Teater Ekamatra

Adam is sent away by his mother, Siti, to undergo the rite of passage of every Singaporean son: National Service. Except, he was born in Australia and has no sense of what Singapore means to him. His return is further complicated by Siti’s overzealous need for him to rekindle the ties she severed a long time ago — and experience the quintessential rite of passage of every Singaporean Malay son: circumcision.&nbsp;Aided by an uncle and grandmother who are not quite what they seem and an out of sorts ‘maker o

Potong (2023)

Director

When a father takes his life, his wife grieves, his daughter wonders, and his mother laughs.&nbsp;Berak&nbsp;looks at the whimsical journey of a family dealing with mortality. Adapted from Chong Tze Chien’s award-winning&nbsp;Poop!,&nbsp;Berak&nbsp;stars the stellar cast of Siti Khalijah Zainal, Fir Rahman, Siti Hajar Abdul Gani, and Aidli ‘Alin’ Mosbit.With its humorous musings on family, love, and grief,&nbsp;Berak&nbsp;promises to speak to your heart in unexpected ways, filling it with magic, laughter, a

Berak (2022)

Berak chronicles the aftermath of a suicide: A grandmother bargains with divine powers to release her son's soul from hell. Failing which, she brings him home; she takes over the reins of bringing up her granddaughter, while keeping her daughter-in-law at bay, saving the granddaughter all for herself. She tries to instill in her granddaughter that death is merely a joke, that there's nothing to cry about as she takes her on a mind trip towards the underworld and purgatory. These personal fantasies of the af

Berak (2020)

Rupa co.lab

A night-hour safehouse for the troubled youths, dropouts, runaways and delinquents of the Malay community is run by a pair of ex-offenders. When external intervention looms, it will take their collective efforts to keep the walls of their home up. Or will they come tumbling down? Written by Nessa Anwar, Rumah Dayak is an unflinching look at the struggle to guard a home built out of circumstances surrounding poverty, deprivation and abuse.

Performed in Malay and English, with English surtitles. Rating to 

Rumah Dayak (2019)

Set Designer

Cake Theatrical Productions

Urban legend has it that Sophocles, the Granddaddy of Tragedy, died from holding his breath while reciting a particularly long line from Antigone, the story of a young woman from Thebes, who had the cheek to defy her uncle-ruler Creon to bury her brother Polyneices. Receiving a proper burial was a big deal then. The deceased without an appropriate send-off would be denied entry into the Underworld and forced to roam the shores of River Styx as a restless ghost forever. Antigone wasn’t about to let that happ

Rubber Girl on the loose (2019)

Production Designer

In 2003, Teater Ekamatra created Projek Suitcase, a project with a poor theatre format involving one actor and one suitcase. It is now presented as a site-specific mini-festival of monologues exploring the power of storytelling through the solitary voice. Projek Suitcase is inspired by the medicine man, selling ointments in back alleys, equipped with only his bag and many tales to convince his audience.

Die Before You Die:&nbsp;this powerful quote has managed to find its way into many religions, beliefs 

Projek Suitcase (2018)

Artistic Director

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Bulan Madu (2018)

Temple sees the invention of a mythological universe where all the quarters of the world are at odds. A sports hall, once the diplomatic meeting arena of the now opposing sides, stands desolate.

7 people, assailed, stand at the entrance of the great hall. Quickly, they enter and bolt the doors. Some nights they hear pounding on the doors but they keep very still and do nothing. Within the inner sanctum, they create their own rules, find their own order. They wait.

One day, they awake to find the doors

Temple (2018)

In 1943, the Japanese film 'The Tiger of Malaya' was released. Based on the life story of Tani Yutaka, a Japanese man who lived on the east coast of Malaya, the film portrayed him as a patriotic agent who liberated the Malay natives from British imperialists and Chinese capitalists.

Now, more than 70 years later, a group of actors are going to reenact scenes from the film. Real Malay actors will replace the 'brown face' Japanese actors in the original. Chinese actors will play antagonists who are 'less e

Tiger of Malaya (2018)

Adam is sent away by his mother, Siti, to undergo the rite of passage of every Singaporean Son, National Service. Except, he was born in Australia and has no sense of what Singapore means to him. His journey back 'home' is further complicated by Siti's zealous need for him to reconnect the ties and links that she severed a long time ago when she left, and experience the quintessential rite of passage of every Singaporean Malay Son, circumcision.&nbsp;

Aided by an Uncle and Grandmother who are not sure of

Potong (2018)

Cast

“A badly decomposed corpse was found floating on Singapore River early this morning…”

Hope, the root word of “hoping”, “hopeful”, “hopefulness”, and the like; a word that serves as the thrust for the condition, the needs, the wants of each and every human being.

