



A Clockwork Orange
26 - 29 September 2019
Presented by Teater Ekamatra
Based on the novel by Anthony Burgess
Transcreated & Adapted into Malay by Zulfadli Rashid
Directed by Noor Effendy Ibrahim
Teater Ekamatra presents its take on Anthony Burgess's 1962 cult classic, A Clockwork Orange. Adapted by Zulfadli Rashid and directed by Noor Effendy Ibrahim, A Clockwork Orange takes place in a repressive, totalitarian state where ordinary citizens have fallen into a passive stupor of complacency, blind to the seething discontent amongst its youths.
Press
"Also, could I just add that I was especially enthralled by Izzul’s performance? He was everything in this show: sad, powerful, political, crafty, manipulative, pitiful and angry. Even when little depth was afforded to him (the source text also played up his characters to be such clean-cut villains or brainless droog), he played them all with such cadence."
- Dumbriyani
“A powerhouse ensemble of Shafiqhah Efandi, Suhaili Safari, Elnie S Mashari, Izzul Irfan, and Roslan Kemat peopled the damaged world of the play - and were often themselves the forces of damage. They stomped, rolled, barrelled, like projectiles on a pinball machine trying to avoid a Game Over in its dead centre [...]”
- Alfian Sa’at
“Thanks to the ensemble’s total commitment to their roles, from the shouts of ‘pain’ to the resonant sound of each slap that lands, one is afraid that the possibility of something truly awful happening is very real, and the line between performance and performer becomes blurred."
- Bakchormeeboy
“In this production’s interpretation of the infamously violent source material, the cast performs with both primal brutality and eerie fluidity [....] Control of body and physicality is strong across the board for this cast [...]”
- Idelle Yee, Centre 42