Now, where do I start?
From the beginning, oh right.
A Language of Their Own is a poetic play written by Chay Lee, a Singapore-born, US-based playwright about the story of 4 gay individuals and the relationships that develop between them and others, the insecurities they face and the realities of AIDS and of living in a humanely imperfect world where we are sometimes so flawed and ethics is arguable. The play explores very typical gay character stereotypes (of which I wished more normative or un-gay gay characters should be depicted), but it does remind us that these people exists, or at least parts of them do reside in each of us.
The winning point for the play is the language: the deeply crafted semantics which leave so much room for interpretation that covers a wide gamut of concepts and emotions. Even the sex scene depictions carry much more than just simplistic primal pleasure and orgasmic delight. The first part was unforgiving to the illiterate, bombarding the audience with words put into full gyration and fleeting between the past, present and future and also between dialogues and monologues at the speed of sound. The second is equally unforgiving with the relationships starting to unravel, ravel, and basically mutate like as radiation-stimulated cell.
It's almost genius mindfuckery. Almost. But I'd recommend this to anyone who is sufficiently proficient at English regardless of sexual orientation of gender identity. It's good to remind ourselves about our own state of humanity.
So what about me?
Over the years, I have (through many attempts of trying out a relationship) learnt more about myself and more about what I want and that's definitely a good thing. The one thing that I have not (and probably won't) grasped is the ethos of the humanity of relationships. What is good? What is bad? What is right? What is wrong? Who decides? Me? You? Us? You can say that each of us should just mind our own businesses, but even basic communication already involves trespassing into other people's sacred places.
The biggest flaw of mankind is our ability to judge. The biggest strength is out ability to love.
Let's just hope love is the trump suit.
XOXO
