Great experience in 2 Houses

Oh Hi! I'm back!
I'd been stayed in island previous week because I was joining the super awesome George Town Festival 2014
I'd involove in this theatre - 2 Houses, which come under sin-pen colony
*sin-pen colony is basically a pop-up festival-within-a-festival celebrating the shared heritage of Singapore and Penang.

2 Houses is a festival-commissioned, site-specific drama, performed by a cast of some of Malaysia and Singapore’s finest actors.

I was there as the Front of House (abbreviated FOH)
House is where the audience is. Our jobscope is simply making sure every guest make the registration, read the house rules and get all they needed before the show start.

This is the very first time i come across this term - FOH
honestly I get  so much worried before I met those awesome people in the production
and watch the drama which actually cost RM150 for every aundience to watch this.

2 houses - georgetwon 1941

When every guest is enjoying the prepared wine and refreshment, the show simply start without informed. The drama start with a pretty young lady on a vintage car enter the mansion and an elegant lady in red croons a haunting song telling a tale about two men who came from china and then became brother.
This is how the relatioship of these two family ties.
But then, the relationship diminished over time as one of the family grew rich by getting support and helping the British Colonial.

The 2 Houses set against the backdrop of the Second World War and Emergency years, the drama follows the loves, lives and losses of those that witnessed the birth of Penang’s identity.

Director:         Lim Yu-Beng
Writer:            Lim Yu-Beng
Producers:      Tan Kheng Hua, Joe Sidek and Pamela Ong

The audience is then invited to enter the Soonstead mansion, known as Heah Gate Mansion in the play.

They follow the character from room to room to witness the happening of the story. 

On 1941, when Japanese came and Penang is falling. British get their own people the boarding pass to run away. And so do the rich people is trying to get a place to send away their family and to protect their assets.

But he is so helpless when he has such a coward son who is not willing to go, then there is the time he needs help from the family he had been looking down on.

 The Act2 start again with the story telling by fanny. Then start the Emergency year.

Finally the japanese left and British is back. The little poor guy return with the status of lawyer of the Malayan Union.

The drama is a mixture of suspense, romance, relationship and family.
Being a site-specific production, it is so much different with conventional theatre.
It happen in an actual mansion, audience follow the charatcter with such a near distance, you feel yourselves involved in the story, hearing sound of wave when the singer singing the tale make you feel so much.

This is such an awesome opportunity to get to watch this show and get involve in the production, knowing so  many awesome people from singapore and other states.
I remember we were some sort of having a little culture shock there
But soon, we blend in very well  after a few days.
There are lots of serious-looking but lovely people.