Instant Cafe Theater: "Flies and Foreigners"

INSTANT CAFE presents FLIES AND FOREIGNERS Comments from preview and opening night: excellent performances strong stellar cast compelling gripping moving darkly funny exciting original play Ridzwan Othman - a crisp new talent Ghafir Akbar - outstanding Farah Ashikin - amazing performance ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Starring Ghafir Akbar - Kakiseni's Cameronian Award nominee for Most Promising Newcomer Award 2003 and nominee for Best Actor Award 2004 Written by Ridzwan Othman - winner of the New Straits Times Short Story Competition 2002 winner of the BBC Short Story Competition 2002 Directed by Jo Kukathas Kakiseni's Cameronian Award winner for Best Performer Award 2003 Lighting design by Mac Chan Kakiseni's Cameronian Award winner for Best lighting Designer Award 2003 and 2004 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FLIES AND FOREIGNERS By RIDZWAN OTHMAN Director: JO KUKATHAS Starring GHAFIR AHKBAR SOEFIRA JAFAAR FARAH ASHIKIN MARGARET GAN STUART PAYNE R. THIAGU Nora and Jeka have decided its time to get married. So Jeka brings a nervous Nora back to his house to meet his mother for the first time. But strangely Ma is not at home and Deso, the maid can only say vaguely that she has gone 'shopping and doctor'. "My maid the psycho" laughs Jeka. However as the evening wears on and unwanted visitors come and go, things unravel; Mrs Tee steals some rambutans, Deso and Jeka do a scene from Hamlet and William flirts outrageously with Nora. Meanwhile the table is set for dinner, flies are beginning to hover and amid the chaos of falling rice and toilet plungers Nora wonders just what she has gotten herself into. A black comedy about a domestic crisis. DATES/TICKETS Student Preview: June 9 8.30pm Tickets: RM12 Evenings: June 10 - 20 8.30pm Tickets: RM 52 and 37 (except Sundays) Matinees: June 13 & 20 3pm ALL Tickets RM37 Student Standby available 15 minutes before showtime for all shows RM27 (valid only with proper student ID.) Block Bookings: One free ticket for block bookings of 10 or more tickets. VENUE: The Actors Studio Theatre Bangsar For tickets call the Actors Studio Box Office: 03 -2094 0400/2094 5400