I go to see some Malaysian Theatre – a musical called Kampung Boy, which is based on the life of this Malaysian newspaper cartoonist called Mohammed Nor Khalid, or Lat for short. It’s all in Malay (with the exception of one of the songs and little bits of the dialogue). There are subtitles above the stage, which are pretty useless really: there seems to be a lot more dialogue going on stage than the subtitles care to show, and the audience are laughing at things that I have no idea are funny or not!
Despite this, I do get the gist of the story: boy grows up in village near Ipoh, good at cartoons, moves to town, gets job as cartoonist, gets married, travels world, neglects family, realises errors, moves back to village near Ipoh etc
Still, it was enjoyable, and something different to do: though it may have been better if I could have had a large gin and tonic at the interval – instead we all needed coffee to keep awake - pretty tired after the birthday celebrations last night.
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