'TUGU' means statue. This play was created by Ms. Latifah Y. E. for the drama production in year 2003, with the help of the scriptwriter Stephanie Lim. The playwright concentrated on the element of patriotism that most of our teenagers do not have. With three statues of "Tunku Abdul Rahman, Hang Tuah and a soldier" the play focuses on one setting - the memorial park. In this park, unfortunate events happened. With the main actress as an old lady who works to sweep and clean the park, she complains that the park is 'dirty'. No one appreciate these three statues nor care for what they did to the country. They do not honour them but use the park to run their bad activities. The villains are :-
1. School students that come to the park after escape from school as their gathering venue. They change their clothing and hanging out with bad friends and adults.
2. Gangsters meet up here to do their business. Drugs trade and fights normally occur in front of these statues. The drug dealer sells their drugs to the drug addicts and when these drug addicts are captured deep into their fantasy of it, these gangsters would laugh and leave them be.
3. Prostitution. This park has become their meet up point. Their customers will come and go, at the end, these customers come back in with AIDS positive.
4. A girl dumps her unwanted child at the park, which later is found by police patrols.
With all these events, the park sweeper has claimed the park as 'dirty'. Feeling sad and depressed of knowing these, the sweeper monologues of her frustrations, but only these three statues are her listeners. She leaves the park sad knowing no one can do anything about it, not even these statues.
Her strong monologues has awaken these statues in taking the action into their own hands. They come alive and kill these bad villains, one by one, vanishing them from the mother earth. At the end of the play, the park is filled with laughter by the children and some old and young are doing their exercise at the park. The old park sweeper is smiling upon this, claiming now the park is clean. She proudly looks at the three 'tugu' showing her gratitude and honour.
This play symbolizes a deep meaning of patriotism. These memorial statues are put up in honouring them for their contributions to the country once before. They have done their part as responsible citizens that love their country, thus we too have to play our role.
With 15 students as cast and crew, the team was trained by Ms. Latifah herself. They went to Sandakan Divisional Level English Drama Competition held in Tiong Hua Secondary School and got second place, lost to SMK Elopura Bestari.
**We are sorry that we cannot provide much information of this play as most of the details are lost by the time of this website production. Any inconveniences are much regretted.
1. School students that come to the park after escape from school as their gathering venue. They change their clothing and hanging out with bad friends and adults.
2. Gangsters meet up here to do their business. Drugs trade and fights normally occur in front of these statues. The drug dealer sells their drugs to the drug addicts and when these drug addicts are captured deep into their fantasy of it, these gangsters would laugh and leave them be.
3. Prostitution. This park has become their meet up point. Their customers will come and go, at the end, these customers come back in with AIDS positive.
4. A girl dumps her unwanted child at the park, which later is found by police patrols.
With all these events, the park sweeper has claimed the park as 'dirty'. Feeling sad and depressed of knowing these, the sweeper monologues of her frustrations, but only these three statues are her listeners. She leaves the park sad knowing no one can do anything about it, not even these statues.
Her strong monologues has awaken these statues in taking the action into their own hands. They come alive and kill these bad villains, one by one, vanishing them from the mother earth. At the end of the play, the park is filled with laughter by the children and some old and young are doing their exercise at the park. The old park sweeper is smiling upon this, claiming now the park is clean. She proudly looks at the three 'tugu' showing her gratitude and honour.
This play symbolizes a deep meaning of patriotism. These memorial statues are put up in honouring them for their contributions to the country once before. They have done their part as responsible citizens that love their country, thus we too have to play our role.
With 15 students as cast and crew, the team was trained by Ms. Latifah herself. They went to Sandakan Divisional Level English Drama Competition held in Tiong Hua Secondary School and got second place, lost to SMK Elopura Bestari.
**We are sorry that we cannot provide much information of this play as most of the details are lost by the time of this website production. Any inconveniences are much regretted.
