I had an experience of watching IPAG theater performance when I was still in high school. The title of the performance was Suhi. When I was watching Suhi, At first I didn't understand the story because of many exchanges of conversations and point of views. But when the story progressed, I began to understand the story. My experience in watching Suhi was the same when I was watching the MingMing performance also by IPAG. This story was very hard to understand. Even at the last part of it, I was still not sure of what the story was all about. I just understand that the story was about a muslim family in the Japanese occupation period who had family problems.
I want to explain everything that happened in the performance. At first, when the performance was still not starting, there were two persons who were laughing and shouting and acting at the side of the stage. I realized that they were part of the show since they were dressed all white and had tattoos all over their faces. I assumed that they were representing deities or gods that the people in the story were believing in. I sometimes get frightened because of their reactions. They were just by my side and they have really weird voices and movements. They didn't stop acting until the show started. Now they were the ones who initiated the show. They went to the stage and then I noticed that there was a person, covered in white cloth, lying on the floor. There were also people sitting on the table. I think they were a family. The deities took of the cloth from the person lying on the floor and the person was a young girl. The young girl slowly stood up and the show started.
The family was discussing issues about marriage. The one's discussing were an aged man, a woman, and an aged woman. The young girl was just like a spirit, they didn't notice the girl even though she was already shouting just to let them notice her. The man was telling the woman to marry someone she doesn't want to because he was very ugly. They forced him until she finally gave in. She married the man but they didn't last long because she found out that her husband was sort of gay. Her husband was always with boys, doing sweet things. So she left her husband and went to another place were she met this a guy that she fell in love with. The guy was a professor of a institute. She like the guy because he was good-looking and the guy had naughty hands. After quite a while, the woman got pregnant. When she returned home, the old woman and old man were very angry with. They punished her through their own arms but they didn't abort the child. The child was named Mingming.
All throughout the story the young girl from the start was just following this woman, talking, shouting, doing anything just to make this woman notice her. But that didn't even let the woman even glance at her. It was as though the woman can't see her. So she cried and cried at the corner.
Back at the story of the woman, she left her child with the old man and woman so that she could work at another place. After sometime, the japanese attacked their place and they were forced to evacuate their area. But they were also wanted because the old man had crimes. So they fled to the mountains. But at the mountains, Mingming was captured. When the woman was informed about this, she cried a lot. She didn't know what to do. Then It was shown in the story that Mingming died due to sadness.
Remember the young girl from the start? She was the one acting in this scene. That's when I realized that the young girl from the start was Mingming. That's when I understand the story. After the story was performed, It was still explained by the leading man and the story writer. The story was very hard so understand but when you understand it, you can really say that it had a very interesting story.
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