I was at Istana Budaya again tonight, watching a theatre show – ‘Perkahwinan’ – by Kelab Teater Rimba, UKM. It was, I must say, one of the best yet I have seen. A simple story with simple chronology made interesting and engaging by excellent acting. I have not seen many comedies without covering either my face or my ears. But this one…I wanted to see and hear it all. Yeah, that good! (Mind you, while we are still on the subject, I think the Raja Lawak show on TV is not funny at all, because it is the joke – and nobody’s laughing!)
Not even halfway through the show, I stopped wondering why ‘Perkahwinan’ has had 12 invitations so far – including a couple from Indonesia. Though I had my reservation when I got to know the show succeeded to get only Lambang Sari as the venue at Istana Budaya, I could see right away that it can even go farther. Bravo to ‘Perkahwinan’ team! The acting talent of each and every player was tremendous.
Seeing the director, Diani Kasian (known as Abang Kancil to us Kelab Teater Rimba alumni) and Yuhana Yusoff (as Mak Su) tonight brought back loads of memories of the those-were-the-days. Yuhana was the best actress at Pekan Teater Kebangsaan 1992 through our case “Abyss”. She still gave and showed her talent tonight abyss-abyssan! We said hello, had a typical TESL hyena squeal and a little where-are-you-now chat (the telling but not telling) session for about 2 minutes before saying goodbye again. That was it. An abyss between then and tonight, and an abyss between tonight and then.
Whenever then will be.
A picture of yours truly and a dear friend from the back-then era,
just to show that we were in KTR.
Questa è Enida 
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