Friday, September 08, 2006

WOW! The Bangsar Actors Studio.
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The Actors Studio in Malaysia was set up in 1989 by a husband and wife team by the name Joe Hasham and Faridah Merican. One of the prime objectives of the Actors Studio’s formation is to encourage the presentation of Professional Theatre in Malaysia. The Actors Studio also helps by training actors, directors, writers, designers and production personnel.

Later on The Actors Studio expanded in March 1998 by establishing The Actors Studio Academy, which serves as an institute for the teaching of performing arts. There are several workshops by Malaysia and foreign experts have been held here. Isn’t that’s interesting. Some of the most popular classes are Joe Hasham’s Acting for Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced. The studio also works with under privileged and special children who have the opportunity to participate in specially arranged classes. This not only gives them the chance to act but also the feel and enjoyment on acting.
On January 20, 2001, The Actors Studio opened another performance venue, where a 260 seater which is located at Level 3 in Bangsar Shopping Centre, Kuala Lumpur. It is specially designed to cater to all forms of Performing Arts not only on Drama but also on Dance, Music and Comedy. Wow! There are so much to explore. This is a brief history of The Actors Studio. Enjoy

1 comment:

crimson_lady said...

Wow! Thanks a lot, Dave. If not because of you, I probably will be ignorant to this Bangsar Actor Studio thingy for the rest of my life. In our lives, we tend to take things for granted, of course I am referring to me myself too. If not because of what Dave has written in the blog about the history of Bangsar Actor Studio, we might always assume that the studio just pop up like that, in the thin air, without knowing how much sweats and tears behind the scene.

Doing something you like isn’t always turning out to be pleasant in your life. That is the reason why people often enough opt to do something they are not actually into it but they need to do for the sake of survival. For instance, we found students studying the stream that they are not interested in, undergraduates opt for courses that they dislike, working class find the job they hated and lifetime partner might as well choose their spouse based on criterion, not out of romance.

All I want to say is that, if you happened to love something or someone and see the future of yours glowing ahead, just go for it. Who knows, one day you might be the next entrepreneur of other field, just like what happened to the Joes who make a success out of the studio. Miracle does happen, why don’t give it a try?