Continue reading here... https://m.phnompenhpost.com/post-life-a ... expat-lifeIt's human nature to want to see your life reflected back as art. It’s exactly this kind of harmless narcissism that wins awards for movies about movie-making – think The Disaster Artist or La La Land. The newest play from the Phnom Penh Players, Missionaries, Mercenaries & Monsters, an original work, fits squarely in that tradition.
It’s a play about Phnom Penh expats for expats, written, directed and acted by expats. Although, in this case, foreigners may not exactly like what they see when they look in the mirror.
The play follows a group of people – all regulars at the same bar – as they navigate life in Phnom Penh. We see their ups and downs, their first dates and break-ups, their business struggles and successes. It’s the characters who drive the action forward, rather than a plot in the traditional sense of the word.
All the stereotypical Phnom Penh characters make an appearance: the bright-eyed recent university graduate embarking on a six-month stint at an NGO, the jaded expat who fancies herself wise to the grittier underbelly of life in the city, and the party-hopping young foreigner, living from cocktail to cocktail.
Missionaries, Mercenaries & Monsters
Missionaries, Mercenaries & Monsters
I've personally never been a fan of theatre, plays, shows or whatever, but this looks like it could be good for a laugh...
I'm not a negative person, I encourage people all the time...it's usually to f**k off! But, whatever.
Waiting for 440- the opera. A few fat chunts from the present and past can play themselves.
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I would like to see this, who did the writing though? If I were to choose writers I would go for playboy and robw.
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Unfortunately you can't choose and it's already been penned by Ballsack Lane's finest.crazyjohn wrote:I would like to see this, who did the writing though? If I were to choose writers I would go for playboy and robw.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
I've seen a few productions by this crew and they are good. Really good.Lucky Lucan wrote:Unfortunately you can't choose and it's already been penned by Ballsack Lane's finest.crazyjohn wrote:I would like to see this, who did the writing though? If I were to choose writers I would go for playboy and robw.
I'd go to this one but it's on this weekend ithink and somehow I didn't get to hear about it. There may be a ticket or two left, in which case race me to get one for tomorrow.
I've also had to revisit my prejudices here 'cause when you meet the dudes, though they look Ballsack, they are cool folks. They do acid and everything.
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I know a few of them, they're cool, I was just taking the piss.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
I did.Miguelito wrote:Anyone go to this? It looked fun.
While the idea is pretty good and a lot of episodes and characters are not unreal, I walked out with the same feeling many people I talked to did: quite mixed. I know some of the people from production and this is not to offend anyone. But it felt premature and a bit shallow. As a an expat living in Cambodia for 6 years, they certainly could have gone deeper into Cambodian culture and its understanding instead of concentrating on losers and drunks. Anecdotal stories that were supposedly collected from real people a lot of the time were pointless and plain boring. Overall a bit depressing.
I prefer Playboy's types of expats - a bit more on point and funnier
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I didn’t see it but was interested in it. I spoke to 3 separate people who attended and they all gave similar reviews to the above.HsRob wrote:I did.Miguelito wrote:Anyone go to this? It looked fun.
While the idea is pretty good and a lot of episodes and characters are not unreal, I walked out with the same feeling many people I talked to did: quite mixed. I know some of the people from production and this is not to offend anyone. But it felt premature and a bit shallow. As a an expat living in Cambodia for 6 years, they certainly could have gone deeper into Cambodian culture and its understanding instead of concentrating on losers and drunks. Anecdotal stories that were supposedly collected from real people a lot of the time were pointless and plain boring. Overall a bit depressing.
I prefer Playboy's types of expats - a bit more on point and funnier
Kind of like a missed opportunity. Could have been good but missed the mark.
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Alas, proper expat characters seem thin on the ground these days, they are either moving on, settling down, or just plain dying on us.HsRob wrote: ... I prefer Playboy's types of expats - a bit more on point and funnier
Their replacements, Expat 2.0, are a dull bunch, posting in FaceBook groups and asking where to buy avocado non-diary ice-cream, and asking where one can find a gymnastics home tutor for little Matillda as she is such a star, but is not being nurtured properly at her school.