A father, a mother, to a daughter; and two friends. Human beings, each one of them. Desperate, dejected, whose fates remain undecided, whose dreams remain unrealised, and whose ambitions remain undefined, only because deep in their hearts, the

Hope (Harap) (2017)

With elections around the corner, a political party is planning to field candidates in a five-member Group Representation Constituency. On the shortlist are a Minister, a Brigadier-General, a high-flying lawyer and a grassroots organiser.

But the team is not complete without a minority candidate. This candidate has to be likeable. He or she has to be a respected member of the community. Most importantly, he or she has to be... Chinese.

GRC examines what it means to be a part of a minority in a topsy-t

Geng Rebut Cabinet (2016)

Costume Designer

A political party is fielding its candidates in a five-member Group Representation Constituency. Among them are a Minister, an army Brigadier General, a high-flying lawyer and a grassroots organiser. But their team is not complete without a minority candidate. This candidate has to be likeable. He or she has to be a respected member of the community. And most importantly, he or she has to be...&nbsp;Chinese.

Teater Ekamatra is proud to present GRC, a brand new play written by celebrated playwright Alfian

Geng Rebut Cabinet (2015)

No words heard written spoken can fix what is broken but
damn if we don’t try try try harder faster to be stronger better
than our yesterday selves so all eyes ears fists fingers we delve
into territory unknown how time has flown now we are standing
scared in the sacred soul-searching whilst naked wondering
wandering about this machine is there a place any space to pin
some
spare
hope

If a body seeks a home, it must either find or build one. Decimal Points [infinity] is a journey into an amusemen

Decimal Points [Infinity] (2015)

The Necessary Stage

In&nbsp;untitled women number one,&nbsp;two women talk about their relationships, their past and future. Featuring Edith Podesta and Ethel Yap, the play looks at the notions of pain, death and interdependence, drawing from stories about gender, sexuality and womanhood.


untitled women number one (2015)

untitled cow number one&nbsp;is about the journey of a widowed cow through 12 days of mourning. Performed by Sharda Harrison and Bani Haykal, the play is influenced by Hindu and Buddhist texts, images and myths, and incorporates physical movement and soundscape.&nbsp;


untitled cow number one (2015)

In Kesamet, orgone is food, water, energy. Orgone is life. Dan works in the factory, producing orgone from his body day after day. At night, he dreams of a woman whose face he cannot see. Someone he believes is from a past he does not remember. His only friend, Talulah tells him it's for his own good. Kesamet survives when everyone plays their role. But is surviving enough?


Paradise (2014)

Publicity Designer

I had always wanted to write a play about Singapore's most famous fugitive/detainee - Mas Selamat Kastari.

But there was a problem. Because he was detained under the Internal Security Act, rather than convicted in a normal court, one never heard directly from him. What we had instead were statements from the Ministry of Home Affairs, based on their 'intelligence-gathering'. This is of course a deviation from the usual judicial process where evidence is produced in court and a defendant is allowed to repr

Kakak Kau Punya Laki (2013)

Irfan Kasban

94:05, a monologue, invites the audience to the life and memories of Ahmad bin Abdullah, who struggles with his health, where death appears to be more imminent with each passing day.

He recites Surah 94 – Relief, focusing on 94:05 “So, verily, with every difficulty, there is relief”, and shares stories of the Prophet Muhammad from memory, to ease himself, and maybe&nbsp;even find a reason to want to continue to live.


94:05 (2013)

Performer

5.1 refers to the six channel surround sound multichannel audio system - the most commonly used layout in both commercial cinemas and home theatres. It is also about the search for self in a densely populated space, a space with a population that is reaching a 5.1 million mark.

Decimal Points 5.1&nbsp;is a wordless movement based performance, incorporating radio frequency motion sensors, neo futuristic costumes and unconventional live vocal experimentation, colliding techno toys with raw human physicalit

Decimal Points 5.1 (2012)

The cheetah spies a cavernous place
Wounds of stilled instance leaving no trace
Cherub smiling sweet among flaming spurs
A blessing hiding in shadowed curse.
Relics dissipate with clouds at pace
As screams of mellowed kindly verse
Twist the naked will to traverse
That which cocoons a heartened face
Maternal ascension of bleeding grace.

