Met up with Jai yesterday and had lunch with Lawyn and Mae at Kenny Rogers near school. Aw, it's been ages since I last saw that girl. We sat in the booth for hours, even though Lawyn and Mae had already left for class and stuff. I love sitting around, just talking in one place with a good friend. Jai, we really have to get together often!

Saw Dulaang Filipino's Macbeth with Nikki, Mish, Nicco, Drei, and Junjun last night. Well, it wasn't as bad as Arman had said it was. But of course, there were a lot of stuff I just had to notice...

The translation of the play to Taglish butchered the entire beautuful English that Shakespeare had created. And because of the director's translating effort to keep the dialogue modern, there was too much profanity and slang. And about the slang, it was mostly gay lingo. I mean, not all people talk like that. Maybe sa DF, oo. Jeez. Plus I heard some wrong grammar, rawr.

My head ached because of how everyone spoke. They all spoke too fast, and it didn't help when the Witches did so with microphones during their famous "Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble..." because they were shouting it into the mics. Holy kamote. What's up with all that acting? Is everyone high on weed or something? They all reminded me of that retarded guy from Anchorman.

Plus the guy who played the title role of Macbeth sort of has an "R-defect", as Benj used to call it. He should've done an English play instead. And he kept talking in this monotone. What in the world? I think he got the role because of face value.

The actors have this tendency of losing their energy and worse, their character, when they're not active onstage.

Then the stage design. OK, it was a huge risk turning the theater around to make a thrust, and tranferring the audience area to the actual stage. But because of it's "experimental" design (that's the nicest word I can think of, no offense to the designer), the actors keep turning their backs to the audience too often, even when they're upstage.

And what in the world is the stage manager doing? I know Dang is a really dedicated SM, but I keep seeing her sitting next to Mish, texting people. Do you really know where you should be?

OK, that's enough.

But Charm was a standout, no bias there. It's great to see her doing something else aside from the swaying and stuff. She was hilarious as Lady MacDuff. Pose and smile here and there, hahaha. Even when she was already being killed by the Murderers, they all still had to smile and pose for the guy with the camera.

Well, the Murderers were funny in their own way too. Especially Ayem, and that girl in the preppie outfit, hahahaha!

Anyway, enough about that.

I heard that in the general assembly for the prod and tech students had last Wednesday, the topic of forming new theater company was covered. But Miss Cindy gave such a corny name. "Green Stage"? What the heck is that? It's like you're copying off Blue Repertory, specially since this new company will most likely be the underdog theater company in the school as well.