There was once when I remember when Dr. Edwin asked us to watch The Reduce Shakespeare Company was so intresting. Even though I didn’t really understand what are the theatre is all about, I just interpret it using my own perspective. For me, the theatre is all about how a play can be change into various performing action. And it’s so magnificient when the theater that for me much of the ancient Greek theater is so serious can be so fun when people in the theater turn it into a hilarious way of performing the theater. But, it does not effect the main event of the theater. The new version of the Shakspeare play has truly give a new impact for both, teachers and students to learn and to review it from new way of learning it as a fun and intresting play. The perspective of the old Shakespeare plays that it is boring and dull, is not anymore the main reason for us to take advantage for not studying literature. As for this new and light Shakespeare plays has turn to, have been more easier to be adapt by young learners such as form one students. It is not that these young leaners doesn’t want to study litareture, but because of the hard and heavy performance through the literature has made them feel bored to study literature. So, it is an intresting things for The Reduce of Shakespeare Company to explore a new way and gives ideas to us in learning literature. Thanks to them...

Tiresias

Tiresias, has often appears in Greek theater. Who is he in our perception?
Reading about Tiresias is intresting as he is the aged blind prophet whose appearance turns the plot in all Greek tragedies set in Thebes. He tells the truth about the past, present and future but however, the characters who need to pay attention are too distracted to listen. Too late when Oedipus and Creon realize that his words were accurate and reliable.
However I found that it fascinates me when there are two conflicting stories where both recorded by Apollodorus whom telling us why Tiresias became blind, and how he became the religious consultant to the rulers of Thebes at least for seven generations. In the first story, out in the countryside with his mother, young Tiresias saw Athena bathing nude in a pool. His reactions are not recorded, but his punishment was swift and severe where, he was struck blind, to ensure he would never again see what man was not intended to see. But having lost his eyesight, he was given a special gift, where he is be able to understand the language of the birds and thus it help him to predict the future
In the other version, near Mount Kyllene in the Peloponnese, Tiresias came upon a pair of snakes lustfully intertwined. He hit the copulating couple a smart blow with his stick, presumably striking a blow for animal decency. But Hera was not pleased, as the sensuous seductress of Zeus, she heartily approved of sex, even for the lower creatures. His punishment was cruel, and the worst a man could imagine. He was transformed into a woman, in mind as well as the body. But later after seeing the copulating snakes again, but this time alllowing them their pleasure; he was released from his sentence, and permitted to resume his masculinity. All could then have been well, but Tiresias was drawn into an argument between Hera and her husband Zeus. It is a common area for marital discussion wherethe question is "who has more pleasure in sex - the man or the woman?" Hera was clever enough to let Zeus believe that men were superior in this as in everything else. But it was then they decided to check with Tiresias for only he had known what it was actually like in the two roles. He revealed woman's greatest secret on a scale of ten, she gets nine parts of the pleasure to his one. Hera was furious, and instantly struck him blind where, Zeus couldn't do anything to stop her istead he did give Tiresias the gift of second sight.
Thus, I believe that in Greek theatre, Tiresias plays an important role as he is the God voice to remind we as the mortal to hear and being more sensitive towards our life.

On 8th Febuary, I have attend a malay theater which I thought would be simple. This Puteri Gunung Ledang musical theater, is the first formal theater that I attend, well so much in my life I went to theater where it is informal. I was shocked for the first time I when in the theater. It does really shows how it is really intresting. The props and the theater itself was not so different from English theater. From what I have learned, theater has chorus, soliloquoy, disguise, farce, spectacles and many more. And this theater also has the same component of what we called English or Greek theater. The ticket above is to prove that I have attend the musical theater. For the first time in my life, I had fall in love with the theater. In my heart, I dream of attending more theater in the future. However, there is a part that give me the feel of insulting when there are some people does not know how to behave properly in trhe theater and respect for the theater when it is begin. Hopefully, this people will learn the attitude of being in the theatre in the future.