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 all of their collective efforts to keep the walls of their home up, or risk tearing them all down. Rumah Dayak is a look into the struggle to guard a home, when the home is built out of circumstances borne from poverty, deprivation and abuse.

Performed in Malay and English, with English surtitles.

Rumah Dayak was developed under Centre 42's Guest Room (now known as the New Scripts Residency). Read about Guest Room here.

Artist’s Statement/Inquiry

Rumah Dayak is Nessa Anwar’s second full-length play, aimed to be produced and staged independently. For this phase of the process, she would like to gather first thoughts and opinions from a respected mix of regular and non-theatre-going audience members at the read-presentation.

Creative Team

Playwright and Director: Nessa Anwar
Nessa’s most recent play Riders Tahu Time Nak Hujan (Riders Know When It’s Gonna Rain) was commissioned by Checkpoint Theatre for the Singapore Writer’s Festival 2015, and re-staged by Wild Rice for the Singapore Theatre Festival 2016. She is also one of the members of Main Tulis Group, Singapore’s first playwright circle.

Performers:
Al Matin Yatim
Farah Lola
Rusydina Afiqah
Tysha Khan
Riduan Wan Ahmad
Yamin Yusof
Saifuddin Jumadi
Alee Mazrin
Production Manager: Kaykay Nizam
Producer: Nabilah Said
Marketing Manager: Hazwan Norly
Presented by: Rupa Co.Lab