Jul 1, 2020 | Comedy, Theatre
Today, July 1st, theatres are permitted to open for the first time since the lockdown started, and penangpac at Straits Quay will be the first theatre in the country to put on a live performance, The Ice Kacang Project, Friday 3rd until Sunday 5th at 8.30pm. So what...
Mar 13, 2020 | Comedy, Theatre
Red Velvet The Play is billed as a “dark comedy”. In fact it has been described to me as a play that deals with taboo issues that are viscerally uncomfortable for some people, making them laugh as a deflection or a release. What are these issues? Paedophilia, hidden...
Nov 2, 2019 | Comedy, Theatre
“Everyone wanted to change the government but no one is willing to change themselves” is the message that critically-acclaimed Penang-based playwright Fa Abdul wants to communicate with her new feature-length comedy, Tales from Malaysia Baru. The two-hour play set in...
Sep 28, 2019 | Comedy, Community, Theatre
penangpac has taken on the worthy and admirable mission of bringing English translations of successful Malay-language plays to Penang. The thought behind it is to try to attract a wide audience of theatre lovers from every background to join together and experience...
Sep 17, 2019 | Choral, Comedy, Music, opera
Iolanthe is one of fourteen Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas that the pair wrote in the late 19th century. Gilbert wrote the words, and created the fanciful, upside-down, absurd worlds that create the, often satirical, comedy of the story, and Sullivan composed the...
