Pentas FM is a series of Malaysian stage plays that have been adapted into audio plays. The project features renowned and up-and-coming playwrights, directors, and actors from Malaysia's performing arts community. The aim is to open the eyes of the performing arts community to new opportunities and ways of producing theatrical plays, and embracing new formats that go beyond the physical dimensions of the stage.
Pentas FM is produced by The Cooler Lumpur Festival and supported by MyCreative Ventures, Cultural Economy Development Agency (CENDANA), &; PENJANA (Pelan Jana Semula Ekonomi Negara).
Tok Perak - a well-known, respected, and aging itinerant seller of Malay traditional medicine - tries to settle down in a kampung in Kuala Kangsar by marrying a widow with three grown-up children, one of whom – Hamid – admires Tok Perak and wants to become a penjual ubat too. This story is set in the 1970s when Malaysia is undergoing rapid developmental changes driven by science and technology.
The text is an abridged version of the original Malay play which had its first staging in 1975 in Kuala Lumpur, with the late playwright, Datuk Syed Alwi Syed Hassan, in the title role.
Conceptualised and directed by Norzizi Zulkifli
Performed by Hamzah Tahir, Walid Ali, and Nor Fadhilah Bt Mohamad Noor Akae
Check out more episodes at www.coolerlumpur.com/pentasfm (//www.coolerlumpur.com/pentasfm).
13 Oct 2022
Ang Tau Mui
Ang Tau Mui is the nickname of a failed actress-turned-public-toilet-cleaner who grew up in the 1960s in Malacca town, whose childhood idol was the tragic Hong Kong movie star Lin Dai. It is about the last day of a woman’s life where she goes shopping, desperately searching something to buy from among the “millions of things for sale”.
The text for this audio production is extracted from A Modern Woman Called Ang Tau Mui, written by Leow Puay Tin, first staged in Kuala Lumpur and Adelaide in 1994, with the playwright in the title role.
Conceptualised and directed by Tung Jit Yang
Performed by Takahara Suiko
Music composed and performed by Takahara Suiko (‘Oi, Oi, Ang Tau Mui!’ and ‘People say life is like a dream’)
Check out more episodes at www.coolerlumpur.com/pentasfm (//www.coolerlumpur.com/pentasfm).
28 Sept 2022
Mat Deris
Mat Deris tells the story of his life – how he has managed to turn his life around from childhood poverty in a fishing village in Perlis to becoming a wealthy and respectable man of influence and power in society – through criminal activities that include extortion, arson, prostitution, and killing.
Mat Derih Kola Perlih – or ‘Mat Deris of Kuala Perlis’ – is the title of a play written in Malay by Namron (Shahili Abdan). The text for this audio production has been adapted from an English translation of the play by Azzad Mahzir.
Directed by Leysha Al-Yahya
Performed by Ali Alasri
Check out more episodes at www.coolerlumpur.com/pentasfm (//www.coolerlumpur.com/pentasfm).
29 Aug 2022
Nok
‘Nok’ features two characters of Malay-Chinese parentage, a mother and her daughter, at different stages of their lives. The mother reveals her internal world, speaking about her panic attacks and her fear of passing down an unnamed sickness in her family, while her daughter wants answers to questions she has been afraid to ask all her life, especially the dreaded one: “Were you planning to abort me?”.
The text has been adapted from Aku, Kau Dan Dia, a play in English by Leysha Al-Yahya.
Directed by Faiq Syazwan Kuhiri
Voiced by Suriani Kempe and Sara Hani
Check out more episodes at www.coolerlumpur.com/pentasfm (//www.coolerlumpur.com/pentasfm).
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