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as deena jeff s sexy college chum ryan lee bhaskaran at 12 the youngest in the cast breezed through his part as the apple of puan fatimah s eye and nell ng charmed everybody as a wisecrack and toilet paper dispensing airport janitor in fact the whole ensemble was pretty energetic and fairly disciplined a testimony to zahim albakri s sound directorial instincts and mac chan s fast paced lighting the frenetic choreographed movements by lianna leong were effectively and efficiently used to change the tempo and rearrange the elegant set by adeline ooi nell ng ironically the pacing went flabby only in several scenes where zahim was interacting with ida somehow the chemistry between them wasn t entirely working though it s difficult to put one s finger on exactly why certain exchanges didn t quite come alive i ve heard reports that iskandar najmuddin did exceptionally well as jeff in last year s production perhaps that s why zahim had trouble creating his own version of jeff a flight delayed may not be the most original of plays but it certainly has enough box office appeal and wacky sophistication to warrant a movie version or at least several more extended runs already it has been included in the program of the singapore arts festival 2000 in june and i don t believe the selection was made entirely on the basis that the action is set in changi airport 24 february 2000 share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading leave a comment posted in malaysian theatre theater and tagged a flight delayed azean irdawaty ida nerina nell ng patrick teoh yasmin yaacob zahim albakri bookmark the permalink marvelous marathon of mirth posted on october 4 2012 by antares maitreya harith iskandar afdlin shauki fat funny fellows antares splits his sides and meets old friends at actorlympics oh it s good to spend a sunday afternoon guffawing non stop though 150 minutes did seem a bit excessive towards the end with a suave patrick teoh playing emcee or umpire afdlin shauki harith iskandar jit murad jo kukathas nell ng and zahim albakri treated kl audiences to another rousing round of theater sports where everything is improvised nell ng afdlin shauki in action they were absolutely brilliant and you d have to be a dullard to disagree bringing a whole new meaning to thinking on your feet they winged it at high altitude skydiving over bangsar and taking the mickey out of the mouse they performed on raw instinct propelled by pure talent driven by sheer wit they had the audience completely enthralled and eating out of their hands it s tempting to try and recapture some of the highlights in a review but you really had to be there to appreciate the inspired inanity of the performances okay just to give you a taste of the hysterical goings on one event had the cast divided into two teams random props chosen by the backstage crew were handed to each team and they had to improvise short scenes using these props a red plastic stool is offered to one team within 3 seconds they re improvising a scene at a clinic with the doctor saying good i see you ve brought a stool sample that sort of thing virtually impossible to translate into mere words ladies and gentlemen here are a few mutant malaysians equipped with high speed data processing circuits oodles of charisma and most importantly a healthy sense of humor and the ability to laugh at themselves i d entrust the entire country to their moisturized and slippery hands indeed i m proud to have witnessed their ascension to world class comedy status afdlin shauki afdlin shauki first caught the public eye around 1990 when he starred in a self penned production directed by joe hasham it was evident even then that he was some sort of prodigy in the mode of john belushi he had enough promise as a singer to get signed up by roslan aziz along with zainal abidin and amir yussof he honed his comedic skills in a series of instant café theatre revues and was a great success in huzir sulaiman s hit musical hip hopera recently he was seen as one of mongkut s courtiers in the movie anna and the king for a while he toured with his r b group acidiz and recorded on his own label acid rain in between acting and directing engagements afdlin is a bona fide malaysian showbiz success story and has never been known to make a foolish move at least not until the year 2012 when he decided much to my distress to join a racist rightwing political party i remember harith iskandar s early ventures into stand up comedy at all that jazz when he d go on stage and try out his routine between sets by rafique rashid it was obvious the man had the wherewithal to make it big in comedy later he tried his hand at filmmaking and directed ella and hans isaac in a malay feature called hanya kawan as to be expected harith was cast as a neanderthal warrior in anna and the king he s physically big but mentally agile and his comedic body language and timing are spot