Rumah Dayak by Nessa Anwar

Start date of Residency
September 2019
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September 2019
September - November 2019

Synopsis

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 collective Rupa co.lab, which comprises Hazwan Norly, Nabilah Said and Nessa Anwar.

Performed in Malay and English, with English surtitles.

Rumah Dayak was developed under Centre 42's Basement Workshop (now known as the Creation Residency). Read about Basement Workshop here.


Development Milestones

September - November 2019
In-Residence at Basement Workshop
by Centre 42

1st Phase (July 2019)

Rumah Dayak was presented as a full-length dramatised-read at Centre 42’s Guest Room on 6 July 2019. A post-presentation feedback session was facilitated by Nabilah Said. Feedback gathered at this by-invite presentation will provide Nessa with additional information to further develop the play.

21 – 24 November 2019
Full staging at Malay Heritage Centre Auditorium

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Production Information

 


Profiles

Nessa Anwar
Playwright, Director
Nabilah Said
Producer
Hazwan Norly
Marketing Manager