A Letter to the IB Year 1's

To the cast and production crew of Water by the Spoonful:

Get out the champagne and celebrate, because that first showing was a success. Take it from someone who has watched every IB play for the past four years - this was my personal favorite. (Also, don't actually bring out the champagne; bring out the metaphorical champagne or the SFS Play champagne which is usually empty glasses)

First of all, for having three days in the Black Box to set up and rehearse, the set and the mise en scene were beautiful. Each individual set piece reflected the character that inhabited it wonderfully and it added such atmosphere to the show as a whole - the delicate linking of different lives in different places.

Your themes of redemption and forgiveness were evident throughout the play, even more strongly near the end. I must say that the play itself was also catered to my tastes, and you all did the best you could with such complex characters in the short time you had... and wow, you had your lines down better than any of us year 2's did back when we did Good Soul of Szechuan...

Also, the sound and lighting cues: kudos to you.

Those were the smoothest transitions I've seen out of any of the IB Plays in my memory. There were one or two mistakes, but they were hardly noticeable (I'm sure I only did as fellow lighting designer last year), and that really helped to retain the flow of the play as a whole. Poor sound transitions can often startle and jerk the audience out of immersion, but this wasn't an issue with your play at all.

Well, except for the inclusion of a little Pon Pon Pon, but my only complaint with that is that you didn't reach the chorus, haha.

Basically, all this can be summed up in the fact that I will likely coerce someone into getting a footage of your performance next year and emailing it to me.

That is all.

Congratulations, and really, celebrate.
You deserve it.

Sincerely,
Sabrina Sung

P.S: Watch our play too, please~