[Performing
Arts] Klpac Performances August 2014 Listing! Highlight: A Streetcar Named Desire!
AUGUST 2014
AUGUST 7-10: A
Streetcar Named Desire
AUGUST 15-17: Music
From Movies & Musicals 5
AUGUST 22-23: Concert
Just For You
AUGUST
28-31: Who is Your Osama? And other short playlets
AUGUST 30 – 31: Merdeka Concert
7-10 AUGUST 2014
: A Streetcar Named Desire
Presenter:
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The Actors Studio
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Director:
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Joe Hasham OAM
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Genre:
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Dance Drama
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Date & Time:
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August 7 – 9 @ 8.30pm, August 10 @ 3.00pm
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Venue:
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Pentas1, klpac
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Ticket Prices
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RM 100, RM80,
RM60, RM40 (Students, Disabled, TAS Card member)
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Synopsis
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Blanche DuBois is
a fading, but still attractive, Southern belle whose pretensions to virtue
and culture only thinly mask alcoholism and delusions of grandeur. Blanche
arrives at the apartment of her younger sister Stella Kowalski in New
Orleans. The local transportation that gets her there includes a streetcar
route named Desire. The steamy, urban ambiance is a shock to Blanche’s
nerves. Stella, who fears the reaction of her husband Stanley, welcomes
Blanche with some trepidation.
In contrast to
both the self-effacing and deferential Stella and the pretentious refinement
of Blanche, Stanley Kowalski is a force of nature: primal, brutish and
sensual. He dominates Stella in every way and is physically and emotionally
abusive.
The arrival of
Blanche upsets her sister and brother-in-law’s relationship dynamics,
resulting in a series of emotional, physical and sexually abusive
confrontations.
The story ends
with Blanche suffering a nervous breakdown and Stanley having her committed
to a mental institution.
HISTORY 1947-2013 | Tennessee Williams’ A
STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
A Streetcar Named
Desire was written by American Playwright Tennessee Williams and was first
performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. It subsequently went on to receive
the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The Broadway production was directed by
Elia Kazan and starred Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter and Karl
Malden.
The London
production opened in 1949 with Bonar Colleano, Vivien Leigh and Renee
Asherson. It was directed by Laurence Olivier.
In 1951 a film
adaptation of the play won 4 Academy Awards.
A Streetcar Named
Desire is considered one of the greatest classics of Western Theatre and it
has been the subject of much debate, re-stagings and adaptations the world
over.
2014 | Joe Hasham’s A STREETCAR NAMED
DESIRE the ballet
There have been
several ballet adaptations over the years. Some successful, some not. The
point of difference between Joe Hasham’s adaptation and those that have come
before will be a convergence of dance genres that includes Malaysian/Japanese
collaboration.
The role of
Blanche DuBois will be played by a prima ballerina and her performance will
be totally classical ballet oriented; the rest of the characters will be
performing a ‘la contemporary and/or modern.
This decision
stems from the fact that the character of Blanche Dubois is frail, brittle,
cultured and refined in comparison to everyone else around her.
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15-17 AUGUST 2014:
Music from Movies & Musicals
5
Presenter:
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The Philharmonic Society of Selangor
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Genre:
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Concert
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Date & Time:
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August 15 - 16 @ 8.30pm, August 16 – 17 @
3.00pm
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Venue:
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Pentas 1, klpac
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Ticket Prices
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RM 53, RM38
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Synopsis
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TBC
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22-23 AUGUST
2014: Concert Just For You
Presenter:
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Pianoforte
School of Music
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Genre:
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Concert
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Date & Time:
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August 22 @ 8.00pm, August 23 @ 7.30pm
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Venue:
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Pentas1, klpac
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Ticket Prices
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TBC
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Synopsis
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TBC
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28-31 AUGUST
2014: Who is Your Osama? And other short playlets
Presenter:
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Stray
Factory &klpac
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Genre:
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Comedy Theatre
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Date & Time:
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August 28 – 31 @ 8.30pm, August 30 – 31 @
3.00pm
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Venue:
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Indicine, klpac
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Ticket Prices
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RM38, RM28 (students, disabled, TAS Card
member)
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Synopsis
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Rajini Hassan, a struggling Indian actor
finds a change of fortune when he is cast as an infamous terrorist on a
Hollywood Production. Inspite of an accent too cute to be violent he is
stopped by immigration services and accidentally finds himself responsible
for a possible world war.
A Serio-Comedy about the luckiest man alive
- till he grew out his beard.
Spread over 3 years, 2 continents with 1
actor in 30 Minutes
This will be followed by 3 of Stray
Factory's short plays.
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AUGUST 30 - 31 Merdeka Concert
Presenter:
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klpac Orchestra
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Genre:
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Concert
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Date & Time:
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August 30 @ 8.30pm, August 31 @ 3.00pm
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Venue:
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Pentas2, klpac
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Ticket Prices
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RM 33, RM23
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Synopsis
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TBC
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Published by
WLJack. (based on official press
release issued to wljack.com & loong-updates.blogspot.com)
