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RLT’s Tales of Christmas: “The Most Wonderful Show of the Year!”

Aurelie D’Couto

The beautiful holiday, Christmas, shines bright like a diamond! From November 30 to December 2, Dalat International School amazed the audience at PenangPAC with the performance, RLT’s Tales of Christmas!

Throughout the semester, the RLT Players in the world of drama and theatre have been quite busy, especially when it came to working hard to make the performance a wonderful one. Performing isn’t always easy, but with practice, persistence, and a never-give-up attitude, an excellent work of art is sure to appear. Even though Christmas was a few months away, as it was the beginning of the year, it gave the RLT Players plenty of time to get ready for a long-awaited Christmas show. Since Christmas is one of the best holidays of the year, the motivation had to remain high; giving a performance that would be memorable was the perfect way to bring the Christmas season here in Malaysia. 

Christmas stories from Mr. Mark Sasse and Mr. Doug Yost, along with well-known Christmas songs, were included to give memories and Christmas cheer to everyone in attendance. With a couple of well-performed acts and instrumental music from the musicians, the RLT Players were certain to give their all in everything that they did to prepare for “the most wonderful time of the year!”
  
An actress, Ashley Kim (11), said, “So, this year, I decided to join RLT because I was actually part of it last year. So, I was part of Mr. Sasse’s production, and I just enjoy being with the group. There’s a lot of bonding, and also, it was really fun trying to characterize, and we all helped each other to build character. I just really enjoyed that, so that’s why I decided to continue it this year. What I like about RLT is that instead of being one full story or play, it shows small snippets, and I like the variety because one skit can be really comical and then the other one can be really deep. I just really like how diverse and multifaceted it is. The audience can be included in all of the plays. That’s what I really like about RLT.”

It’s true that when it comes to the RLT productions, the actors and actresses can come together as one family and work together to make their performances come to life, which they all did in Tales of Christmas; it was an excellent mixture of comical and deep skits. One of the skits, The Kettle Man, was about the Salvation Army and donations. In fact, a portion of the ticket sales went to the Salvation Amy to support those in need, since Christmas is the holiday of giving. It was great that the skits offered some good lessons like how we need to be caring, accepting, and know that our families are more important than focusing on monetary gain.

Overall, the RLT Players performed spectacularly at PenangPAC! Merry Christmas to all. 

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