom broke only the people started to realize the consequences after the enjoyable moment.

These performances are different from the Baling that we watched few weeks ago. But these are the common way that we usually watch in a drama performances. It is more straightforward with some abstract within it which give the audiences to think and relate it with our own perception.

Knife

Bed

Chair