on the one only jit murad there was a lady in the audience who told me it was her second time at the show and she d brought her family along i came to see jit murad she sighed i just love jit i bet she wasn t the only one who s enamored of jit s inimitable charm and wit i met jit murad back in the mid 1980s when he made his kl stage debut in thor kah hoong s seminal stage sitcom caught in the middle a couple of years later he played my son in maureen ten s whimsical for the time being zahim albakri was making his kl stage debut too as an angel assisting my transition from the physical world soon jit and zahim were regularly seen on tv in a whole slew of malay dramas not surprising as there was always a gaggle of giggly schoolgirls waiting outside the dressing room for jit and zahim at the end of each performance no one had the heart to tell these girls they didn t stand a chance in heaven of dating these pretty lads when the instant café theatre was inaugurated in 1989 jit and zahim were among the founder members along with jo kukathas and andrew leci jit has since made a name for himself as a playwright while zahim branched out into directing with great success jo kukathas ms kukathas s illustrious theater career warrants a 5 000 word article she was an english teacher when i first met her through one of her colleagues the next thing i knew she was appearing in caught in the middle which is how she connected with jit and zahim the enduring success of the instant café theatre is largely due to ms kukathas s superhuman drive and tenacity a few days before actorlympics opened she was hospitalized with bronchitis i suppose that was when zahim was roped in just in case but jo kukathas is such a trooper she simply had to see it through no one would have guessed she wasn t in top physical form throughout the strenuous proceedings that s what i call dedication though some might deem it a form of divine madness nell ng was playing bit parts only a few years ago but her intensity and focus were clearly evident and so were her consummate skills as a comedienne she soon became a regular member of the instant café theatre and confidently held her own among the veterans for a while she worked the graveyard shift at a radio station as a deejay until she was offered a juicy rôle in a singapore tv sitcom series baby star nell ng will be making her directorial debut in a series of skits produced by faridah merican and performed by a group of acting students patrick teoh patrick teoh i ve known for over a quarter century when he was a producer with rediffusion back then i kept urging him to get involved in theater and he d shrug and say don t have the nerve lah these days you can t keep the man off the boards and a good thing too he s an absolute gem on stage as well as on the screen these amazing talents deserve their own tv station film company recording studio theater and unlimited funding or at least no more reactionary bureaucratic impediments we d soon be exporting the best that malaysia has to offer in the way of cultural artifacts this is no laughing matter the beatles were awarded orders of the british empire obes for boosting the british economy during the 1960s the fact that the fab four said thanks but no thanks and promptly returned their medals to the queen is quite beside the point 30 april 2002 share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading 2 comments posted in theater uncategorized and tagged actorlympics afdlin shauki harith iskandar jit murad jo kukathas nell ng patrick teoh zahim albakri bookmark the permalink theater of the articulate posted on september 3 2012 by antares maitreya yasmina reza cerebral chic many people confuse information and meaning which leads to a rather disturbing paradox our society has come to place an enormous value on information even though information itself can tell us nothing about value erik davis in techgnosis myth magic and mysticism in the age of information 1998 yasmina reza is an exotic and gifted actress novelist and playwright of jewish hungarian parentage but domiciled in paris her cerebral tragicomedy of manners art has won many coveted awards since it opened in 1994 at 42 ms reza is undoubtedly a big time international success she s articulate intelligent poised and elegant and stars like sean connery robert de niro and al pacino clamor for rôles in her plays huzir sulaiman art is decidedly a virtuoso play written for virtuoso performers little wonder that local virtuoso huzir sulaiman decided to bring the play to kl audiences through his straits theatre company despite stiff performance royalties for staging current mainstream boxoffice hits it was a great opportunity to bring together the combined acting talents of three of malaysia s most outstanding young actors jit murad zahim albakri and huzir himself under the sure but by now predictable hand of veteran director krishen jit whose task was certainly made easier by the fine