What does it mean to 'reclaim' the ocean and cut down trees for a highway, a mall, and progress? What does it mean to be a man and a woman? What does the man who dreamt of drowning in the ocean before jumping off the Penang Bridge and Bersih 5 have in common?
Riwayat (from 'riwayat hidup,' Malay for 'life story') asks these questions and brings to the stage a brutally honest, impactful, and sometimes hilarious devised piece -- of movement, multi-lingual text, and original soundscape -- that reacts to the world around and within us, investigating the shared memories and stories of living and being in Malaysia now.
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