An interactive theatre benefiting children with special needs, orphans, the needy, students and adults.

The Day I Met the Prince is a play adapted by Kuo Pao Kun, a Singapore playwright, based on the French novel ‘The Little Prince”. Presented to you by Universiti Sains Malaysia.

An enticing and imaginative journey of the Little Prince and ‘I’ in order to find the solution on "How to save a rose from being eaten up by a goat?". In their adventure, they encounter people from different backgrounds having different goals and objectives they want to reach in life. But, will the Little Prince and 'I' ever find the answer in time before daylight at the Little Prince's planet? This play touches on issues such as individuality, imagination, education, dreams, creativity, and freedom of growth in the children's minds and senses. 

The students of Universiti Sains Malaysia, will be staging a children’s theatrical production entitled The Day I Met the Prince to benefit children with special needs, orphans, the needy, students and adults. In ensuring the success of this program, the primary source of funding is dependent on corporate sponsorship. As such, we would like to extend an invitation to your esteemed establishment to become one of our project funders and supporters.

Although, in general, arts is beginning to be accepted within the main streams of the socio-economic structures of society; we feel that, we can be part of that process, in aiding and quickening the spread of its acceptance within society. As such, it is essential to get children to be a part of this blossoming process, for it is in the future of our children’s education, that generations to come, may evolve to eradicate .

In a world of ever growing socio-economic status, there are some fractions of children who are being left out. Therefore, the heart of the play is focused at these groups of individuals, while drawing the attention to education, poverty eradication, cultural and performing arts.

We believe that by utilising the tools of drama in Children’s Theatre, which is essentially, a process of stimulating creativity, challenging perceptions of the world and themselves, and most crucially, it provides an outlet for emotions, thoughts and dreams, we believe that we can, spark the imaginative process of creativity in a child. For when we, nurture creativity, we give birth to imagination, and when imagination blossoms, the fertile process of seeking knowledge is awakened.

Objective and Outcomes

This project aims at building:

• Confidence

With Confidence, safety becomes a natural asset; this then provides a platform to explore emotions, which then creates opportunities for self-development, in having the freedom to make their own choices.

• Creativity and Imagination

Through the activity of role playing, we believe that Creativity and Imagination can set a person out of the cycle of adversity, as it will create a foundation to problem solve through various situations, providing pathways to different outcomes, in the hope of  generating better living standards.

• Independence

When children are independent, they are intrinsically motivated to explore their own reasoning in creating their own activity. We believe, when this process of independence is achieved, they will have the clarity of self-development in taking ownership to change their living standards.

Date, Time and Venue

Date/Time                   : 10 & 11 December 2015 (8. 30 p.m.)

                                       12 December 2015 (11 a.m.  &  3.00 p.m.)

Venue                          : Panggung Sasaran, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang.

Funds

The money being funded will be utilised for :

1. Production Cost
   - set, props and costumes designs.
   - posters, banners and flyers printing
2. Goodies bags which we will be giving the each children.
3. Free entry passes for the children with special needs, orphans, the poor/needy                                                                

Performing arts is indeed very special, we are interacting with humans and what we perform is something not recorded. Hence, the beauty of it is that, each show is unique yet challenging at times because not all shows will be the same. The audiences are not the same, so the responses are always different in each show, the time/duration varies, and the movement or interaction of actors with the audience also changes with accordance to the diversity of the audiences’ age maturity (children/teenagers/adults/senior citizens).

Another challenge which we are all excited and at the same time quite nervous to take up;- we will be performing for children with special needs. They require special attention as well as clarity in delivering the show, which we hope dearly that the actors can do capably. Nevertheless, we are confident in making this show an interesting, captivating, and memorable one for each and every audience that will be coming, regardless of who they are and what their backgrounds are.