The reason why I decided to post this here is because I still can't get it out of my mind even though I watched it 2 nights ago. (That's a really long time by my standards.)

On Tuesday night, I watched The Dresser by the Singapore Repertory Theatre at DBS Arts Centre. It stars Adrian Pang and Michael Corbidge.

I'm a little lazy to type, and besides I don't want to spoil it, so I'll just copy and paste from the SRT's website which can be found here.

Oscar-winning playwright and screenwriter, Ronald Harwood's (The Pianist starring Adrien Brody) perceptive, endearing and frequently hilarious portrait of backstage life is being brought to stage in one of the most acclaimed dramas of modern theatre - The Dresser, which was nominated in 1984 for 5 Academy Awards and 5 Golden Globes.

Set in a war torn provincial theatre, an ageing actor manager, known to the loyal acting company as Sir, is struggling to keep a grip on his sanity and complete his two hundred and twenty seventh performance of King Lear.

Ensuring that each show goes on without fail is Norman, Sir's devoted dresser, who for sixteen years has been there to fix his wig, massage his ego, remind him of his opening lines and provide the sound effects to the storm scenes.

And basically, it was so damned good that it's still stuck in my head. I will venture to say that it was better than some of the crap that I saw in UK.

I'd go again if I could get the ticket at the fantastic price I got it at the first time. But I don't think the school will subsidise the same thing for the same person twice?

Oh, there's this review of sorts regarding this here.

And after the show the actors talked to us a bit. It was quite cool.

So I'm giving them free advertisment and telling all of you that you really should go watch it before its run is over. It ends on 22 July 2006.