Oppy & Professor Communitas: Meanderings of the Malay male theatremaker
about 37 months ago (04/20/2021)
Oppy & Professor Communitas: Meanderings of the Malay male theatremaker | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Five Arts Centre April 20, 2021 By Lily Jamaludin (1,170 words, 4-minute read) A new addition to the genre of online theatre, Oppy & Professor Communitas by Five Arts Centre is a thoughtful, humorous, and self-reflective examination of the role and struggle of Malaysian theatremakers. Anchored through a series of workshop lectures, the play centres on Oppy, a young actor and musician who is at a crossroads about his own artistic practice, and his workshop facilitator, an unflinchingly candid and experienced theatremaker who is referred to only as “Prof”. The play, hosted on CloudTheatre, successfully uses the digital “Zoom theatre” medium, with director Fasyali Fadzly’s choices rendering moments in Leow Puay Tin’s text colourful, humorous, surreal, and deeply introspective.