Bleeding Grace&nbsp;is the story of two pedestrian lives. They meet, they laugh, they make a promise. She has a child, he begins to question what he wants. They ta

Bleeding Grace (2012)

Collaborator

The art of living in the in-between&nbsp;is a collaborative art project featuring installation, film, performance, workshops and gigs that uncover the inspirations and fantasies that have catalyzed 5 years of works by Cake.

Over 5 days, a shophouse is transformed into a hotbed of images, words, sound, strange movement, magnetic encounters and unexpected happenings sometimes way into the night! Wander through the rooms, each flowing and ebbing with exquisite strangeness or come especially for the performa

The Art of Living in the In-Between (2010)

Artist

First performed in Kuala Lumpur in 2009 as part of leading Malaysian arts collective Five Arts Centre’s 25th Anniversary Celebrations,&nbsp;Cuckoo Birds&nbsp;is a kaleidoscopic collision of personal and collective stories, connected and disconnected characters, real and imagined events all played out within a plastic container, sealed for extra protection! Boldly encountering things violent, random and absurd,&nbsp;Cuckoo Birds&nbsp;is a contemporary theatrical experiment exploring the search for serenity i

Cuckoo Birds (2010)

Devisor

Man: This breath. See? Can you see it? This breath. Stop. [Tries to hold his breath.] But it escapes. Willful breath. You are my master. I am your slave.

The man is restless. One minute he is in a barren wasteland, the next he is in a public toilet in the city, the next he's sitting on a rock with a book, the next he's dragging body bags across endless dust. The man is restless. He wants to disappear. There is also a fisherman and a woman of great disrepute. They live and interact with the man. They know

Invisibility / Breathing (2010)

The Finger Players

Cat, Lost &amp; Found finds its charm in the little things that most of us wouldn’t give a second look. The story about a salesman who falls in love with an usher in a movie theatre is a modern day fairy tale that has weird and wonderful characters permeating the stage. A salesman falls in love with the usher who is besotted with a stray cat in the cinema. Meanwhile, the hero of the movie showing in the theatre loses the plot and enters real life to find his brother’s murderer, leaving his hapless wife wait

Cat, Lost & Found (2009)

The Goat Head was an artist. His most famous work, a magnificent blueprint of a utopian city.

One day as the Goat Head and his expectant wife appear to address the public, a gunshot is fired and the dictator is assassinated. Dissidents stage a coup and gain control of the country. A massive hunt is launched for all goats.&nbsp;

All goats are wanted.
All goats are hunted.
After a time of purging, the dust finally settles.&nbsp;

Several years later two prisoners, Munsee and Boo wait behind bars.&nb

The Comedy of the Tragic Goats (2009)

Five Arts Centre

Cuckoo Birds&nbsp;is a kaleidoscopic collision of personal and collective stories, connected and disconnected characters, real and imagined events all played out within a plastic container, sealed for protection. Boldly encountering things violent, random and absurd,&nbsp;Cuckoo Birds&nbsp;is a contemporary theatrical experiment exploring the search for serenity in our often mad and brutal modern world.&nbsp;

This bold new work marks an exciting collaboration with leading Malaysian arts collective Five A

Cuckoo Birds (2009)

In Search of Wonderland brings home closer to our hearts as it plays on the absurdity of familial ties and our attitudes towards those whom we love. Through its subtlety, it offers a reflection into familial relationships and through its escape into wonderland, this absurd play will, hopefully, pull us closer to the reality of our homes and bring families closer together.


In Search of Wonderland (2009)

Graphics Designer

The elusive Flower continues to speak with a voice quiet and persistent. Like a ghost gently moving her voice never ceasing.&nbsp;

Destinies of Flowers in the Mirror&nbsp;is the story of one pilgrim bearing the burden of her belief, venturing boldly onward to claim her destiny.&nbsp;


Destinies of Flowers in the Mirror (2009)

Zaki Ahmad and Tini live in a Garden. In the Garden, they make friends of neighbours and neighbours of friends. In the Garden, they play, they laugh, the compete, they fight. In the Garden, there is a Master with promises of Secrets sand a Crown. In the Garden, they learn, they unlearn, they re-learn: Who is the Master and how? Analysing the rhythms of modern life, Suap ponders the questions: Where do our daily cycles and circles lead us? What lies in the void of the silence we reject?? A multi-disciplinary

Suap (2009)

Graphic Designer

Flare&nbsp;presents a tapestry of characters whose lives are disrupted by the strange appearance of horses. These horses stalk them in the streets, show up in their living rooms and become at once a mesmerising and ominous presence.

