Thursday 31 October 2013

Atomic Jaya - still radioactive after all these years


This was my third time watching Atomic Jaya - the first being over a decade ago.   For this run, Claire Wong and Karen Tan played multiple characters in the story where Malaysia was planning to build an atomic bomb.  Scientist Mary Yuen was recruited by General Zulkifli for this project and things went astray...

Huzir Sulaiman's script was tight and funny, and both actresses delivered the lines with good chemistry and timing.  In certain scenes, both actressess played the same character at the same time, which is different from past stagings.   The set was beautifully constructed by Wong Chee Wai.
I still enjoyed the production after third watching.  To rate which one is my favourite?  I would say the performance that was staged at the Substation where Claire Wong played all the characters.  Part of the fun of this play was to see how the actor transformed from one role to another, and a solo performance was just perfect.  Having said that, the 2013 version was a good staging.  The weaker was the version starring Claire Wong and Huzir Sulaiman in the mid 2000s.

I am glad that this play did not look dated.  The issues mentioned are still relevant in 2013....

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