Persembahan Kami
Yang Akan Di Perilhamkan
4 - 20 April, 1996
Galeriwan, Kuala Lumpur
No, not ornate antique chairs or even priceless collectibles. Just simple, ordinary 'chairs'. Suspended from the ceiling, in sets, in isolation. Basically wood and basically old. But 'chairs'.
An event designed to encourage the audience to take a closer look at 'chairs' and to examine what happens within and around the auspices of a 'chair'.
Performance Information
Dates 16 - 19 May, 1996
Time 8:30pm
Venue The British Council Hall, Bukit Aman
Tickets
RM20 per person.
RM10 Matinee show, 19 May at 3pm
Supreme Music Centre 757 5848
Horizon Music Centre 274 6778
Skoob Books 284 2686
The Actor's Studio 294 5400
Reunion - A musical play (March 1996)
A musical written by Chin San Sooi with music by Johan Othman, that tells the story of the Khoo family from Parit Buntar. The story is narrated by the family servant and takes place on Chinese New Year's Eve, the night for the traditional family reunion. During the Tea Ceremony, the family receives a telegram, tragedy strikes. In the face of adversity, strength is found in the family unit.An Evening of Dance (April 1996)
Featuring dance performances by
Aida Redza The Story Of Lotus Flower Dancing On Water
... maps a pilgrimage that encounters and unites all differences, creating a meeting point where all can exist in complete harmony and equality, undeterred by questions of pure or impure.
Mew Chang Tsing A Journey With Li Yu
Inspired by Emperor Li Yu's poem. His conflicting life was taken as an analogy for the conflict Mew Chang Tsin faced in finding a balance between her Asian dance and Western concepts and methods of constructing dance pieces.
Lee Swee Keong The Last Supper
Awakening the inner soul, helping it to regain calm and composure, exchanging blind disillusionment for a lesson well learned.
Suhaimi Magi Aku Adalah Dia (I Am The Other)
He and I are different but similar. We unite in a unity that makes us one. We unite in everything. He and I. He and I will always be one.
For the month of May, Concorde Hotel in collaboration with Five Arts Centre and DramaLab will present selected monologues from DramaLab's Writers' Workshop at Spices' dinner theatre.
Featuring monologues by
Rahel Joseph Solo
A superb piece drawing from a kaleidoscope of acting, dancing and music. It illuminates the feelings and thoughts of a woman as she prepares for her debut solo dance performance, delving into the conflict between traditional values and our own inner needs and desires.
Mira Mustaffa Hero
Based on a true incident of an old man wiping up a spill. This quiet, beautifully paced monologue's power is in the choices the viewer must make, and the relationship one develops with the 'hero'.
Bernice Chauly Interview With A Prostitute
This uncompromising monologue adapted from a journalistic interview with a prostitute looks into the life of a sex worker in Chow Kit. At times fierce, funny, sad, ironic but always touching and empowered.
Tim Evans Carlsberg Conversation
Inspired by the writer's five years in Malaysia, this funny and moving monologue celebrates observations, friends, Carlsberg, Telecom and Antony Burgess. It brilliantly captures the experiences of the "mat salleh" - the belonging and the outsider, the love, passion, hate and loneliness.
Performance information
Dates 3,4,10,11,17,18,24,25 May 1996.
Venue Spices Restaurant, Concorde Hotel
Time Dinner is served from 7.00pm - 9.00pm. While performances commence at 9.15pm.
Tickets
Jointly sponsored by Carlsberg Marketing.
RM90.00++ per person inclusive of a set dinner
RM45.00++ per person cover charge, inclusive of one drink
For reservations please call 244 2200 ext2335 or 244 3682
Rama & Sita : Generasi Baru
As part of the KL Arts Festival 1996, Five Arts Centre in collaboration with DramaLab is proud to present Rama & Sita - Generasi Baru (The New Generation) - a Malaysian adaptation of the Ramayana by the young people of Teater Muda, Five Arts Centre.
The young actors will give their own contemporary Malaysian interpretation of the issues and concerns found in the classic tale of Rama & sita as contained in the Ramayana. They will create their own lines and script their own words, promising a highly original adaptation.
"A wonderful story of love and envy, of kidnap and rescue, of monsters and magic, of good and evil. A timeless tale of our needs, our wants, our fantasies and our realities."
Performance Information
Dates 4 - 6 July 1996
Time 8.30pm
Tickets RM30 and RM20
Dates 1 - 3 July & 7 - 9 July 1996
Time 3.00pm
Tickets RM10 (students only) and RM20 (adults)
Tickets
Supreme Music Centre 757 5848
Horizon Music Centre 274 6778
Skoob Books 284 2686
Block Booking for schools:
The British Council 298 7555 Ext21
Dance Tonpu (Dance of the Eastern Breeze) is part of the KL Arts Festival 1996 and is jointly presented by Five Arts Centre, Akademi Seni Kebangsaan and Japan Cultural Centre.
Dance Tonpu aims to create a unique collaborative work in dance and theatre which transcends national boundaries. At the invitation of Keiko Takeya of the Keiko Takeya Contemporary Dance Company in Japan, Marion D'Cruz of Five Arts Centre and four other Malaysian artists are now in Japan working with five of their Japanese counterparts.
The project will bring together artists from different disciplines to work towards a single project. Each charged with overcoming cultural and language barriers in their quest to find common themes and issues and hence produce a performance of international standard.
A Solo Exhibition By Wong Hoy Cheong
"I grew up listening to stories. Stories told by my father and mother, grandmothers, aunties and uncles.They were stories of remembrance layered with wonder and pain, conflict and reconciliation, mystery and miracle.
"My drawings take these stories, rich with images as a starting point. I am intersted in how the histories of people are made; how the individual 'I' becomes the collective 'I' and the easily forgotten dreams of one person become the dreams of a people....
"But most of all, I am moved by the tenacity of the human spirit - the refusal to stand back against sickness, poverty and oppression."
The Exhibition
...looks at the issues of migrants and the history of rubber in Malaysia. It will include a series of 5 large drawings and about 20 studies which use the artist's family history as a spring-board to exploring themes of migration, the clash and merging of social classes, cultures and histories.
An installation in the form of a historical and sociological 'diorama' telling the history of rubber and migrants will allow the audience to walk along passages that reveal the tale of time. There will also be a series of about 12 black and white portraits of migrants displayed together with oral histories of new migrant labour, alongside a selected exhibition of paintings by other artists on the theme of migration.
Exhibition Information
Dates 12 - 28 August 1996
Venue Creative Centre, National Art Gallery, KL
Teater Pendidikan (Educational Theatre)
A collaboration with an Australian facilitator for theatre in schools.
Window
A play by Leow Puay Tin
