Mereka menzahirkan pembawaan penulisan Syed Alwi tentang sikap melayu itu sendiri. Membawa ke setiap ruang tentang sikap melayu yang kalau jelek dipandang, maka jelek yang patut dihadam.

Teater Yeop: Tribute To Syed Alwi bermula dari luar pintu. Aksi Tok Perak menjual ayat dan ubat membuatkan khalayak sudah berada dalam semangat pentas sejak dari awal. Melangkah masuk ke rumah di alamat Pentas 2, KLPAC, penonton bukan sahaja menyaksikan tetapi juga menjadi tetamu istimewa pembawa acara atau tuan rumah bertujuh kaitan. Berinteraktif dan menghiburkan dengan cara tersendiri, barisan nama hebat dalam tanah teater tempatan iaitu Nadia Aqilah, Taiyuddin Bakar, Amar [...]

Dato’ Syed Alwi is known for his contribution to the development of the local theatre scene as a writer, producer and director in a career that has spanned since the early 1950’s. Tampakdara and The Actors Studio Seni Teater Rakyat will be presenting three of his written works with Teater YEOP: A Tribute to Dato’ Syed Alwi from 27th to 30th December in Pentas 2, klpac. 

Tragicomedy of Errors was staged last week at Pentas 1, klpac, and presented by Pentas Project. Seeing the title, I was expecting an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors, but that was not entirely the case. Tragicomedy of Errors was more of a restaging of a 1986 play titled “Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land”, written by a renown Taiwanese playwright-director, Stan Lai. While the bard’s play involves the switching of two sets of twins, Tragicomedy of Errors centers around two groups of theatre production that have to share a stage because of a booking error. This somewhat similar concept, in addition to the play’s slapstick, puns and word play, [...]

The solution may just be to take cross-cultural representation to a whole new stage.