Even the roads have now been covered in tarmacadam and we have electricity for more than 12 hours a day.
Expat 2.0 are nothing but a bunch pussies.
Maybe a group of us should write up some of our anecdotes from being real expats in Cambodia
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The Expat 1.0 existed in a different time. The city was gnarly and we liked that.
Meanwhile the city has developed so we have nice things such as flat streets, street lights, shops that open after dark, tall buildings and fancy coffee shops. And we don't have nasty things like the Tonle Bassac slums, anyone remember them? That's what the area was known for until they started evicting the residents in the mid 2000s. Now it's known for beardo twats.
If Expat 2.0 was dragged into a time-warp and dumped in Expat 1.0 land they would likely freak out and be on the next flight out. They'd try and call their mum first but would give up after wasting $10 in cards on a two minute noisy call from a phone booth.
Similarly if Expat 1.0 was dragged out of the dirty old town and dumped at Koh Pich 2018 or Ballsack Lane they would likely have a heart attack.
Meanwhile the city has developed so we have nice things such as flat streets, street lights, shops that open after dark, tall buildings and fancy coffee shops. And we don't have nasty things like the Tonle Bassac slums, anyone remember them? That's what the area was known for until they started evicting the residents in the mid 2000s. Now it's known for beardo twats.
If Expat 2.0 was dragged into a time-warp and dumped in Expat 1.0 land they would likely freak out and be on the next flight out. They'd try and call their mum first but would give up after wasting $10 in cards on a two minute noisy call from a phone booth.
Similarly if Expat 1.0 was dragged out of the dirty old town and dumped at Koh Pich 2018 or Ballsack Lane they would likely have a heart attack.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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The good old days weren't that good. Time was one of the late night.bar choices was Sharkey and when they shut it.was off to.Walkabout. What a dump. Only managed one all nighter.there to see the dawn in and that was enough. Good.that the amount of power cuts has reduced although now we coming into the really hot season that likely to change.
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Speaking of Power-Cuts ...
Today this numpty expat 2.0 is unhappy about his sporadically interrupted power supply:
I started to write a reply to him ... that when I first visited Cambodia in the late '90s we were lucky to get 4-6 hours of electricity per day. That when I first moved here permanently in 2001, that we usually had 4-6 hour power cuts daily, and up to 12 hours per day in the hot season.
But then I decided not to bother, obviously Snowflakes melt in the heat ...
50 hours out of 720 hours per month ...
Today this numpty expat 2.0 is unhappy about his sporadically interrupted power supply:
I started to write a reply to him ... that when I first visited Cambodia in the late '90s we were lucky to get 4-6 hours of electricity per day. That when I first moved here permanently in 2001, that we usually had 4-6 hour power cuts daily, and up to 12 hours per day in the hot season.
But then I decided not to bother, obviously Snowflakes melt in the heat ...
50 hours out of 720 hours per month ...
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F me, you're starting to sound like the government blaming everything on either America or the KR. Eg. Brothers don't consider the power cuts as a problem, remember times were much harder under the KR. He, or some government spokesmen, actually said something similar to that last year.Playboy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 5:33 pmSpeaking of Power-Cuts ...
Today this numpty expat 2.0 is unhappy about his sporadically interrupted power supply:
I started to write a reply to him ... that when I first visited Cambodia in the late '90s we were lucky to get 4-6 hours of electricity per day. That when I first moved here permanently in 2001, that we usually had 4-6 hour power cuts daily, and up to 12 hours per day in the hot season.
But then I decided not to bother, obviously Snowflakes melt in the heat ...
50 hours out of 720 hours per month ...
I don't agree with the poster that rated Sharkey's better than Walkabout. Least ways, not in the early to late naughties.
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