Kursus Asas Lakonan PERCUMA - sekarang dibuka

Drama queens and kings, rejoice! Jointly organized by myHarapan and acclaimed performing arts collective Rumah Anak Teater (RAT Production), Projek Asas Teater is an intensive 3-week course designed to equip aspiring thespians with basic skills and knowledge in acting.

Under the watchful eyes of award winner Ayam Fared and Nam Ron, participants will be coached in their respective chosen fields based on specially-constructed syllabi. These include trips to actual performing arts productions and the opportunity to star in one of their very own!

Lest you think that is all Projek Asas Teater has going for it, think again. Malaysia is a treasure trove of hidden creative talents. But like all treasure troves, they must be unearthed first. This is the foremost objective of the project, in addition to providing a platform for budding young individuals to develop their abilities, showcase them to a wider audience and hopefully further their careers in the cutthroat make-or-break world of entertainment.

Training will commence every Saturday + Sunday from April 28th July to July 11th August at The Cabaret, PJ Live Art Theatre (directions). Actors and actresses will take to the floor at 10am to 6pm.

Module is as follows:

Drama | Breathing techniques, vocal projection, body exploration, blocking, observation, imagination, movement, expression, improvisation and memory recall.

If we have piqued your curiosity or if you have any burning questions, send them over to Faisal Mustaffa at rumahanakteater@gmail.com.



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Memanggil semua peminat-peminat drama! Dianjurkan oleh myHarapan dan kolektif seni persembahan Rumah Anak Teater (RAT Production), Projek Asas Teater ialah sebuah kursus intensif 3-minggu yang direka untuk melengkapkan penghibur-penghibur muda dengan kemahiran dan pengetahuan asas dalam bidang lakonan.

Di bawah pemerhatian jurulatih Ayam Fared dan Nam Ron, para peserta akan dibimbing dalam bidang masing-masing berdasarkan sukatan pelajaran yang dibina khas. Ini termasuk lawatan ke persembahan teater sebenar dan peluang untuk terlibat dalam produksi teater musikal sebenar!

Jika anda berfikir yang inilah semua yang melambangkan Projek Asas Teater, fikirkan sekali lagi. Malaysia mempunyai pelbagai bakat-bakat kreatif tersembunyi yang perlu dicungkilkan. Ini adalah objektif terkemuka projek ini, di samping menyediakan satu platform untuk para individu muda membangunkan kebolehan mereka, mempamerkannya kepada khalayak ramai dan melanjutkan kerjaya mereka dalam dunia hiburan.

Latihan akan bermula pada setiap hari Sabtu + Ahad dari 28hb Julai hingga 12hb Ogos di The Cabaret, PJ Live Art Theatre (hala tujuan). Pelakon bermula pada pukul 10 pagi hingga 6 petang.

Modul adalah seperti berikut:

Drama | Teknik pernafasan, projeksi vokal, eksplorasi tubuh, ‘blocking’, observasi, imaginasi, pergerakan, ekspresi, improvisasi dan ‘memory recall’.

Ingin tahu lebih lagi? Silalah hantar sebarang persoalan anda ke Faisal Mustaffa di rumahanakteater@gmail.com.

Rakaman Pementasan Teater BENG HOCK

Pementasan ini diadakan pada 6-8 Julai 2012 di KL Performing Arts Centre.

Ianya dilakonkan oleh Shufitri Sukardi, Azzad Mahdzir, Nurbaya Hassan, Azrul Azizi, Aloy Paradoks dan Amerul Affendi.

Pementasan ini diarahkan oleh Hariry Jalil.

Selepas Peristiwa: Tayangan Filem Jalan Pintas

Jalan Pintas adalah sebuah filem hasil produksi Rumah Anak Teater (RAT) dengan kerjasama Hyper Pictures. Filem ini diarahkan oleh Nam Ron serta Faisal Mustaffa sebagai produser dan Ayam Fared sebagai penulis.
Baca: Tulisan ini takde-la spoiler alert sangat. Bukan juga sebuah reviu. Ini adalah sebuah pendapat peribadi, bukan profesional, jauh sekali mencapai standard sebuah reviu filem. Ini sekadar komen ikhlas, pandangan dan perkongsian bersama kawan-kawan yang kita suka.

