Tag: georgetown festival
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Review: P. Ramlee – The Musical
On the last day of the 2015 Georgetown Festival, a friend showed up at my door thirty minutes before showtime and said there was a free ticket to “P Ramlee: The Musical,” and did I want to go? Okay. The musical is in Malay, which I don’t speak, but undeterred I went to discover what…
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Theatre Review: Slow Sound of Snow
I was able to catch the Iranian drama troupe perform the experimental dramatic piece “Slow Sound of Snow” as part of the 2016 Georgetown Festival. The story (if you call it that) takes place in a small shack with a slanted floor, huddled underneath a treacherous mountain cliff which is in danger of producing an…
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Theatre Review: Albee’s “At the Zoo” by Theatrethreesixty
Edward Albee’s “At the Zoo” was the first play written by the man who has become one of America’s most important playwrights. Theatrethreesixty’s production of the play is a powerful and gripping look at the animal nature in all of us sitting comfortably beneath our skin. This one-act story revolves around the meeting of strangers…
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Review of “Best of”: Insightful Cultural Night
I had the opportunity to catch “Best of” at PenangPAC on Friday night – one of only 2 performances as part of the Georgetown Festival. Siti Khalijah Zainal put on an entertaining and enlightening one hour, one-woman show, part comedy, part poignant drama, which highlighted the life of a Malay living as a minority in…
Author Mark W Sasse 