Gemuk Girls (2008)

The Necessary Stage celebrates the award-winning collaboration of Director Alvin Tan and Playwright Haresh Sharma with a provocative new work.

Kartini and Juliana are not your typical mother-daughter pair - one loud and overbearing, the other straitlaced and on the threshold of entering politics. Together, they are Gemuk Girls and proud of it.

One day, they receive shocking news about Kartini's father who has been arrested and detained in the 1960s. Suddenly the floodgates of the family's emotional past are thrown open. Can a family survive as they struggle to reconcile the past with the present? Will Kartini and Juliana continue to be Gemuk Girls?

Gemuk Girls is a bold and often darkly humorous look at family politics and the politics of the day.

Playwright: Haresh Sharma
Director: Alvin Tan

Set Designer: Vincent Lim
Multimedia Designer: Loo Zihan
Lighting Designer: Helmi Fita

Cast: Aidli 'Alin' Mosbit, Najib Soiman, Siti Khalijah

Production Stage Manager: Elnie Shumastri Mashari
Assistant Stage Manager/Stylist/Costume Coordinator: Molizah Mohd Mohter

Lighting Operator: Nureen Raidah
Multimedia Operator: Gloria Tan
Subtitlist: Fezhah Maznan
Crew: Siti Raudha Tehan
Translators:
Quah Sy Ren
Irfan Kasban
Shanon Shah
Melissa Lim
Irma Suzanna Ruslan
Cast Members

(Source: The Necessary Stage Programme)

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