Sir Rey later introduced us the two parties involving the performer, and the audience. Sir Rey took a ball and placed it in the center of the room/stage. Obviously the ball isn't doing anything. But I came to know that even so, that IS a performance. Because it is doing 'nothing'. I learnt that anything or anybody can do a performance, as long as the prerequisites of the questions that the audience have in their head are answered, such as 'why is he standing there?', 'what will he do next?', 'how does he do that?'.
Many more self-discovery activities were played on. One of the most in-depth activity was about discovering our most comfortable zone, and our most uncomfortable zone. My most comfortable zone was in a dark corner, whereas my uncomfortable zone was, as long as it wasn't dark. Sir Rey told us that every different individual's comfort zone vary according to their childhood. I throw in my full support to that.
We joined hands later, forming a circle, and I was the troublemaker. Leading the entire team into an impossible twist, and back out again. Sir Rey explained how a leader leads the team into trouble, the whole team will follow the leader. Vice versa, a member of the team can lead a team out of trouble. In theatre, this is bound to happen.
Finally there was the 'epic finale'. In the blind of night, (darkness of the room), we were instructed to close our eyes, students were situated all around the room, and we had to find our circle again. Blindly, I followed my instinct and groped around to join back the hands to recreate the circle. Honestly I wasn't sure what was that for, but I sense a serious deep meaning to it.
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