Assalamu'alaikum wbt,
2CT Festival is a project for the subject of UHAS2122-22 Creative and Critical Thinking that we compulsory to take part. As everyone needs to take part in any activity, I chose to be in theater team.
I chose to be in theater team because I love to be in someone character. Sometimes, I want to act as another person to release my stress. And when there is an activity for theater, I do not take too long to join the theater team. Although my acting is not so good, but I need to challenge myself. My confidence level is always low and I want to challenge myself to act in front of many people to gain my confidence. I played the role as "Adik", a grandchild to Mansor Adabi. As my height is the lowest than others, I think that role is very suitable for me. Before we get our role, we need to do an audition for what role that we choose. From the earlier, I chose that role and I got it.
Before the festival, we sit in meeting to choose what is the title for us to do theater. We decided "Rusuhan Natrah" and I need to watch about "Natrah" This is a kind of history which is a real situation related to the religion of Islam. Before this, I did not ever hear about her. As we need to act this story, I make a research about her and know a little bit about this history. This history called as "Rusuhan Natrah" because it is related to religion. At that time, Tanah Melayu people gathered and protested when Natrah need to follow her biological parents go back to Belanda, whereas Natrah is a Muslim and her biological parents were not. They protested because of they want to save Natrah's religion as a Muslim. This project gives me a chance to know one of history that ever happened in Tanah Melayu a long time ago.
I learned a lot throughout this festival. I learned to manage my time as I always need to attend the meetings. I also learned to be a responsible person when I attend every meeting, remembering my script and cooperate as a team. Moreover, I learned to think creatively and critically how to make my role interesting. I manage to control my shyness to act like a childish in front of others. Although it is quite challenging, but I enjoyed every moment in this project.