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Dramalab is a Malaysian based theatre company that believes in the importance and viability of local theatre and artistic expression. Since it's inception five years ago, Dramalab has successfully provide a fertile and secure place for some of Malaysia's newest writing talents through a series of its Writers Workshop, the third of which is planned for later this year.
In December 1998, Dramalab was a joint first prizewinner in the performing arts category of the Red Ribbon Media Awards. This was for a series of monologues entitled Talking AIDS, which will be reprised at the end of October 1999 for the 5th International Conference on Aids Awareness in the Asia Pacific (ICAP) hosted by the Malaysian AIDS Foundation.
February 1999 followed with another first for Dramalab, who together with the Singapore Repertory Theatre, one of Singapore's largest theatre companies, presented Jit Murad's provocative comedy Gold Rain And Hail Stones at the Raffles Hotel. The play swept audiences off their feet and received as much critical acclaim there and it did when it premiered in Kuala Lumpur in 1994. Two more successful runs followed this in 1998 with the original director, Zahim Albakri and actors, Jit Murad and Lin Jaafar.
Dramalab's production of A Flight Delayed in March this year saw the talented Azean Irdawaty, nine-time best actress of Malaysian television and film shine in her very first English theatre performance. It also heralded the return to stage of consummate actress Ida Nerina amongst a cast of over 13 young and enthusiastic newcomers. Written by first time playwright Yasmin Yaacob, this play was shortlist from Dramalab and Five Art Centre's Writers Workshop II.
Also from the same workshop is a short play currently being rehearsed for a run in November and in the production pipeline for the new millennium are four other new plays. These are all written by young and vibrant Malaysians who have something valid and important to say. Stories to tell that will make you think, feel, laugh, cry and smile in familiar recognition.
In producing these and other plays, Dramalab hopes to continue to give audiences intelligent and interesting theatre that also has resonance and value in a local and international context.
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