tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2019-11-01T05:20:31+08:00 Peatix Esplanade tag:peatix.com,2018:event-449263 2018-11-01T20:00:00SGT 2018-11-01T20:00:00SGT

Show Times: Thu & Fri: 8pm Sat: 3pm & 8pm Sun: 8pm Esplanade Theatre Studio (1hr 10min, no intermission. Performed in Malay with English surtitles.)Advisory: This performance contains mature themes and violence. The admission age is 16 years old and above. First staged in 1995, Cerita Cinta marks playwright and director Noor Effendy Ibrahim’s return to Malay theatre since Bilik Ahmad Berdaki (2009). Presenting an unabashed view of the threads that bind a family, it examines the dysfunctionality of an atypical Malay household. SynopsisBeing in control is very much like cooking. One needs to be meticulous at every step, be mindful of one’s actions and not let things stew too long. It’s like making Asam Pedas (spicy tamarind fish), for example, a beloved Malay dish known for its tart, sour and spicy profiles, that is quick to cook but always on the brink of burning.For Roslan, whose dispassionate wife’s routine includes cooking Asam Pedas for him and their two children, food is one of the few things that add colour to his life. Like the dish, his temper tends to rise and hit boiling point, all too quickly sometimes. Gentle and affectionate one moment, he singes and sears the next.At home, there is unspoken love, and there are painful scars. There are responsibilities, and there is the ideal of what a home should be. How will the cycles of joy and sadness, resentment and resignation be broken when they are always teetering on the brink and on rinse and repeat? What are his limits of control?About akulah BIMBO SAKTI akulah BIMBO SAKTI, or I am the MAGIC BIMBO in Malay, is an interdisciplinary performance collective based in Singapore founded by Noor Effendy Ibrahim in 2016 as part of his Singapore National Arts Council Creation Grant 2015–2016 research. Together with Clarisse Ng, a long-time production talent in Singapore theatre, Effendy started akulah BIMBO SAKTI to be his playground for his lifelong performance research inquiring and examining the vulnerability of the solitary male MalayMuslim body in the contemporary performance space. Often addressing problematic issues of gender, sexuality, power, lust, and consumption in both the Singapore and the global contexts, Effendy’s aesthetics and methodologies are inspired by the world of fetish, relationship between flesh and machine, and sadomasochism. Creative and Technical TeamProducer, Director-Playwright, Set Designer: Noor Effendy IbrahimLighting Designer: Emanorwatty SalehSound Artist: anGie seahCast: Saiful Amri Ahmad Elahi, Farah Ong, Shafiqhah Efandi, Kaykay Nizam, Joe Jasmi, Al Hafiz SanusiProduction Stage Manager: Clarisse NgDeputy Stage Manager: Vivi Augustina