Lima poin aku tentang filem ‘Jalan Pintas’:

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About Jalan Pintas, Hassan Mutalib and existentialism

So a couple of weeks ago I went to The Actors Studio at Lot 10 to see Jalan Pintas, a film by Nam Ron. It was the opening night so we had the chance to have Hassan Mutalib, a renowned Malaysian film critic, in the audience.

The film was... okay. It's a very Aronofsky-esque film with some Memento feeling to it, and visibly low budgeted. The leitmotiv of the film is choice and the ever-popular quandary of "what if?", only with a slight twist: sometimes no matter which path you choose to take, life decides to be funny and fucks you up anyway.

Like every indie Malay film these days, it's ridden with other subplots such as the unemployment of fresh graduates in Malaysia, nepotism, xenophobia and of course, gangsterism. And since it's an indie movie without a FINAS license, expletives are in order, so much so that sometimes the actors just yell out a big fat 'babi!' for absolutely nothing which makes it seem forced and out of place. I know that Scarface is a thousand times more ribald, but Al Pacino expresses vulgarity in a way that is believable and even necessary while in Jalan Pintas, sometimes it just seems like the raison d'être of some of the swear words is merely to give a big 'fuck you' to the Malaysian censorship board.

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Tayangan Perdana Antarabangsa JALAN PINTAS di Festival Filem Fantastik Antarabangsa Puchon ke 16

19 Julai 2012: Untuk Siaran Serta-merta

Tayangan Perdana Antarabangsa JALAN PINTAS di Festival Filem Fantastik Antarabangsa Puchon ke 16

Filem drama kehidupan sosial, JALAN PINTAS telah dijemput untuk mengadakan tayangan perdana antarabangsanya bersempena dengan Festival Filem Fantastik Antarabangsa Puchon (PIFAN) ke 16 yang berprestij 19 hingga 29 Julai 2012.

PIFAN yang bermula pada 1997 menjadi simbol kepada bandar Bucheon yang dikenali sebagai pusat budaya yang menggabungkan animasi, kartun, permainan dan filem.

JALAN PINTAS, ditulis Ayam Fared dan diarahkan oleh Nam Ron dipaparkan di dalam seksyen Vision Express.

Nam Ron berkata, “Inilah filem yang menampilkan kehidupan sebenar berdasarkan realisme. Projek filem ini menyerlahkan bakat bintang filem tempatan yang sukar untuk mereka perolehi di filem-filem arus perdana.”

Sementara itu, Faisal Mustaffa selaku penerbit berkata, “Saya bersyukur kerana filem ini diterima di peringkat antarabangsa sungguhpun ia merupakan filem pertama terbitan saya dan Rumah Anak Teater. Saya juga berharap agar filem ini dapat diterima oleh penonton tempatan sekiranya ia ditayangkan di pawagam kelak.”

JALAN PINTAS merupakan sebuah cereka yang berkisar mengenai watak Bakar – seorang pemuda lepasan ijazah dalam jurusan kejuruteraan, juga seorang anak lelaki tertua dalam keluarga (yang tidak lagi berbapa), yang datang ke Kuala Lumpur dari kampung, untuk mencuba nasib demi menjalankan tanggungjawab terhadap keluarga – ibu dan seorang adik perempuannya.

Melalui JALAN PINTAS, kita melihat watak seorang pemuda yang biasa, yang boleh kita temui di mana-mana, yang menjadi mangsa kepada janji-janji delusi Kuala Lumpur. Menelusuri perjalanan yang Bakar tempuhi dalam ruang waktu satu hari – dari pagi ke petang, hanya dengan tujuan untuk menghadiri sesi temuduga; kita sebenarnya tanpa sedar sedang melihat sebuah kehidupan seorang manusia, yang terperangkap antara harapan dan beban, hingga akhirnya, disebabkan kenyataan, angan-angan berubah menjadi dendam.