quality of his cast zahim albakri as serge the dermatologist with upper crust aspirations and enough ready cash to splurge on avant garde art zahim albakri was in superb form his was an affable believable serge someone you might actually have met last week at a kenny hills dinner party jit murad as marc an acerbic well read aeronautical engineer with aesthetic dyspepsia turned in an interesting performance not that he wasn t excellent as usual but there was a complex psychodynamic undercurrent between him and zahim that at times exceeded their stage personas yvan a genial ne er do well everyman marrying into the stationery business was played to great comedic effect by the masterful huzir sulaiman the strength of yasmina reza s play is of course the incredibly witty dialogue brilliantly translated into english by that master playwright christopher hampton who also translated les liaisons dangereuses recently staged in kl by the actors studio the straits theatre company production of art was unpretentious with a functional minimalist set by paul lau and quietly supportive lighting by bernard chauly jr enlivened by an aurally stimulating selection of musical inserts ear picked by huzir sulaiman a white painting by richard antrios lau with barely discernible diagonal and horizontal lines in ever so subtle greys and yellows is central to the entire premise of the play for what it s worth someone actually bought the canvas for an undisclosed amount after the play ended its run at the k r soma auditorium life imitates art i suppose jit murad the intricate psychodynamics of this 3 man tour de force of late 20th century neo existentialist drama has provoked a flood of literary and philosophical commentary a fascinating analysis by the primitive modernist painter max podstolski can be accessed here like the white painting itself yasmina reza s inspired musings on the nature of friendships the meaning and value of cultural artifacts and the existential effeteness of our consumerist society bear many levels of interpretation the crafty playwright effectively blurs the lines between the profound and the trivial the serious and the absurd the eternal and the ephemeral was it the most stimulating or thought provoking play i d ever seen arguably not but from the moment art began i was sucked into an irresistible vortex of pure enjoyment that reminded me that the ultimate value of theater is its power to educate and provoke through sheer entertainment 28 june 2001 share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading 2 comments posted in theater and tagged art huzir sulaiman jit murad straits theatre company yasmina reza zahim albakri bookmark the permalink years of laughing dangerously posted on august 17 2012 by antares maitreya tudong farewell with members of the instant cafe theatre antares reviews millennium jump yet another millennium approaches the program cover says it all down in the highrise condo parking lot nine patriots have made a deep impression on the bitumen as law abiding non rioting malaysians they have scrupulously avoided landing in a space marked kosongkan leave empty on the roof edge from which they presumably performed their death denying millennium jump we see a pair of reading glasses a watch a rubber slipper a cellular phone and the day s edition of boleh the semua boleh paper sporting the headline win rm1 million u chump sdn bhd offers once in a lifetime prize to first 100 malaysians who jump off pangsapuri de sin absurd that s life in dr mahathir s malaysia for you although the newspaper reading taxpayer may not be aware of this until he or she has had the opportunity to attend an instant café theatre performance the fact that ict s pungent political satire has been tolerated for the past 11 years indicates that the company has attained the status of national court jester laureate and as such enjoys comedic licence to lampoon everything and everyone in sight even samy vellu and his legendary acts of lunasy the doctor may not agree but laughter is indeed the best medicine maybe it won t cure our social and political ills but even the most repressed society needs to let off a little steam and the growing success of the instant café theatre can be held up as proof that democracy thrives in malaysia whether guided or misguided in any event ict certainly boleh although getting on national tv still tak boleh when unintelligence and mediocrity get you down who do you call instant café theatre when you feel there s little prospect for genuine talent in this country and you begin to entertain thoughts of migrating what do you do go see ict it s remarkable how invigorating it is to watch all your frustrations ventilated right on stage by this remarkable and intrepid troupe of lovable jesters led by the chaplinesque jo kukathas the line between reality and satire gets extremely blurred at an ict performance malaysians can endure ect 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