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Kebaya Homies

Welcome to the club! Make yourself at home, but this is not your house. Don't forget to tip us! We are your perempuan-perempuan joget (dancing girls) Zubaidah and Rukiah. Do you like our kebaya? Come to our club and we will share with you our stories and songs. Our show is not like other shows. This is a time travel show. We will bring you to the past—during the heyday of the 1960s—and to the future. You want to dance? Later we can dance. First, sit down. And enjoy the ride.

Directed by Alvin Tan, and performed by Aidli Mosbit and Siti Khalijah Zainal, Kebaya Homies is a delightful musical romp weaving through Malay history and culture, told through the elegant yet coy kebaya. The script by Haresh Sharma also includes scenes from his past plays written for the actors.

Kebaya Homies was performed
at Esplanade Annexe Studio on
15 – 18 January 2020, 8.00pm
18 – 19 January 2020, 3.00pm

 

PRODUCTION CREDITS

 

Creative Team 

Written by
Haresh Sharma

Directed by
Alvin Tan

Performed by 
Aidli Mosbit 
Siti Khalijah Zainal

Dancers: 
Fathurrahman bin Said 
Adiesufian bin Mohamed
Hamzah bin A Rahim 
Ramlan bin Rasidi
Rizman bin Kassim 

Wardrobe/Stylist for Dancers:
Muhammad Norfiqin Bin Mohd Hisham 

Make-up Artist for Cast:
Haslina Ismail

Scenographer:
Petrina Dawn Tan 

Multimedia Artist:
Brian Gothong Tan

Music Selector & Live DJ:
Ridhwan Ghany AKA Ras Irie

Translator: 
Aidli Mosbit

 

Production Team

Production Stage Manager:
Elnie Mashari

Assistant Stage Manager:
Muhammad Noh Sapari

Crew/Interns:
Jolyn Agnes Chua
Siti Nursyahidah Bte Norman

Project Manager: 
Natasha Fathin

 

Special Thanks

Ghafir Akbar
Rizman Putra
Family of the late Ibu Siti Ramlah Mansyur
2020
 -
Singapore
 

Productions

Kebaya Homies

Welcome to the club! Make yourself at home, but this is not your house. Don't forget to tip us! We are your perempuan-perempuan joget (dancing girls) Zubaidah and Rukiah. Do you like our kebaya? Come to our club and we will share with you our stories and songs. Our show is not like other shows. This is a time travel show. We will bring you to the past—during the heyday of the 1960s—and to the future. You want to dance? Later we can dance. First, sit down. And enjoy the ride.

Directed by Alvin Tan, and performed by Aidli Mosbit and Siti Khalijah Zainal, Kebaya Homies is a delightful musical romp weaving through Malay history and culture, told through the elegant yet coy kebaya. The script by Haresh Sharma also includes scenes from his past plays written for the actors.

Special Thanks

Ghafir Akbar
Rizman Putra
Family of the late Ibu Siti Ramlah Mansyur
2020
 -
Singapore

Productions

Koan


"I left in the morning, with a bottle of water, in search of her."

So begins a woman's journey--a journey filled with chance encounters, strange visions and transient connections. In the course of the woman's search, she encounters various characters from her past--the old matchstick man, the young girl, the boatman and the angel.

As day turns into night, as her water bottle slowly becomes empty, the woman is forced to confront her journey: "When soemone is searching, the only thing your eyes see is what you search for", the girl tells her. "You must stop searching and start finding."

Can her search ever end?

Acclaimed playwright Haresh Sharma has drawn inspiration from Hesse's Siddhartha, Gibran's The Prophet and other stories of journey and search to create a new writing for the theatre.

Employing techniques of storytelling, magic realism and narrative framing, Koan is a theatrical and lyrical exploration of perspective and truth.

The production, helmed by visionary director Alvin Tan, also features interview footages with a 78 year-old Singaporean widow who talks about her husband, son and herself growing up in Singapore.

Koan has toured to the 2003 Asian Theatre Festival in Busan (Korea) and Next Wave 2003 Festival (Seoul, Korea)
2004
 -
Singapore

Staging

Koan

Drawing inspiration from Hesse's Siddhartha, Gibran's The Prophet and other stories of journey and search, Haresh Sharma employs techniques of storytelling, magic realism and narrative framing to create a theatrical and lyrical exploration of perspective and truth. the production also features interview footages with a 78-year-old Singaporean widow who talks about her husband, her son and herself growing up in Singapore.
2003
 -
South Korea

Productions

Koan

Drawing inspiration from Hesse's Siddhartha, Gibran's The Prophet and other stories of journey and search, Haresh Sharma employs techniques of storytelling, magic realism and narrative framing to create a theatrical and lyrical exploration of perspective and truth. the production also features interview footages with a 78-year-old Singaporean widow who talks about her husband, her son and herself growing up in Singapore.
2003
 -
South Korea

Staging

Koan

Drawing inspiration from Hesse's Siddhartha, Gibran's The Prophet and other stories of journey and search, Haresh Sharma employs techniques of storytelling, magic realism and narrative framing to create a theatrical and lyrical exploration of perspective and truth. the production also features interview footages with a 78-year-old Singaporean widow who talks about her husband, her son and herself growing up in Singapore.
2003
 -
South Korea

Productions

Koan

Drawing inspiration from Hesse's Siddhartha, Gibran's The Prophet and other stories of journey and search, Haresh Sharma employs techniques of storytelling, magic realism and narrative framing to create a theatrical and lyrical exploration of perspective and truth. the production also features interview footages with a 78-year-old Singaporean widow who talks about her husband, her son and herself growing up in Singapore.
2003
 -
South Korea
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