The Actors Studio
with the support of/dengan sokongan
Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage/Kementerian Kebudayaan, Kesenian dan Warisan (KeKKWa)
present/mempersembahkan
GENE SHA RUDYN in the text written by/dalam karya tulisan
ALFIAN BIN SA’AT
“Anak Bulan Di Kampong Wa’ Hassan”
Director/Pengarah: Gene Sha Rudyn
Writer/Penulis: Alfian bin Sa'at
Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage/Kementerian Kebudayaan, Kesenian dan Warisan (KeKKWa)
present/mempersembahkan
GENE SHA RUDYN in the text written by/dalam karya tulisan
ALFIAN BIN SA’AT
“Anak Bulan Di Kampong Wa’ Hassan”
Director/Pengarah: Gene Sha Rudyn
Writer/Penulis: Alfian bin Sa'at
Cast/Pelakon: Gene Sha Rudyn
“Anak Bulan Di Kampong Wa' Hassan” tells the story of Kampong Wa’ Hassan, the last Malay kampung (village) to fall victim to Singapore's efforts at modernisation. Far from a nostalgia trip down memory lane to a romanticised Malay kampung, this is a journey of discovery of the true worth of a kampung, filled with real-life characters in all their rawness, and the true loss in the dispossession of it.
“If 'to know me is to love me', then the way for us to understand why Orang Kampung love the kampung is to get to know the kampung that they know.”
“If 'to know me is to love me', then the way for us to understand why Orang Kampung love the kampung is to get to know the kampung that they know.”
- Gene Sha Rudyn
“Anak Bulan Di Kampong Wa' Hassan” mengisahkan tentang Kampong Wa’ Hassan, kampung terakhir di Singapura yang menjadi mangsa dalam usaha Singapura mengejar kemajuan. Jauh berbeza daripada sebuah lamunan romantika tentang sebuah Kampung Melayu yang penuh nostalgia, malahan ianya merupakan satu penerokaan mengenali nilai sebenar sebuah kampung, yang padat dengan watak-watak nyata lagi asli, dan kehilangan sebenar dengan pemupusannya. “Kata pepatah ‘Tak kenal maka tak cinta’. Jadi, kalau kita nak faham kenapa orang kampung cinta sangat dengan kampung, kita kenalah mengenali kampung yang mereka kenal.”
“Anak Bulan Di Kampong Wa' Hassan” mengisahkan tentang Kampong Wa’ Hassan, kampung terakhir di Singapura yang menjadi mangsa dalam usaha Singapura mengejar kemajuan. Jauh berbeza daripada sebuah lamunan romantika tentang sebuah Kampung Melayu yang penuh nostalgia, malahan ianya merupakan satu penerokaan mengenali nilai sebenar sebuah kampung, yang padat dengan watak-watak nyata lagi asli, dan kehilangan sebenar dengan pemupusannya. “Kata pepatah ‘Tak kenal maka tak cinta’. Jadi, kalau kita nak faham kenapa orang kampung cinta sangat dengan kampung, kita kenalah mengenali kampung yang mereka kenal.”
- Gene Sha Rudyn
Dates & Time:
Wednesday / Rabu 6 June 2007 - Kampong Bekor, Manong, Kuala Kangsar, Perak
Saturday / Sabtu 9 June 2007 - Kampong Pulau Betong, Balik Pulau, Penang
Wednesday / Rabu 13 June 2007 - Kampong Jawa, Klang, Selangor
Sunday / Ahad 17 June 2007 - Sungai Karang Darat, Kuantan, Pahang
Wednesday / Rabu 20 June 2007 - Kampong Bukit Cina, Melaka
Saturday / Sabtu 23 June 2007 - Kampong Parit Haji Ali, Batu Pahat, Johor
ADMISSION IS FREE!
For more information, please contact:
Dates & Time:
Wednesday / Rabu 6 June 2007 - Kampong Bekor, Manong, Kuala Kangsar, Perak
Saturday / Sabtu 9 June 2007 - Kampong Pulau Betong, Balik Pulau, Penang
Wednesday / Rabu 13 June 2007 - Kampong Jawa, Klang, Selangor
Sunday / Ahad 17 June 2007 - Sungai Karang Darat, Kuantan, Pahang
Wednesday / Rabu 20 June 2007 - Kampong Bukit Cina, Melaka
Saturday / Sabtu 23 June 2007 - Kampong Parit Haji Ali, Batu Pahat, Johor
ADMISSION IS FREE!
For more information, please contact:
Lina 012-203 9198The Actors Studio @ BSC 03-2093 0400
The Actors Studio Greenhall Penang 04-263 5400
4 comments:
Alah sayangnya! I just notice this. Tak akan nak pergi batu pahat to see this.
I was reminded yesterday of Geylang Serai, the last Malay enclave in SIngapore.
Under the name of development, it is turned into a high density. It serves the purpose of diluting the local and son-of-soil last political space, with lots lightnings brought in.
This maybe an ole socialistic ideas, but I have stop trying to figure out what idea fits what ideology for I look at interest foremost and secondly assure it is consistent with principle. Why can't development benefit the original land owners?
Perhaps we should learn to understand and apply this too for Malaysia!
I too missed the performance at Kg Jawa, Klang, due to dealine for conference papers, etc.
Please don't remind me of Geylang Serai - it just makes my eyes water cos that's where most of my mother's relatives used to live before they were relocated to Bedok South, North, and elsewhere.
The last time I visited the Masjid Sultan in the 'Arab Quarter' of Singapore, I had a surreal experience when I stepped into the Istana Kg Gelam complex, where Asmah Laili, a famous radio dj, launched her cook book. I didn't realise how 'Malaysianised' I've become since the Singaporean Malays' style and lingo look and sound so 'quaint'.
On the issue of development, dispossession and dislocation, I can empathise with the Orang Aslis, especially those former land owners at Sg Penchala, now known as Damansara Perdana/Mutiara.
Perhaps you should catch 'Anak Bulan' at Batu Pahat after all!
QB..
I enjoy theatre and indie movies but sadly where I cari makan in Indo (Balikpapan, Kaltim) is not conducive to said pursuits..
So I was pleasantly surprised the other day when I came across a workshop, here in BPN, on playwriting and stagecraft given by an apparently quite famous local thespian - tak kenal laa, so a bit embarassing for me to intrude..
BB.. I live (well, my better half and children at least) in that MD/DP area you mentioned. The OAs were consulted and agreed to be compensated via ASB 50K/head and a modest single-storey bungalow (Desa Temuan) for each family. I think it was forced down their throats.
I don't care about that, but I know that in the case of Damansara Damai (the other MK project), the land it sits on was a Nature Reserve because of rare migratory birds that inhabit it.
Perhaps one day someone would care to query how the land was converted for development. And now we hear of the Hyde Park in Kiara... and of course, no more green lung for future generations...
Dear Mat Salo,
Did they think that 50K/head + a bungalow a just compensation for a pastoral way of life?
I often wonder too where did the 'strange' birds by the LDP came from when The Curve was first built. Now I know.
And (Mr) Hyde Park is the most appropriate name for a symbol of 'malignant' development.
Thanks much!
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