Avenue Q - adult puppet show with above 16 years old themes
Monday, 3. November 2008, 01:40:14
this is a 2003 tony award winning musical that was based from a book about growing up in new york...
and it is presented in a whole new refreshing format...
PUPPETS!
the sets and the songs sounded a lot like
you can read more about it at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2006/jun/29/theatre
the freshly graduated Princeton is going through what most of us have gone through or would go through...
that sense of lost of purpose when we graduate.
when we are in school we feel that the world is our oyster, we are ready to tackle the world's problems.
and when we finally graduated, we realised that our BA in arts or science can't get us a job! and the bigger problem, the idealism of having that sense of purpose or destiny that we suppose to have seems so elusive and far away...
is this what life would become?
drifting along?
can we find that purpose that will drive us?
presented in a cartoony, sesame street like songs and sets but it is certainly no kids friendly themes!
it was new york gritty life away from the up market park avenue area where life aren't pretty but functional.
the sense of purpose of all the occupants were somehow evolved or discovered by accident or hard work.
what touched me was not the funny lines and clever use of puppets to give this too clinique topic a twist, but the ever familiar struggle of searching for that purpose in life, the will of God for you.
the alpha course, the purpose driven life and many others christian courses and book try to help us to find that 'purpose'.
everyone wants to know what their purpose is but only some of us found it.
it can be a clear purpose... maybe Bill Gates can say.. Microsoft purpose; every home one PC. that will brings about change in the society and the world... and of course make him a very rich man along the way.
was Microsoft his purpose?
well today, with his wealth, it is running the foundation that will benefit many with his public health projects that is his purpose...
purpose is just a goal, a direction but not a prescription of the how but concept of the where.
there are turning points, phases of life that provoke us to think and search for that motivation in life. we need to and compelled to find 'it' so that we can move on.
but at times, we just need to move.
remembering my younger days, when i just graduated with a BA in arts, and not knowing what to do.
i was offered a temp job in a christian organisation and that somehow settled that bigger purpose in life; to love God through my service in Youth Ministry.
yet, i still need to constant define that purpose with every thing i do...
but the struggle got easier... with time and maybe maturity and faith...
just do it.. but listen to Godly people, listen to God, read the bible to know that it is along the lines that God wants His people to go, have faith that if all elements point to that just go!
if wrong direction, have faith that God will bring you back.
and i glad i need not go through that much ups and downs as the characters in the play to find the direction of my life.
not that i need not look anymore, but at least i know the direction i should look
and it is presented in a whole new refreshing format...
PUPPETS!
the sets and the songs sounded a lot like
you can read more about it at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2006/jun/29/theatre
the freshly graduated Princeton is going through what most of us have gone through or would go through...
that sense of lost of purpose when we graduate.
when we are in school we feel that the world is our oyster, we are ready to tackle the world's problems.
and when we finally graduated, we realised that our BA in arts or science can't get us a job! and the bigger problem, the idealism of having that sense of purpose or destiny that we suppose to have seems so elusive and far away...
is this what life would become?
drifting along?
can we find that purpose that will drive us?
presented in a cartoony, sesame street like songs and sets but it is certainly no kids friendly themes!
it was new york gritty life away from the up market park avenue area where life aren't pretty but functional.
the sense of purpose of all the occupants were somehow evolved or discovered by accident or hard work.
what touched me was not the funny lines and clever use of puppets to give this too clinique topic a twist, but the ever familiar struggle of searching for that purpose in life, the will of God for you.
the alpha course, the purpose driven life and many others christian courses and book try to help us to find that 'purpose'.
everyone wants to know what their purpose is but only some of us found it.
it can be a clear purpose... maybe Bill Gates can say.. Microsoft purpose; every home one PC. that will brings about change in the society and the world... and of course make him a very rich man along the way.
was Microsoft his purpose?
well today, with his wealth, it is running the foundation that will benefit many with his public health projects that is his purpose...
purpose is just a goal, a direction but not a prescription of the how but concept of the where.
there are turning points, phases of life that provoke us to think and search for that motivation in life. we need to and compelled to find 'it' so that we can move on.
but at times, we just need to move.
remembering my younger days, when i just graduated with a BA in arts, and not knowing what to do.
i was offered a temp job in a christian organisation and that somehow settled that bigger purpose in life; to love God through my service in Youth Ministry.
yet, i still need to constant define that purpose with every thing i do...
but the struggle got easier... with time and maybe maturity and faith...
just do it.. but listen to Godly people, listen to God, read the bible to know that it is along the lines that God wants His people to go, have faith that if all elements point to that just go!
if wrong direction, have faith that God will bring you back.
and i glad i need not go through that much ups and downs as the characters in the play to find the direction of my life.
not that i need not look anymore, but at least i know the direction i should look
WIDGETIZE