Reading-Presentation Details:
6 July 2019, Saturday
3pm – 6pm
Black Box @ Centre 42
(by invitation only)
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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 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.
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.
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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