Bakar yang sentiasa membiarkan pilihan-pilihan hidup bermain di ruang ciptaan kotak fikirnya, tanpa sengaja telah menghasilkan justifikasi kebarangkalian serta risiko yang bakal dihadapinya untuk setiap pilihan yang bakal dibuat. Dan pada akhirnya, Bakar, juga kita, tetap keliru; apakah kita yang terlalu bodoh dan dungu, atau takdir hidup memang seharusnya begitu?

JALAN PINTAS dibintangi oleh Auf Razak, Sharifah Amani, Beto Kusyairy dan Bront Palarae.

Filem ini juga bakal ditayangkan di Festival Filem Torino, Itali.

Untuk maklumat lanjut, sila hubungi:
Faisal Mustaffa / 017 200 2944

Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq8YC_f51j0
Blog - http://rumahanakteater.blogspot.com
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages/JLN-Pintas-Projek-Filem-KoKEN/177114705665431

19th July 2012: For Immediate release

JALAN PINTAS’s International Premiere at 16th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival

Malaysian social life drama, JALAN PINTAS has been invited to have its International premiere at the prestigious 16th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival(PIFAN) held from 19th to 29th July 2012.

Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival has grown by leaps since 1997 from its birth and became the most representative symbol of Bucheon City known as a mecca of the culture with combination of Animation, Cartoon, Game and Film moving forward to its change and creativity.

JALAN PINTAS, written by Ayam Fared and directed by Nam Ron, is featured in the Vision Express section.

Nam Ron said, "This is a feature film based on the real-life realism. This film project highlight the talents of local film stars difficult for them to get in mainstream films. "

Meanwhile, Faisal Mustafa as the produser said, "I am grateful that this film received at the international level, although it was the first film my issue and the Home Theatre. I also hope that this film can be received by local audiences when it screened in cinemas soon. "

JLN. PINTAS is a fiction that revolves around the character of Bakar, a young graduate degree in engineering, also the eldest in the family (whose father left the family), came to Kuala Lumpur from a village to try his luck in the exercise of his responsibility to the family-mother and a sister.

By taking a shortcut (which also the meaning of the title), we see the character of a typical ordinary young man, who became a victims of delusional promises of Kuala Lumpur. Tracing the course of a one-day journey of his life - from morning to evening, about him attending an interview. Without realising it, we saw a life of a man caught between hopes and responsibilities. Finally, due to the fact, his dreams had turned into a revenge fantasy.

Bakar, who always leave his choice of life linger in his mind, deliberately producing the probabilities and risks from every options that he will make. And finally, Bakar (who also represents us), left in his confusion state of mind. Are we being too stupid and dumb, or is it the destiny of life we are living in?

It stars Auf Razak, Sharifah Amani, Beto Kusyairy and Bront Palarae.

This highly anticipated film will be screened at Torino Film Festival, Italy.

For more information, please contact:
Faisal Mustaffa / 017 200 2944

Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq8YC_f51j0
Blog - http://rumahanakteater.blogspot.com
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages/JLN-Pintas-Projek-Filem-KoKEN/177114705665431

Teater Beng Hock ‘Kematian Adalah Kelanjutan Dari Kehidupan’

Kematian Teoh Beng Hock adalah misteri yang sehingga kini tidak terungkai, misteri kematian beliau perlu dihayati demi menegakkan kemanusiaan dan membasmi ketidakadilan yang terus membelenggu negara yang kononnya tersenarai antara negara paling selamat didunia ini.

Rumah Anak Teater sebuah kumpulan yang dianggotai oleh penggiat muda seni persembahan dengan iltizam memberi kesedaran kepada masyarakat tentang kesedaran diri, hak asasi dan keadilan membawakan Teater Beng Hock pada 6,7 dan 8 Julai lalu di Indicine, Kuala Lumpur Performing Art Centre (KLPAC) yang mana dipentaskan secara percuma sempena tahun ketiga tragedi berdarah yang berlaku kepada Beng Hock, pembantu khas wakil rakyat DAP Ean Yong Hian Wah yang dijumpai mati selepas jatuh dari ibu pejabat Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) di Shah Alam, Selangor.

