Co-presented by Pentas Project Theatre Production + The Instants Cafe Theatre Company + Alternative Stage
Break-ing /击破(ji po)/Ka Si Pe Cah
Pentas Theatre Collaboration Project
"These three pieces, as a whole, have challenged us not only in our thinking about language, but also in our thinking beyond language." --Kakiseni.com
"Beatiful and elliptical... exuberant... ...Dramatists across the Causeway explore issues of language, politics and identity with mostly beautiful and hilarious results." by Adeline Chia, Singapore
"...each director ...succeeds in delivering something resonant, relevant and powerful.,,, a remarkable evening, displaying the vibrant diversity of the KL theatre scene" -- The Flying Inkspot, Singapore.
Pentas Theatre Collaboration Project is a platform of interaction within different cultures and realms and encourages diversities and possibilities in theatre arts and theatre language.
A collaboration based on the theme of LANGUAGE, was between three Malaysian theatre company, Pentas Project Theatre Production, The Instants Cafe Theatre Company and The Alternative Stage. Premiered in 2006 in Kuala Lumpur, it went on its international tour to Japan and Singapore in 2008. Now we are back in KL.
A triple-bill of plays --
Silence, please
3 women deal with the death of their mother, two men create a work of art and someone has something to say about what is not being said...
"Silence, please works beautifully with its oblique, sophisticated approach to contemporary theatre; five actors move in a combination of naturalistic and abstract movements as a brilliantly performed English-language voiceover describe a Hindu family's experience og their mother's death. Poetic, moving, and politically resonant too-splendid." - Fying Inspot Singapore.
Repot [ Mind+Mine ]
This is a formal yet informal report. Repot[Mind+Mine] humorously explores the situations and irony in the Malaysian lingo. If they could go back in time, if they walk into the world of P.Ramlee, if they tell you and me - Language is only a strange kind of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...
"Features a madcap series of scenes where four Chinese-language actors re-enact the interrogation of language; they mimic own monologues and movements as pre-recorded video of their improvisation plays in the background, then re-enact interview with a range of mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien and Hakka-speaking citizens; then there's the P.Ramlee movie... Coming after a piece about silence, this piece is instead about noise, language as noise, politics as noise, performance as noise, noise that is glorious, chaotic and alive... hilarious" Flying Inkspot Singapore.
WIP
In an unknown space, a blindfolded man tries desperately to connect with another man in a futile attempt to avoid death. He asks to share a cigarette, tries to find out his his gaoler's name and then finds himself beginning to share his hopes and dreams...
"The production wisely chose to end with Nam Ron's piece, which explores the ultimate reaching and yearning that is sometimes thwarted by language. The blindfolded victim wants to know his assassin's name. What's in a name? Was he appealing to a host of other memories and associations that the assassin had about himself, to his own humanity? And does the violence in this pieces say something about what happens when language is just not enough to express onself, anymore?" Kakiseni.com
Directors : Jo Kukathas, Loh Kok Man & Nam Ron
Casts : Anitha Abdul Hamid, Anne James, Chen Huen Phuei, Gan Hui Yee, Kiea Kuan Nam, Lee Swee Keong, Ayam Fared, Moo Siew Keh, Thiagu, Tin Tan Chai Chen, Sukania Venugopal, Where
Set Design : Caecar Chong & Teoh Shaw Gie
Music Composer & Sound Design : Ng Chor Guan
Lighting Design : Loh Kok Man
Multimedia : Au Sow Yee
Stage Manager : Jason Lai
venue:
Date & Time :
25th ~ 28th September 2008
8:30pm (wednesday to sunday)
3:00pm (sunday)
Ticket:
RM47 (Adult) RM27(Students, Disable & Senior Citizens)
10% discount for Astro subscribers
PREVIEW 24TH September 2008 @ 8:30pm / RM 27 Only
Box Office: (KLpac) 4047 900 (TASB) 2094 0400
More info:
info@pentasproject.com / info:instantscafetheatre.com
Supported by : HSBC in the arts / ASTRO / Colorganda!
Reviews :
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BREAK-ING 擊破 KA SI PE CAH
平台劇場合作交流計劃
呈現單位
平台計劃＋The Instant Cafe Theatre Company＋The Alternative Stage
日期：
２００８年９月２４日至２８日 ＠８：３０pm
２００８年９月２８日＠３：００pm
票價：RM47（成人） RM27 （學生、殘障與樂齡人士）
預演２００８年９月２４日（票價一律 RM 27）
票務：(KLPac) 4047 9000
電郵： pentasproject@gmail.com
導演：羅國文／Jo Kukathas／Nam Ron
演員：
Anne James／丘冠南／Anitha Abdul Hamid／李瑞強／Sukania Venugopal／R Thiagarajan／顏果／曾宏輝／陳彩珍／Where／Ayam／巫紹棋
舞台設計：張忠勇 燈光設計：羅國文 音樂與音效設計：黃楚原
影像設計：區琇詒 平面設計：Colorganda! 舞台監督：黎百齡
馬來西亞的社會環境包括劇場領域本身，語言往往構築了種族之間的一個隱約的界線，為了試圖打破這一界線，于２００６年，平台計劃聚合了本地知名英文劇團 The Instant Cafe Theatre Company 以及馬來劇團 The Alternative Stage，以語言為課題進行一項名為“擊破：平台劇場合作交流計劃“的劇場交流活動。三位來自于不同文化源流，並在國際間得到認可的著名劇場導演﹣﹣羅國文、Jo Kukathas 和 Nam Ron，再結合本地各藝術領域的創作者，如張忠勇、趙少傑和區琇詒，攜手合作為觀眾在國家語文出版局的小劇場帶來一次精彩而深刻的演出。
“擊破：平台劇場合作交流計劃“結合了三個單元，（一）請，安靜、（二）【思想＋自分】報告、（三）WIP，演出運用戲劇、視覺以及聲音元素，以或詩意，或幽默，或批叛的手法探索“語言“在馬來西亞的位置和困境，為不同文化與藝術領域提供了一個交流的舞台。“擊破：平台劇場合作交流計劃“引起了頗為熱烈的回響，更於次年獲得第五屆金馬侖藝術獎的７項提名。
本的著名藝術網站 Kakiseni.com 曾評論「擊破：平台劇場合作交流計劃，不僅挑戰觀眾對語言的既定想法，也挑戰了我們對于語言課題以外的思考。」“擊破：平台劇場合作交流計劃“于２００８年２月和４月間應邀前往日本和新加坡作巡回，當時還邀請了年輕作曲家黃楚原為演出作全新配樂、再結合經驗豐富的演員陣容，如Anne James、 Sukania Venugopal、顏果、陳彩珍、李瑞強、曾宏輝、巫紹棋等人。這群源自不同文化和語言背景的演員們，既將於２００８年９月２５日至２８日晚上８點３０分，在吉隆坡表演藝術中心(KLPac), Pentas 2小劇場再次粉墨登場。
贊助單位：
HSBC in the arts
ASTRO
Colorganda!
15 oct 2008/sold out
