Keturunan Ruminah: WhatsApp play on family inheritance
about 37 months ago (04/06/2021)
Keturunan Ruminah: WhatsApp play on family inheritance | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints HATCH April 6, 2021 By Azura Farid and Nabilah Said The pandemic led theatre collective HATCH to dream up Keturunan Ruminah (Ruminah’s Family), a play that takes place entirely on WhatsApp. Rightly, HATCH identified the potential of the WhatsApp group chat to be a site of potent family drama, this one centred on ghostly possession, complete with videos of possible supernatural elements, and audio voice notes sent by bossy aunties and gifs by freaked out cousins. The play follows an exchange amongst an extended family where we learn through a young man, Adi, that his mother, Habsah, who recently left the family group chat, has been acting strange.