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Pementasan Beng Hock

Kisah berlaku pada 16 Julai 2009 di mana Teoh Beng Hock dijumpai mati di Tingkat 5 Bangunan Masalam. Pada hari sebelumnya, Beng Hock dipanggil oleh SPRM Selangor di Tingkat 14 Bangunan yang sama sebagai saksi dalam membantu siasatan ke atas tuntutan yang dibuat majikannya yang merupakan seorang YB. Semasa siasatan, Beng Hock disoal siasat selama sekurang-kurangnya selama lapan jam oleh empat orang pegawai penyiasat dalam tiga sessi berbeza. Temubual saksi bertukar menjadi interogasi. Beng Hock tidak dibenarkan pulang. Telefon bimbitnya dirampas. Mereka mahukan akses kepada emel peribadi Beng Hock. Beng Hock disoalsiasat sepanjang malam hinggalah ke subuh. Beng Hock waras, bahagia bersama tunang tercinta yang berada di ambang perkahwinan. Kewarasan itulah membawa kepada kematian -- kematian daripada ketidakwarasan penyiasat.

In the face of injustice

Over the last week or so, many events have taken place in commemoration of Teoh’s death anniversary, including and most uniquely, a play in Malay by a group of young actors from Rumah Anak Teater. A multi-ethnic audience took in the play at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre in Sentul.

The play attracted a younger crowd that previously may not have been entirely familiar with the Teoh Beng Hock case. It also drove the point home that this was not necessarily a “Chinese” issue, but one that was relevant to all Malaysians.

The riveting scene in which he falls from a height was done superbly in the play. I was curious to see how the director would depict the moment of the “fall” – whether it would concur with the inquiry’s findings of a suicide, or otherwise.

This scene presented three MACC officers crowding around the person acting as the persona of Teoh, and amid some rough-handling and scuffling, he falls to his death. There were three possible options for Teoh’s death from the window of the 14th floor: suicide, intentional pushing, or an accidental “letting go”. The play does an excellent job of leaving the conclusion up to the audience to determine for themselves what truly happened at the end.

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OF KIDNAPPINGS & LEAPING OUT OF WINDOWS.

by: Hassan Muthalib

What is a nation without its narratives? Drama, comedy or tragedy - every story is worth telling. Many Malaysian stories have been told through film, theatre, and also poetry. There has been NADRAH, BUKIT KEPONG, LT. ADNAN, HATI MALAYA, and coming soon is TANDA PUTRA. But what about the stories about the common man?

Last week, I saw two interesting plays. The first was CULIK (Stor, Dewan Bahasa), staged by students of the Faculty of Film, Theatre & Animation, UiTM. A clever piece of storytelling of a kidnapping gone awry done in one act about two young men, deep in debt to an Ah Long and the PTPT… er, something or other. They kidnap a young girl and call her father for RM500,000. But the father isn’t interested and tells them to keep her for free! Ah, so Malaysia’s youths and their families are not living in Paradise after all! (contrary to what’s being spun in the mainstream papers, hee, hee!). Not bad, young students making a comment about the things that are wrong in the country. There’s still hope then, so I’ll postpone my migration to Mongolia.

Even more exciting was BENG HOCK (KLPAC). The show was packed. Ah Jib Gor would have been pleased. It was a crowd of Malaysians of all races and walks of life. Truly 1Malaysia! Directed by Hariry Jalil (one of my former students from Akademi Seni Kebangsaan), it was based on the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Teoh Beng Hock case who was alleged to have killed himself by jumping out of a window. The one-act play that was staged was about the interrogation of Beng Hock by the MACC (no, not Mack the Knife but close). Beng Hock was only a witness and was to be interviewed but they interrogated him like he was a criminal! Hey, don’t beat the red lights or you’re going to be next!

