Friends

Apr 2008

Telok Ayer Performing Arts Centre

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By Directors Ganesh (Sathai) & Saleem (Saakadai)

SATHAI
- Conceptualised by GANESH KASI

Sathai attempts to break social boundaries set within the community for personal gain. The play is positioned within a complex barter trade practiced in society where sex is the commodity. Are women victims of lust? Objects of desire? Heartbreakers? Emotionalists? Feminists? Manipulative? On the other hand, are men impulsive? Horny? Reckless? Chauvinistic? These questions tread further in the play to unfold a story that takes you to the darker realms of the human mind.
Flesh explores the reality of human behaviour being taken as a product of interest. Sexual satisfaction is juxtaposed as flesh trade. This concept is triggered from the recent influx of media programmes, where sexuality was used as a commodity to satisfy a global demand. The writer tries to highlight the sexual expectations and exploitations that occurs socially through this experimental performance. This performance has the potential for wider exploration and broader understanding of the human mind and needs. Ever had a taste of rotting meat? Wondered how it would look, up close? The smell? The Director is not talking about the meat that you buy in the market but puts forth a case of moral dilemma and victimisation through a trade that is beyond rationalisation.

SAAKADAI
- Conceptualised by SALEEM HADI

Everyday we are constantly trying to look nice and smell nice. Thanks to the all brands and expensive labels that have helped us attain a status where we are now. One can’t stop marveling how such materialistic forms can glorify us and simultaneously, womb us from the society that is on guard to scrutinize at the slightest detail they can pry on. But who are we, really, when we are stripped off from all these? What are we made of? SAAKADAI, penetrates into our identity beyond our given names and digs out the disgust, filth and rubbish we have successfully decorated with materialistic forms over all these years. The play explores the disgusting nature of people where the words they speak, emit the stench of faeces; the sights they see, direct to the residence of vulgar; the things they do, shock and cripple one’s comprehension on the way some people can live their lives.. lives of sewer. Rather than inching and kissing on the subject matter, SAAKADAI devours on the stinking societal issues that are happening right before our very own eyes yet regarded transparent as if it never existed. Was that the intention? Or has it become a norm one has become comfortable with? If that’s the case, come! Let’s get comfortable!

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