F for Female….feminism in Malaysia

Last week, I went to The Actors Studio, Bangsar Shopping Centre to watch a play that bought up feminist issues. Here, the plays are to show that women’s rights in Malaysia can only be achieved when everyone including women start respecting each other for whom they really are without being prejudice or discrimination. There were two plays. The first one is Anything for Love, where it shows the extend a women would do for love. Some marry for the sake of money and some on the basis of love. There were so many confusions and questions portrayed in this play. What does it take to be love? Money and power or just plain sacrifice? The battle of the inner voices. Do women often compromises with their needs in exchange for love? In this play, we can see how Datin Khatijah was not happy with her marriage as she married her husband for the sake of money. She suffered. Here, I amused with the way they play with the light to show the characters existence. The next play was Infant. Here it shows that one will be always be culpable for one’s actions, each person will always be judged for what he or she does…A girl’s life is shattered, her future bleak and hopeless because of another woman’s action. A pure irony of human life. All were revealed in this play. I really should give a standing for ovation for this play. The actresses were damn good. They acted it so real, as I’m the audience can feel the pain when Lisa tied the lawyer. Lastly, the ending of the play was unpredictable, as I was not expect that Lisa was the lawyer’s daughter. BRAVo!!