My old schoolmate, Hua Keong, sent me the link to this timely youtube video. The berry is Jo Kukathas and I remember there is a connection between Jo and Teluk Intan, our hometown.
Jo Kukathas is one
of Malaysia’s most enduring and versatile performers. She is a writer and
director of countless Instant Café Theatre Company (ICT )comedy revues as well
as other diverse works for ICT including
The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night,
Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Oleanna, Lest the Demons Get to Me, The
Lesson, Flies and Foreigners, Breaking/Ka Si Pe Cah - Silence Please.
She is
hailed as one of the best “schizos” in town by Zainal Alam Kadir for her superb
performance in “From Table Mountain to Teluk Intan”, a one-person play written
by South African born Shahimah Idris.
“From Table Mountain to Teluk Intan” tells
the story of Alia, a mixed race girl from Apartheid South Africa, who emigrates
to Australia, meets and marries a Malaysian man and subsequently moves with him
(and their two children) to Malaysia. It's out of the kettle and into the fire
as she must endure the shaky race relations of her husband's native land. Much
of the story is based on Shaimah’s personal experience. Brutally stabbed in (yet another Malaysian)
basement carpark horror, Alia (and her) is crippled though, with the support of
friends, resolved to walk again.
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