In the wake of recurring tremors and in the face of these strange creatures, each character must come face to face with mortality.&nbsp;

This collaboration between The Finger Players and Cake Theatrical Productions is an original dramatic work that draws from each company'

Flare (2008)

Actor

Prop Maker

T:>Works (TheatreWorks)

Deep in the heart of MacRitchie Reservoir lie the ruins of the Syonan Jinja, a Shinto shrine built during the Japanese occupation of Singapore. Envisioned first as a spiritual and recreational centre for the future empire, then built by Australian POWs and Japanese craftsmen, today it exists only as stone relics and fragments, swallowed up by the thick tropical rainforest.As young artists, we have embarked on a journey of discovery to reclaim this forgotten monument. Its very existence is intriguing – a bea

Reservoir (2008)

Props

Collaterals

Temple sees the invention of a mythological universe&nbsp;where all the quarters of the world are at odds. A sports&nbsp;hall, once the diplomatic meeting arena of the now&nbsp;opposing sides, stands desolate.

Seven people, assailed, stand at the entrance of the great&nbsp;hall. Quickly, they enter and bolt the doors. Some nights&nbsp;they hear pounding on the doors but they keep very&nbsp;still and do nothing. Within the inner sanctum, they create their own rules, find their own order. Above all,&nbsp;t

Temple (2008)

Props Designer

Props Maker

spell#7

In 1959, artist Chua Mia Tee painted a group of Chinese students learning Malay. Today, the painting is called 'National Language Class'. In their critically acclaimed play inspired by the painting, spell#7 revisit this vision of a future that never happened, and asks: how good is your national language?

Starting out as a language lesson with the audience, National Language Class stages multiple versions of Chua's iconic painting in a bid to get to grips with history, and resolve simmering tensions betwe

National Language Class (2008)

Illustrator

SimplyWorks

The Enchantment of Sangkuriang (2008)

y grec&nbsp;is a book of poems by Madeleine Lee and Eleanor Wong. It comprises two voices, each with a different take on the same scenes, sounds, sights, people and myths of Greece. In a new offering by Cake Theatrical Productions,&nbsp;y grec&nbsp;is presented as a performance of literature, weaving together poetry, installation and sound architecture to unfold an invigorating new way of encountering spoken literature.&nbsp;


y grec (2007)

Sebuah bayangan murung menyelimuti bandar, apabila Perata, dengan bantuan ciptaan terbarunya, mengerjakan jenayah terbesar abad ini:

Pencurian Bahasa.

Seluruh bandar mengalami kegenjotan berkomunikasi sedang penduduk-penduduknya&nbsp;kehilangan keupayaan untuk berbahasa.

Ketiga-tiga perwire kami; Mat Smart, Mat Kental dan Mat Bunga, menerjah untuk&nbsp;menyelamatkan mangsa-mangsa yang kekeluan.&nbsp;Namun, dalam usaha mereka yang murni ini, mereka harus menempuh pelbagai misteri penuh dengan cabara

Mat Champion (2007)

Buka pintu buka pintuBudge
Ada anjing gonggong beta heh!
Buka pintu buka pintu
Ada hujan beta basah heh!

Buka pintu buka pintu heh!
Ada anjing gonggong beta heh!
Buka pintu beta mahu masuk heh!

There goes the song of the 50's and how it still reverberates today.&nbsp;Festival Pintu&nbsp;is a play that celebrates anything and everything that is associated with the notion of a door. To a white-collar executive a door is opportunity that goes unnoticed as he goes through the banality of routine life

Pintu (2006)

A young handsome king meets a beautiful mysterious young woman. They instantly fall in love. However, she agrees to marry him only if he asks no questions - about her history. After much merry-making, they have a child. When he is pressed by 'society', he has no choice but to question her. Snap. Double snap. And she's gone.&nbsp;

Divine Soap&nbsp;presents the story of a&nbsp;Bangsawan,&nbsp;as it was told in the past. It also sheds light on the trials and tribulations faced by these troupes as they strug

Divine Soap (2006)

Singapore Repertory Theatre

The Little Company

Herr Von Cuckoo (the cuckoo in the cuckoo clock), Salt and Pepper live on a kitchen dresser. On the shelf inside the teapot resides The old Bag, an elderly, short-tempered tea bag who keeps to herself. Herr Von Cuckoo's sore throat is spoiling his "cuckoos" and he needs to recover his voice quickly before he lands up in the dustbin. The Gingerbread man, freshly baked by the Big Ones, decides to help Herr Von Cuckoo by asking The Old Bag for her herbal remedy. He has to overcome the nasty temper of The Old b

The Gingerbread Man (2006)

The Theatre Practice

Playing. Playfulness. Games. These are almost lost to us in the frenetic automation of our daily lives. Work has become such a representation of adulthood and responsibility that the idea of playing has become synonymous with childishness and a waste of time.&nbsp;Play Play&nbsp;is about re-discovering the freedom within ourselves to play, and about finding how to see everything around us as a game: not to win, but to enjoy every moment of it, not to succeed, but to discover the infinite possibilities.

