Child's Play

Read on if you want a upmost unique perception of something extremely ordinary.
This is 'Act 20', a children's production.

Children's productions usually have hidden moral values within them.... And since they are watched by kids, they cannot be too hard to understand.

Thus it compromises the depth of the play.

But Act 20 is a multi-layered show filled with sexual undertones and homoerotic tensions....

Just think about it......

Why are guys playing with balls in the opening act?

And then girls join in after awhile with bigger balls.......

Why there's a guy banging doors which are supposedly male?

And the doors are homoerotically coloured red?

Why do 2 parents not bring their daughter along on an outing to Mount Faber? It hints of strange and awkward inconvenience.....

Is it because they wanted to do something immoral up on the hill.....

We see a king running the country in his tumultous court but where is his queen? Or even concubines?

What happens when the king needs to release his carnal fustrations?

When the Prime Minister beside him offers help, does it suggest more than simply straightening a crooked back?

A village only has six dogs and about fifteen chickens...... Perhaps it is an indication of a thriving trade deep down in the dirty and dark underbelly of the village heartland?

Does a male cat catch a male rat only because its his nature? What exactly is his nature?

And then we have a whole gang of boys and girls riding wooden horses vibrantly..... And they proclaim that a dirty alley is their heaven.

What dark secrets are they trying to hide?

Would they be reaching out for help by singing about it loudly?

Children productions always don't mean much to me..... They are always as complex as a plain sheet of photocopying paper....

But 'Act 20' wins me over with its very subtle and colourful expression of its ultimately dark and forbidden thematics...

I mean, who can really achieve such a quietly powerful standard?

Haha