And, yes, the organizers were harassed by you-know-who, but the play was finally staged. Strange! They can put the story of NADRAH on stage (a non-citizen) but not one on Beng Hock, a Malaysian citizen (who had not committed a crime). Very strange, indeed! But anyway, what we saw was a comedy. No, no, not that it was funny. We really could feel the tensions coming through. The comedy was actually in the way the officers behaved and acted - a classic case of the inhumanity of man.

The play begins and ends with a woman coming upon a youth sitting morosely in a park. He had just lost his job – and to him, it was the end of the world. At the end of the play, the audience realizes that what Beng Hock had lost was more. He had lost his life – and left behind a fiancé and an unborn child. What would be the future, both mental and physical, of the child after it grows up? We realize that the story of Beng Hock is one of the narratives of the nation that needs to be told and retold for all time so that all Malaysians may remember the futile loss of a life that had been full of promise.

BENG HOCK will be staged at Penang PAC from the 13th to the 14th.July. News is, the tickets are all sold out. Never mind, we’ll wait for the next guy to ‘jump out of the window’ and a play about it!

Beng Hock Hadir Tanpa Suara

*Foto oleh Danny Lim

Minggu lalu bertempat di Indicine, Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center (KLPac) telah berlangsung sebuah pementasan teater yang berjudul “Beng Hock”. Mengambil kisah benar yang telah menggemparkan negara pada tahun 2009, teater arahan Hariry Jalil itu dengan beraninya cuba membongkar kebenaran di sebalik kisah tersebut berlandaskan fiksyen dan fantasi imaginasi pengarahnya.

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警今晚派员观察“明福”剧彩排

配合赵明福坠死三周年而举办的“明福”舞台剧惊传遭警方介入调查后，行动党沙登区国会议员张念群透露，警方今晚将派员来观察“明福”彩排，才决定是否准许该剧公演。

张念群表示，根据警察法令第27A条文，警方可基于“安全威胁”为由，阻止私人场合举行的活动。

“明福舞台剧将于今晚8点半在吉隆坡表演艺术中心（KLPAC）进行全面彩排，剧组演员都会穿上戏服彩排。”

她今日在一项记者会上说，“明福”舞台剧导演兼“舞台剧之家”负责人费沙慕斯达法（Faisal Mustaffa）日前被传召增江警局问话，建议警方来看他们的彩排，而警方也说会在看了彩排之后才决定此事。

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Teater Beng Hock: Mengapa polis ganggu penerbitnya?

KUALA LUMPUR, 5 JULAI: Tindakan polis memanggil penerbit teater “Beng Hock”,  Faisal Mustafa, ke Balai Polis Jinjang pada 3 Julai lalu menimbulkan tanda tanya ramai pihak. Ini kerana pementasan tersebut tidak memerlukan permit polis kerana ia dipentaskan secara percuma di tempat persendirian.

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Teater BENG HOCK dalam Wikipedia

Dengan rasa terharu, pementasan teater BENG HOCK yang dijadualkan pada 6-8 Julai di 2012 KLPac dan 13-14 Julai 2012 di PenangPAC telah dimuatkan dalam wikipedia Bahasa Melayu.

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Teater Beng Hock: Kesedaran masyarakat amat penting

KUALA LUMPUR, 1 JULAI: Kematian ‘misteri’ Teoh Beng Hock bukan isu kaum Cina, ia adalah soal keadilan sejagat yang perlu dihayati oleh semua kaum di negara ini. Justeru pementasan teater ‘Beng Hock’ penting bagi meningkatkan kesedaran masyarakat tentang keadilan, hak asasi dan jaminan keselamatan diri.

Tahun ini masuk tahun ketiga peristiwa berdarah yang berlaku terhadap Beng Hock, pembantu khas seorang wakil rakyat DAP, yang dijumpai mati selepas jatuh dari ibu pejabat Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) di Shah Alam, Selangor.

Menurut pengarah urusan Rumah Anak Teater, Faisal Mustafa, peristiwa itu menjadi tragedi berdarah yang dirasai terutamanya pihak keluarga yang mahu menuntut keadilan daripada pihak berkuasa.

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