P

Play Play (2006)

The story of sita as told by she&nbsp;unravels the lives of three different women who found themselves in three different tight circumstances; To let live or not to let live? To stay or not to stay? To be silent or to not be silent? The images of stereotypical Malay women are destroyed as we delve into their lives and be immersed in the forces that influence their life-changing decisions.&nbsp;

Three different women with nothing in common find themselves existing in the same space to make their decisions

Cerita si sita oleh dia... (2006)

A fable/parable told through the eyes of Fatimah, a nine year old with a single-parent family. Fatimah travels on a kiddie ride, a lion she has named Mr Minismen and meets people who are representative sections of Singapore society. Eg. The maid, the prosperous wife, the religious man, the taxi driver, the tireless yuppie.&nbsp;

How did the cat get so fat?&nbsp;seeks to examine how the national pledge applies to and manifests itself in various strata in Singapore society, seen through the eyes of a young

Bagaimana Kucing Jadi Gemuk? (2006)

3 Women on a Jetty&nbsp;is an intertwining trilogy in which the trinity ponders on the trigonometrical effects of their loveless lives, their sexual fantasies and their greatest ambitions while coming to terms with womanhood.&nbsp;

The play attempts to capture some of the fears and excitement of entering the third decade in life. What does it really mean to arrive at such a point? Is the infamous thirty really just a number like the positive ones deem it to be? What does it mean for the educated unmarrie

Tiga Wanita Atas Jeti (2006)

"Dah pukul berapi ni? Bas belum sampai-sampai lagi! Aku dah lambat!"&nbsp;

Penantian memang suatu penyiksaan. Mereka menantikan bas yang masih belum muncul.&nbsp;

Kisah bagimana lima manusia dari berlainan latarbelakang ditemukan di sebuah tempat perhentian bas. Mereka mula menyedari bahawa pengalaman hidup mereka ada kaitannya sesama mereka. Tanpa mereka ketahui juga, pertemuan mereka juga merupakan yang terakhir yang akan berkesudahan dengana trajedi. Mampukah mereka mengubah hidup mereka dan mengel

Oasisteria (2005)

In this interpretation of the text, the figure of Admiral Zheng He, both icon and iconoclast, undergoes further interrogation. Importing their own cultural background as Singaporean Malays into the work, the artists involved will seek the spaces in the text which will allow them to question their own hybrid and syncretic identities. Various composite layers will be added to Kuo's already rich and multifarious text, which will include parallel texts from Malay historical documents, as well as extensions of v

Keturunan Laksamana Tak Ada Anu (2003)

Have you ever wondered why our kind likes to play? At times the serious is trivialised. Often the tragic is caused by too much play. Can you deny that you have never played around?

But there is nothing wrong with playing. If we do not, how will we ever learn if something is pleasurable or otherwise? Whether it is achievable or meant to fail? If not for play, a lot of people will not be doing what they love doing now. Such as singing, teaching, trading and many more... a lot of people began with play!



main² (2002)

Intergalaktika menjanjikan satu pengembaraan yang menarik dan menawan, buat yang muda baik pun yang dewasa. Berpusat pada&nbsp;tema pemuliharan bumi, Intergalaktika menyusuri perjalanan sekumpulan kanak-kanak yang terdampar di sebuah planet yang dahulunya pemah digunakan sebagai tempat pembuangan sampah. Terpisah dari ibu bapa mereka, kanak-kanak ini mempelajari unsur daya cipta dan berdikari, menjalani satu sistem hidup tanpa bimbingan golongan dewasa. Kemuncak pengembaraan kanak- kanak ini ialah apabila m

Intergalaktika (2002)

A collaboration across the Straits, Teater Ekamatra and The Actors Studio explore and articulate the issues on both sides of the Causeway. Separation, integration, alienation, kinship, hurt and reconciliation are unsparingly scrutinised in this script written by award-winning Singaporean playwright Alfian Sa'at. Be prepared for a daring interpretation fused with sensitivity and cutting insight.&nbsp;

