Hantaran Buat Mangsa Lupa
(Offerings for the Victims of Amnesia)
Teater Ekamatra (Singapore)

Hantaran Buat Mangsa Lupa

16 - 18 February 2012, 8pm
18 February 2012, 3pm
The Substation Theatre
$19

www.ekamatra.org.sg

(Fringe Commission / World Premiere / Co-presented with The Substation)

Hantaran Buat Mangsa Lupa is a trilogy of plays inspired by the three main events leading to the establishment of Islam. Paired with the severely poetic nature of the Malay language, Hantaran offers a dimension that faith excludes and questions. The first 2 plays – Genap 40 and W.C. - were previously staged to small audiences, and this presentation marks the completion of the trilogy with the premiere of 94:05 alongside the other two.

Performed by three talented theatre and TV actors, Sani Hussin, Mastura Ahmad and newcomer Rian Asrudi, Hantaran Buat Mangsa Lupa is a performance not to be missed.

Expectations of fate and faith are tussled with in language that was both sophisticated in its intellectual curiosity and dramatically poetic.”
- The Straits Times Life! on Genap 40

(Performed in Malay with English surtitles.)

Relationship to Art & Faith

We are what we do not resist. And in faith, we resist questions. Hantaran Buat Mangsa Lupa offers room for these questions to co-exist with faith itself – inevitable questions that are kept suppressed, which from time to time, haunt and test our faith.

This trilogy is inspired by the three main events in the establishment of Islam, the second largest religion in the world. Genap 40 tackles fate and gender difference, W.C. insinuates sexuality within comfort, and lastly, 94:05 speaks of justice and equality.

Hantaran does not serve as a critique of the idealistic, but rather an offering, to remind us that faith is very much a private affair, which at times departs from religion.

Publicity photos:
1 - [Black Square] - Photo credit: Carmen Read
2 - [Black Square] - Photo credit: Bacchus Lee
3 - [Black Square] - Photo credit: Bacchus Lee

Production photos:
1 - [Black Square] - Photo credit: Bacchus Lee
2 - [Black Square] - Photo credit: Bacchus Lee
3 - [Black Square] - Photo credit: Carmen Read