Be With Me, my beloved love, that my smile will not fade.

Be With Me (Eric Khoo) is one of the best shows i've seen this year. It captures the reality of being so painfully human and the vulnerability and disappointments that love brings. To me, the show was so starkly real. And Eric Khoo does a really good job of plumbing the human depths and conveying emotions and meanings that mere words can never achieve.
In all, i think only ten lines were spoken throughout the show. It was almost like those abstract silent movies... all movement, silence..facial expressions, body language that captures it all.

The story centres around the character of Theresa Chan, this blind and deaf lady who initially speaks only Cantonese, but eventually learns how to beat all odds and learn how to write and speak English despite her double handicap. Imagine that! I can't see how that's possible! Yet this lady did... and in the silent and dark prison she found herself in, she could still be content and find joy in God's love. Totally unbelieveable. Utterly inspiring.
It makes me feel like an ass for always complaining about life and blaming God when things don't go my way. Too many of us are like that, ain't we?

Well, here's one woman who took life as it comes, the shit that it deals her with, and embraces it with all she can. Now's that sheer courage.