Two motifs recur throughout the episodic play, blood and the bird. Two seemingly discordant chords locked

Causeway (2002)

Conceptualized by Alfian Sa'at,&nbsp;Kampung 2000&nbsp;is a 4-day theatre-arts festival featuring short&nbsp;performances and videos by Abdul Nizam Abdul Hamid Khan,&nbsp;Anuar Mohd,&nbsp;Alfian Sa‘at, Juliana Yasin, Khairul Lizan Ahmad Jirony, Mohd&nbsp;Fared Jainal, Nazrin &amp; Nurhidayana,&nbsp;Jamal &amp; Nazrin, and Tiga Dara.

The performances and videos will be performed in various locations at The Substation;&nbsp;such as the Garden, the classrooms, the rooftop,&nbsp;the gallery and the alley bet

Kampung 2000

Art Director

This morning
I found her sleeping
On my husband's bed.

My husband, of course,
Had gone to work
And the sun was falling

On her face. She pulled
The curtains I bought
For Hari Raya closer

With that hand that
Could not be softer
Than my own. The room

Grew dark orange.
I realised I was peeping
Into my own bedroom.

On Hari Raya
After kissing
My husband's hand

I had to kneel
And kiss hers too
With the rings

That she had bought&nbsp;
- the diamonds -
For cutting my lips.

And

Madu II (2001)

Lighting Operator

Everybody heard that pause
in the middle of the azan
when the imam tried
to recover his voice.&nbsp;

It was easy to imagine
cocks crooning mournful,
cats becoming more affectionate,
trees throwing their shadows
at earlier hours,&nbsp;
lost birds, a new map in the sky -&nbsp;

as if everything knew.

One last look
as rooms reclaimed their echoes:

What is there
to look forward to
but nostalgia?

On the last evening in the last kampung
a mother rocked her baby
in the embryo of its buai

Anak Bulan Di Kampung Wa' Hassan (2001)

Set in an old folk's home on National Day,&nbsp;Merdeka!&nbsp;looks into the lives of three old souls as they sit out their long evenings in front of the television. In the euphoria of gun salutes and fireworks, national songs and mass displays, Salleh, Jamilah and Sgt Badir reminisced about their painful youths, lost loves and the meaning of independence.

Intersperse with scenes of the doomed relationship between a mismatched couple,&nbsp;Merdeka!&nbsp;juxtaposes events from the past and present, from t

Merdeka! (1999)

Stage Manager

cerita ini berlaku di desa bernama semerah padi semasa agama islam mula bertapak di kepulauan tanah melayu. dara, anak seorang&nbsp;penghulu kampung yang taat kepada agama, telah ditunangkan dengan taruna sedangkan dia mencintai aduka. cinta tiga segi ini telah melahirkan ketegangan di antara dua sahabat karib. segala pergolakan yang berlaku dilihat dari pandangan borek, watak antagonis yang menyimpan dendam terhadap penduduk semerah padi kerana telah menyula adiknya yang telah melakukan zina.


Semerah Padi (1999)

Co-Director

Choreographer

Costume Conceptualist

In poetry, drama and music, Thamar tells the story of "Dewa Satria" a celestial being and "Nada" a mortal woman and their love for each other. Both are depicted at various stages in this play as the lover and the beloved in the garden of Eden.

Finally after this attractions, estrangement, longing and the help from a female confidant, in poetry that reaches perfection, we are told of their unification, her human love has become divine and the divinity has spiritualized human love.

This outdoor theatre 

Thamar (1998)

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A night-hour safehouse for the troubled youths, dropouts, runaways and delinquents of the Malay community is run by a pair of ex-offenders. When external intervention looms, it will take their collective efforts to keep the walls of their home up. Or will they come tumbling down?

Written and directed by Nessa Anwar, Rumah Dayak is an unflinching look at the struggle to guard a home built out of circumstances surrounding poverty, deprivation and abuse. Rumah Dayak is the inaugural production by new collec

Rumah Dayak by Nessa Anwar

Dark Room&nbsp;follows the lives of men housed together in a five-by-five-metre cell, 23 hours a day, every day, until their release. This original work, based on true accounts, explores the codes and regulations of society “on the inside”. It charts the prison experience from pre-trial to imprisonment, and the reintegration into society as “returning citizens”.

If “prison is the punishment that keeps on taking”,&nbsp;Dark Room&nbsp;gives voice to the incarcerated by staging their stories and making thei

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