Gemuk Girls is the third play from TNS following 2006's Fundamentally Happy and last year's Good People that explores the fundamentals of text and of realism by scrutinising pressing issues that affect society today.
Gemuk Girls follows the seemingly normal lives of a mother, Kartini, and her daughter Juliana who, together make a very unlikely mother-daughter pair, one loud and overbearing, the other strait-laced and on the threshold of entering politics. Together, they are the Gemuk Girls and proud of it. Their whole world is taken for a spin when they receive shocking news about Kartini’s father who had been arrested and detained during the 1960s. From then on, the floodgates of the family’s emotional past are thrown open.
The play creates more questions than answers, causing us to probe into our own lives and create a connection between ourselves and the characters. Can a family truly survive as they struggle to reconcile the past with the present? Can the ghosts of the past affect the future?
As with other plays by The Necessary Stage, Gemuk Girls seeks to challenge audiences to re-examine the status quo and their preconceptions, and in doing so, presents possibilities for new interpretations and understanding.
After a sold out run in Singapore, The Necessary Stage’s (TNS) Gemuk Girls will be staged at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre’s (KLPac) Pentas 2, Jalan Strachan in Kuala Lumpur from today till Sunday. Showtime is 8.30pm (with weekend shows at 3pm).
The provocative new piece from the award-winning director-playwright pairing of Alvin Tan and Haresh Sharma follows the seemingly normal lives of a mother, Kartini, and her daughter Juliana who, together make a very unlikely mother-daughter pair – one loud and overbearing, the other straight-laced and on the threshold of entering politics. However, their whole world turns topsy-turvy after hearing shocking news about Kartini’s father.
Leading the cast are Aidi “Alin” Mosbit, Najib Soiman and Siti Khalijah.
Tickets are priced at RM35 (adults) and RM20 (students, seniors and the disabled).[and i just paid rm20 :) ]
kami ke KLpac pd 5 dis 2008. dr mmu melaka, naik bas. sampai di tol sg besi, oh jln jam giler! everybody in the bus resah taku x sempat tgk gemuk girls. alhamdulillah kami sampai tepat pd masanya tp aku x dpt duduk dgn kwn2 aku. ya klpac studio 2 was fulled.
it takes around 1 hour and a half, habis saja teather, ada Q&A session.
balik, kami yg mmg kuat bergambar ni mengambil kesempatan bergambar dgn the Gemuk Girls :)
but, the pictures will be uploaded later cause i've a lot of things to be done.
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theater ke...ingatkan movie td
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