Year 2022
A Timely Collage
- A specially-commissioned dramatised tour inspired by Malay Heritage Centre’s last special exhibition, Cerita.
- Roving site-specific performance inside Malay Heritage Centre
- Performed several performances in a span of 3 different months
Anak (Child)
- 30 years after its very first staging entitled ANAK MELAYU, playwright and director Noor Effendy Ibrahim offers an updated version of ANAK (Child) in 2022.
- Written & directed by Noor Effendy Ibrahim
- Presents an unrelenting, uncomfortable, and unforgiving portrayal of the psyches of six Malay youths and their relationships with family, religion, and love.
- Performed on 17 – 20 Mar 2022
- Performed at Esplanade Theatre Studio
- Esplanade.com/anak
- Review, in English, by Dumbriyani: No Anak
- Review, in English, by Fairuz Jaafar: A Review of Anak
- Review, in English, by Corrie Tan in ‘The Intimate Critic’: Trauma, abuse, and power struggles haunt us in different ways in this 30th-anniversary rewrite of Noor Effendy Ibrahim’s seminal “Anak Melayu”
- (“I also wanted to spend some time with Fuad (Al Hafiz Sanusi), who wanders around the space trapped in a dog mask. There’s a moment where he cries out, plaintively, Aku anjing? Aku… anjing? (I’m a dog? I’m… a dog?), and it just broke my heart. What happens when people cannot even recognise the debilitating roles they have taken on in a family, in a community? How do they even escape?”)
Year 2021
There Are Saga Seeds In Our Pockets
- Digital performance adapted from a popular children’s book of the same title
- Directed by Dalifah Shahril for Pesta Raya 2021, organised by Esplanade Theatre
Tepuk Amai-Amai
- Children’s Theatre piece performed during times of pandemic
- Directed by Cultural Medallion recipient, Atin Amat
Where Are You?
- Devised & directed by Sim Yan Ying
- Weaving together personal stories and cultural perspectives, Where Are You? attempts to excavate the universal experience of grief through its unique manifestations.
- Preview by Wild Rice: Good Grief with Sim Yan Ying “YY”
- Review by Bakchormeeboy: Where Are You? – 8th February 2021
- Review by the Straits Times: Where Are You? is a thoughtful look at grief after death – 7th February 2021
Wan Belantara: Enjet-Enjet Semut
- Written by Anwar Hadi Ramli
- Directed by Saiful Amri
- Fringe Commission for the M1 Fringe Festival 2021
- Review by Bakchormeeboy: Wan Belantara: Enjet-Enjet Semut – 29th January 2021
Year 2020
Not My Mother’s Baking
- Directed by Remi M. Sali
- World Premiere at the 31st Singapore International Film Festival 2020
- Screening at all Filmgarde Cineplexes for 9 consecutive weeks
- Official Trailer: Not My Mother’s Baking Trailer | SGIFF 2020
- Review (in Malay) by Pengkritik Sandiwara: ‘Not My Mother’s Baking’ bukan cinta biasa – 9th January 2021
- Review (in English) by The Homeground Asia: Not Your Typical Love Story: ‘Not My Mother’s Baking’ Tackles Race and Religion too – 10th November 2020
- Review {in English) by Sindie: Not My Mother’s Baking
Cik Hassan
- Music Video for Singapore’s Malay Pop Ye Ye band, El Bonekas
- Link to Music Video: Cik Hassan (2020)
Candide
- A graduation showcase of W!ILD RICE’s Young & Wild Acting Programme
- Directed by Edith Podesta
- Preview by Wild Rice: Wild Rice Places Future Generations of Young Theatre-Makers Front and Centre Stage
- (“Candide is a pitch-perfect play for our times – one that questions the value of optimism just as we are living through one of the darkest, most turbulent moments in human history,” notes Edith Podesta, Wild Rice’s Associate Artistic Director for Young & Wild.)
- Review by Bakchormeeboy: Candide – 15th December 2020
Year 2018
Cerita Cinta
- Directed by Noor Effendy Ibrahim
- Contains heavy, mature themes such as domestic violence and child abuse
- Review by Bakchormeeboy: Cerita Cinta – 5th November 2018
- Review by dumBriyani: SAYA TAK SIHAT! – 6th November 2018
- (“I never understood why, but then, the psyche of survivors are difficult to comprehend. Zaki was the textbook example of a child so moulded and shaped by trauma, he seemed to be low functioning, he seemed to have cognitive difficulties, his development so stunted by fear.”)
- Link to Full Show: Cerita Cinta (Love Story) 2 Nov 2018
Nam Hwa Opera’s ‘Persecuting The Husband’
- A Teochew Opera performance
- Performed in a comic jester role
An Anatomy of a Heartbreak
- A movement, site-specific piece held at ArtScience Museum, part of ArtScience Late
- Characters inspired by Speak Cryptic‘s visual arts
- Performative movement piece on the 7 stages of grief
- Link to Performance: An Anatomy of a Heartbreak
Year 2017
BaliTaksu
- Went for an intensive 2-weeks Balitaksu Actors’ Training programme in Bali, Indonesia learning Western clowning and Balinese masks work
- Performed an excerpt of Sarah Kane’s ‘Blasted’ as Ian
Ollie & Friends (Season 4)
- Mascot Actor for Ollie character (lead role)
- Worked on over 36 dance/movement items in mascot and 30 scripted episodes
Year 2016
Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) Mascots
- Worked with RWS for a couple of events as a Mascot Actor
- Link to performance: RWS Pokemon Exhibition
Club Malam: The Tribe
- A movement, site-specific piece held at Old Kallang Airport, for SIFA O.P.E.N.
Beijing Opera
- Went for an intensive 3-weeks Beijing Opera training with Shanghai Theatre Academy in Shanghai, China
- Performed a Beijing Opera version of August Strindberg’s ‘Miss Julie’ as Jean
Year 2015
Mending The Broken Heart
- Part of the Ensemble on a production centered on cancer patients and caregiver
Year 2013
Traffic Jam
- Garnered positive review by Obscured.sg for lead performance
- “The standout of the night was undoubtedly the performance of Al Hafiz Sanusi who played the lead role of Y, portraying the various obstacles and barriers he faced as he grew up.” (Alethea Tan, 15 Oct 2013)
- Traffic Jam-2013
Year 2012
Mama Looking For Her Cat
- Part of the Ensemble in Paper Monkey’s production
Flower Nymphs
- A roving movement and site-specific piece by Cake Theatre
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