Another Country

I went to Damansara Performing Arts Centre (DPAC) to watch a play which produced by W!LD RICE Production, the title is Another Country. It's the first time I watch a professional theatrical drama performance because I miss my chance to watch the Naruto Live stage performance  last month, sad~  :'( . Another Country is directed by Jo Kukathas & Ivan Heng, curated by Leow Puay Tin & Alfin Sa'at. It's telling the history of Malaysia and Singapore from the 19th century until recent years by using many short stories.

There are two parts of this performance, which are the Singapore part and the Malaysian part. The Singaporean's actors are doing the Malaysia's part which they let the audiences to draw for the sequences of the stories that they will perform, while the Malaysian's actor are doing the Singapore's part which they following the chronological order. I think that all the performers  or actors are very professional, they're very rich with face expressions.  

Most of the stories I not really know what they are trying to tell because my history is not that good , but there are one of the Singapore part which catch my attention is the story of a woman is finding her cat. There are a old Chinese man who only speak Hokkien and a old Indian lady who only speak Tamil noth are looking for their own cat. Although they both speak different language but they use their body language to make one other to understand it. I'm a Hokkien and I also took Tamil until level 2 so i quite understand what they both are talking about. Hahahahahah . 

What surprise me most in this performance is when the Malaysia team they took off their pants. I thought this is an Islamic country and they will be more careful about the Aurat issue, because there are also Malay's performers. That's why Dr.Carmen told us in the class that they sure 'Koyak' is the perform at the Malaysia largest performing theater.

I think the performance is worth to watch for me because it's new thing to me and I learned a lots from there. That's all from me for this week ~ :D