There are seven things that could make a play, a good play
1) it should satisfy the intellect
so, that it will not be too hard to be understood and to be digested by the reader...
2)must have proper organization
so that we can see the pattern of and the development of the play..so that we could know when it starts and when the play ends.
3)must have ideational content
-so that we could know what the play is all about with reading it
4)deal with human experiences
-if it deals about the aliens, we cannot relate it because we have never even seen one
5)economy in term of time
-so that we won't be bored to death if the play is too long
6)novelty
-it should be something new or a new discovery about the play so that people would love to see the new idea instead of watching the same old thing again.
7)impacts
-so that it will make you think rather than just going home blankly after watching the play.
As a conclusion, a play will be the best play ever if it compliments all of the 7 criterias above.

King Lear...
It is a very hard play,for me.
I've tried to read it and yet it is very confusing.
After reading the first scene, i was left with more question marks than understanding.

Now, we are still having this lecture for Antigone. I found that Antigone is a very strong woman but she was not supposed to be born at that time, just like Hang Jebat should not be born at his time as people at that time are very loyal to their King no matter what.It sounds stupid for me to follow the King's rules as he is not the one who create us. he has no right to control us in every ways. I found this interesting history of how Tiresias got his prophecy, and i really think that it is very funny.
Tiresias was the son of Everes and the nymph Chariclo; he was a blind prophet, the most famous soothsayer of ancient Greece.
The most famous account of the origin of his blindness and his prophetic talent is as follows. When Tiresias was walking in the woods one day, he came upon two great serpents copulating; he struck them with his staff, and was thereupon transformed into a woman. Seven years later, she/he passed by the same place and came upon the same two serpents copulating; she/he struck them again with the staff and was turned back into a man. Some time later, Zeus and Hera were arguing over who had more pleasure in sex, the man or the woman: Zeus said it was the woman, while Hera claimed men got more pleasure from the act. To settle the argument, they consulted Tiresias, since he had experienced life as both sexes, and Tiresias sided with Zeus. In her anger, Hera struck Tiresias blind. Since Zeus could not undo the act of another deity, he gave Tiresias the gift of prophecy in compensation.
Another account says that Tiresias accidentally saw Athena naked, and she covered his eyes with her hands, thus rendering him blind. When Tiresias' mother Chariclo asked Athena to restore her son's sight, the goddess could not undo her own action but gave him the gift of prophecy as compensation.
There are many tales about individual prophecies of Tiresias: he predicted the manner of Narcissus' death; he tried to warn Oedipus of the rashness of that king's inquiries about his parents; he predicted that the sacrifice of Menoeceus, son of Creon, would permit the forces of Eteocles to repulse the army of the Seven Against Thebes. Tiresias eventually died from drinking from the spring Tilphussa, but even after death his shade was able to offer valuable prophecy to the hero Odysseus.

After having a few lectures with Dr. Edwin, I have gained new knowledge about theatre. At first, I thought that theatre is just the stage where people are talking about boring stuff. And after attending the lectures, then only I found out that play, theatre and drama are 3 different things!