Synopsis:

Lanang (Boy), (2014) was first written in the TheatreWorks 24-Hour Playwriting Competition at The Malay Heritage Centre. Subsequently, it was published in a compendium of winning plays by TheatreWorks (Singapore). Hatch Theatircs will be producing the play in April 2018, at The Malay Heritage Centre as part of our Residency Incubation Period. Join us for a feedback session after the dramatised read! .

Following the death of an enigmatic matriarch, Hajjah Ruminah Binte Salimin, the play talks about how her favourite grandson, Adi Bin Razali, and her daughter Habsah Binte Marzuki, cope with regret, unfulfilled dreams and the fragility of life. The relationship between mother and son is further strained when Habsah, after the death of her mother becomes a completely different woman than she was before, much to the disappointment of her son. This one man play (one actor, two roles) aims to showcase a beautiful and many times, a flawed relationship between a boy and his grandmother and a daughter with her mother.