The Actors Studio is on the lookout for someone to join our team of quirky characters. We are in need of a Box Office Assistant with the following requirements:

1) This position entails helping to run the box office, promoting
and selling tickets for shows.
2) Excellent people skills.
3) Good command of English.
4) Willingness to learn.
5) Willing to help when assistance is needed in other job functions.
6) Flexible

Interested? Give us a buzz at 03 2093 0400 or e-mail us at admin@theactorsstudio.com.my

Exploration of Theatre Arts through Pleasure & Pressure
A Workshop by Pentas Project
Facilitated by Loh Kok Man
Creativity is not only a talent, but also a habit, an interest and a kind of education. From early stage of learning how to think and how to judge, we will help you recognize yourself and the group with many lively activities of theatre. Through pleasure in “play”, your hidden talent will then demonstrate its broadest freedom, creativity and imagination.
Fees: RM50.00 per participant
Time: 2.00pm - 5.00pm
Date: 24th May (Sat)

THE ACTORS STUDIO
presents
STUDENT STAGE
Coordinated by John Shebat de Silva
May Showcase
Theme: ‘Superheroes!’
This month, TAS GreenHall celebrates the release of the many superhero blockbusters on the silver screen. Be it a sketch, a presentation of an exerpt of a dialogue from superhero film, songs from the films, etc…
but remember, bring your own props, costumes, make-up, and instruments!
Date: 17th May (Saturday)
Performance Criteria: anything to do with your favourite superheroes!
Showtime: 8.00pm
Installation and Sound Check for performers: 4.30pm onwards
Admission: minimum donation of RM5.00
Venue: The Actors Studio GreenHall,
Light Street, Penang
for those interested in performing, kindly contact John at
012 - 451 9304 or email shebatdesilva@yahoo.co.uk
johndesilva.blogspot.com / theactorsstudio.com.my

KANYADAAN

Presenter: The Actors Studio & The Primetime Theatre India
Dates & Times: 20-24 May @ 8.30pm & 25 May @ 3pm
Tickets: RM60, RM40 & RM20 (for students)
Venue: TAS @ BSC

This award winning play, by one of India’s best known playwrights, is one of his most powerful human dramas. The story of a daughter’s transformation into a wife and a mother, the play is charged with significant social and moral questions, which are deeply thought provoking, and to which there are no easy answers. A young woman from a politically active family that regards itself as progressive and liberal, decides to marry a socially inferior, but talented man. Tendulkar explores the texture of modern life and social change in India through the forces this marriage unleashes. This gripping play, which is also laced with humour, is charged with an undercurrent of violence, uncertainties and anger, and concerns itself with questions that are crucial to all societies grappling with change and social barriers.

This is a formal yet informal report. Premiered in 2006 at Kuala Lumpur as part of the “Break-ing: Pentas Theatre Collaboration Project”, it now continues its international tour to Japan and Singapore in 2008. Repot (Mind + Mine) humorously explores the situations of irony in the Malaysian lingo.
If they could go back in time, if they could walk into the world of P.Ramlee, if they could tell you and me - language is only a strange kind of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah….
Date: 24th May @ 8.30pm & 25th May @ 3pm
Tickets: RM20
Venue: TAS @ Greenhall, Penang

Presenter: The Actors Studio

The Actors Studio presents Sukania Venugopal as SYBIL.
A play in 2 acts based on the book ‘No Dram of Mercy’ by Sybil Kathigesu
With Doppo Narita as Yoshimura. Adapted by U-En Ng

Directed by Dato’ Faridah Merican
Artistic Director Joe Hasham

Sybil, her husband, and the Captain (her Resistance contact) listen one evening to devastating news of British defeat throughout the peninsula. Suspicion is rife, Japanese collaborators are present in every town, and the feared Kempetai—the Japanese Military Police that is answerable only to itself—is beginning to take an interest in the small town. Sybil, however, refuses the Captain’s advice to flee to the jungle, and instead redoubles her efforts to thwart the Japanese. Before long, Dr Kathigasu is arrested on suspicion of aiding the resistance, and Sybil’s arrest follows soon after.

The story of a national hero, never before told in the form of performing arts! Sybil…

Date & Times: 12- 22 June @ 8.30pm Sundays: 3pm

Venue: TAS @ BSC

Paula Vogel’s HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE

Growing up in a family with thin, penetrable personal boundaries, Li’l Bit becomes the victim of an incestuous intimacy - Uncle Peck does not only teach his teenage niece to drive, but sexualises her childhood as well. Narrated through a series of bittersweet flashbacks, HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE is an honest, coming-of-age account on forgiveness, healing and growth – and how one can find light even from the unhealthiest of relationships. HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE was first produced in 1997 in New York City and has since been awarded, in addition to the Pulitzer: the Obie, the Drama Desk Award, the New York Drama Critics’ Award, the Outer Circle Critics Award, and the Lucille Lortel Award.

Dates & Times: 4th – 7th June 2008 @ 8.30 pm &
7th – 8 June 2008 @ 3.00 pm
Venue: The Actors Studio @ BSC
Tickets: RM33 (Adults); RM22 (Students, senior citizens & the disabled)

Dewan Filharmonik, PETRONAS, Kuala Lumpur
presents

Join Farid Ali as he reveals the range and scope of the Gambus. He will take this lovely instruments, with its origins in Middle Eastern culture to the other side of the world exploring the rhythms and melodies of South America.
Dates & Times: 21 and 22 April @ 8.30pm
Tickets: RM20, RM40, RM65, RM85
Free Gambus Demo – Thursday, 17 April, 5.30pm
For more info please log on to www.malaysianphilharmonic.com

Presenter: ACT 3 International

Dates & Times: 27-30 May @ 10am, 31 May & 1 June @ 4pm
Tickets: RM35* for child (up to age 12), RM50* for adult
*Prices exclude RM2 AXCESS Fee
(Reduced rates for family of four, schools and groups)
Venue: TAS @ BSC

Be mesmerised by Omar Alvarez’s masterful manipulation of large fuzzy puppets that relate a series of non-verbally funny and heartwarming stories about love, justice, solidarity and the world around them. Omar’s unique, sensitive and captivating style lies in the way he poetically combines powerful music, profound gestural expression and supple movement to create a theatrical of illusions that is delightful and magical, yet familiar and authentic. In this world that the Argentinean puppeteer creates, the seemingly impossible becomes real and concrete, much like what goes on in the unfathomable imagination of a child. It is an exquisite world the young can identify with as poignant childhood moments beautifully unfold before their eyes.

Actorlympics - Idol
As seen on TV… but dirtier!!!
How will Malaysia vote?
Presenter: Vision Works Sdn. Bhd.
FEATURING
Ida Nerina, Afdlin Shauki, Douglas Lim, Harith Iskander,
Jit Murad, Joannna Bessey, Gavin Yap
Dates & Times: 2 – 6 April @ 8.30pm
Tickets: RM52, RM47 (Students and Sr. Citizens RM27 on Wed & Thur only)