: Aidi 'Alin' Mosbit, Najib Soiman and Siti Khalijah
SYNOPSIS:
*** SINGAPORE RUN SOLD OUT! Tickets now on sale for KL run ***
The Necessary Stage (TNS) celebrates the award-winning collaboration between director Alvin Tan and playwright Haresh Sharma with a provocative new work which premiered to FULL HOUSES in Singapore.
TNS & KLPac will be bringing Gemuk Girls to KL and will be staged at KLPac from 4 to 7 December.
Kartini and Juliana are not your typical mother-daughter pair - one loud and overbearing, the other straitlaced and on the threshold of entering politics. Together, they are Gemuk Girls and proud of it.
One day, they receive shocking news about Kartini's father who had been arrested and detained in the 1960s. Suddenly, the floodgates of the family's emotional past are thrown open. Can a family survive as they struggle to reconcile the past with the present? Will Kartini and Juliana continue to be Gemuk Girls?
Gemuk Girls is a bold and often darkly humorous look at family politics and the politics of the day.
PRESS
There are few productions that have such power, that remind audiences of the possibilities of theatre to question, to move and to ask them to dream. ('Gutsy Girls', Life! The Straits Times, 4 November 2008)
This play has weight, and the actors more than ably pull theirs to give us a classic in Singapore Theatre. ('A human face put to weighty political issues', The Business Times, 31 October 2008)
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