AYIE :

Good Evening Everybody, I am Azri Azmi bin Abd Aziz, a

teacher at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Seri Perling Johor
Bahru, Johor State of Malaysia. For your information, I am
also a Theater Technical Officer at the Johor State Education
Department since 2014 until now.

I started teaching since 2001 until now, I have gained a lot of

experience in conducting theater activities in the School with
some success at the State, National and International Levels.

Talking about involvement in the field of theater I’ve started

leads in several genres of High School theater for my
students more courage to communicate, have a high level of
self-confidence, the challenges I face in the early stages are
very high with time constraints and the task of a teacher who
is always busy with teaching assignments and extra classes,
yet with time management I was able to produce some
quality productions for the students.

Last year, when we facing the pandemic of Covid19, the

whole world have difficulties in curriculum together with the
academic. In Malaysia, the students still can join the
activities. our ministry of education still encourage the
students to join the program offers at national level. I
personnel guide the students to join two programs which is
at the first time ever, under online program . Thanks god, we
made it successfully. We managed the perform two online
theater and we got gold medal for Roselle and silver medal
for Mentera Megat Putra

Talking about reviews in two theaters that I staged last year,

namely Roselle through the Jom Teater Sekolah Menengah
National Level Program and Sumpah Megat Putera in the
National Level Secondary School Theater Competition 2020 is
a success in further developing students' talents besides
peeling storytelling through staging two theater productions.
this.
Megat Putera's oath is critically evaluated from the
perspective of a theatrical performance, it turns out that this
theater can achieve its staging objectives as expected by art
activists because it is a simple but meaningful script for me as
a Screenwriter and director. A mark of high recognition
appreciating all the sacrifices and perseverance of the
students in raising the name of the state of Johor to the
National Level so this competition is respected and revered in
the eyes of all theater teachers, Sumpah Megat Putera is a
theater that has a patriotic element about the greatness of a
prince who has betrayed his love for one's evil deeds,
because of this frustration Megat Putera decided to curse the
descendants of his ex -fiance if he colonized his feet to his
country, then he would vomit blood.

The main problem of the Megat Putera Oath script is on its

genre. It does not deserve to be categorized as a comedy or
melodrama genre because its protagonist is a character,
wanting to be portrayed as a distinguished character who has
gone through a lot of sacrifices and obstacles to achieve his
goals. Due to this feature, the script of Megat Putera's Oath
is suitable for the genre of tragedy. The protagonist in a
tragedy genre script is usually a person who is well known in
his community with superior achievements (according to
Banham 1990). The protagonist in a tragedy genre drama
script should be highlighted with a weakness in the form of
desires, dreams, ambitions, goals, habits or excessive
attitudes that influence all his actions (actions) to achieve the
main goal of the character.
This weakness should be an obstacle to the protagonist in
achieving his goal, from the beginning to the end of the plot.
These obstacles will exist as small crises which in turn give
birth to a major crisis at the climax stage of the plot and
eventually cause a change of fate on the protagonist
character. The small and large crises faced by the protagonist
are very important in highlighting the superiority of his main
character.
These desires, dreams, ambitions, goals, habits or attitudes
can only be in a positive or negative form for the genre of
tragedy. What is important is, it should be so outrageous as
to threaten the achievement of the main goal of the
protagonist. At the climax stage, when the protagonist is
faced with a major crisis, the character will face defeat and
subsequently experience a change of fate at the end of the
plot (plot resolution stage).

From the audience's point of view, throughout the staging of

the tragedy genre theater, the audience should always feel
worried and sorry for the small crises faced by the
protagonist. The concern and pity of this audience will
accumulate from the beginning of the story to the climax
stage. Only when the protagonist faces a permanent defeat
and faces a change of fate, then all the worries and pity held
by the audience will finally dissipate. This journey and
process of emotional resolution is known as emotional
catharsis.

Examination of the Oath of Megat Putera based on the

application of the genre confirms that the script genre is the
cause of the failure of this theater to portray the character of
MEGAT PUTERA as a superior character. The main weakness
of the protagonist in Megat Putera’s Oath is his love for his
fiance and his goal to tie the engagement ropes with a desire
that covers all aspects including the social and political of the
two kingdoms.

The Roselle Theater, is on the other hand, tells of Mr. Rafail's

obsession with his creations who are more concerned with
perfection in producing the handiwork of his creator, but
because of his excitement, his sculptures began to revolt due
to the injustice applied by his creator. In my opinion a good
script will present the first crisis as early as possible in
staging. This will make the audience continue to be
interested in following the actions of the actors until the end
of the story.

Overall, only the Scenes in Roselle on me managed to portray

the protagonist and antagonist characters with full artistry.
The Puncak Dramatic scene depicts the fury of the statues
and the creator's punishment to the creation material has a
profound effect on the Creator's special creation statues, the
Protagonist clearly faces a crisis to achieve his goal because
the way of communicating is not excessive sometimes does
not contribute to the main goal of the Creator Character
Tuan Rafail.

As a climax for Roselle, the Final Episode affects the emotions

and intellectuals of the audience. It features a crisis that
really undermines the main goal of this storytelling. The
director's artistic choices such as background music, lyrics,
movement style and choreography are very precise and
accurate to reveal the crisis faced by the protagonist.

The scene also managed to evoke a sense of concern and pity

for the characters among the audience. These artistic choices
in terms of set and costume backgrounds add value to the
audience’s visuals of the characters being translated on
stage.

This final episode for Roselle presents a resolution to the

crisis between Mr. Rafail’s personal goals and the state of the
Umbrellas protesting the Roselle statue. In this scene Mr.
Rafail’s decision is actually the defeat of his own character in
this theater.

Sinography angle in this staging is very important because in

modern theater, sinography plays an important role in terms
of Set Position, Props, Makeup, Lighting and Sound System so
that it gives an impact to the audience directly.

Here is a little I can share with you all, producing a theatrical

production cannot be done without planning and needs to be
carried out with consistent work results in bringing the script
to the stage.

Thank you