kekasih semalam review.

52nd Merdeka

Semalam hanya semalam. Kenangan memanggil-manggil...

We had a wonderful Merdeka Celebration in Queensland last Saturday night at Roundhouse Theatre, QUT Kelvin Grove. The kids performed a very sentimental theatre called Kekasih Semalam (Last night's lover, but they say it's called old love). The above song (Semalam by Sean Ghazi) was the main soundtrack accompanied the acting.

I had a very quiet and good time watching the play. Some laughter slipped through in between. It was colored with so much of emotions. The scripts were catchy and funny whereas the scenes were rather plain and straightforward. Very similar to Yasmin Ahmad's pieces.

Rama was the crowd's favourite for his exceptionally opportunist (by coincidence) character and he is one hell of a lucky bloke. Siew Long (Nijam) as usual, always caught the attention of the crowd by his charming and mysteriously funny body movements and gestures. Cempaka (Emilia) was naturally superb. This is my first time seeing Emilia on stage with lead role and she had really made her way to the top. The whole casts were really good including Hasan the scriptwriter, the Singaporean choreographer (he danced like a swan) and most importantly, Sharifah the director of the theatre who was strong willed and made the theatre so alive.

It is even better than the Samoan's theatre I attended not very long ago. The I like to lick your susu, that was what the Samoan lady said...

I am proud to be a Malaysian, always have.

*taken from noor sahara alishar's facebook page.