Lovers, Mad Doctors and Imaginary Friends

Eusoff Dance Production has a bit of a reputation behind it. Amongst the sea of droll and mediocre hall productions, this one is the one you would put your money on. They have a strong alumni supporting it (at least to buy the tickets and returning to oversee the choreography), and a lot of the hall’s resources are usually diverted towards getting the show on the road.

Last year’s Love Is In The Heir was generally cliche-ridden to help the audience relate to the plot. There’s a girl disguised as a boy, an evil wizard who overthrows the King, then he betroths his three ah beng sons to the three princesses, one of whom is feistily tomboyish (symbolic of how women today are so liberated yet still feminine!), and in the end, love saves the day once again. And then there’s the Bollywood-like dance sequences, or else they couldn’t call it “dance production”. Like nearly every other self-written play in NUS, it just couldn’t free itself from cliches.

This year’s Dance Production, “You’ve Got A Friend in Me” does not contain a pun in its title. It’s a story of John, the Eusoffian Valedictorian, graduate first class, environmental scientist extraordinaire, destined saviour of the world, loved by his ever faithful girlfriend, respected by his Eusoffian peers. He suits up for his first ever job interview, and up pops something from his childhood years: an imaginary Goth-rocker named Alexandra. At this point, I started wondering if spandex-wearing Goth-rockers actually existed in the Singaporean psyche 15 years ago but I forgot about it because the dancers were coming on.

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