03/11/2019
演出就在下个礼拜。。。来看戏！
Malam Takdir
(马来语戏剧)
主办单位： Reka Art Space
合作伙伴： Cendana Foundation
编导： 朱锡添
编剧： Johan Othman
演员： Hilyati Ramli and Riz Zolkepli.
制作经理: 陈福庆
日期/时间: 7, 8, 9 Nov 2019 at 8.30pm
9, 10 Nov 2019 at 3.00pm
普通券：RM35
学生券（出示学生证）：RM25
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洽询 : 012-4282711
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“Malam Takdir”是音乐作曲家Johan Othman编写的新剧本。最初编写的是英语版本的歌剧，但是在2019年5月， 由剧场人Karen Lai和Lawrence Lim进行首次读剧之后，Johan决定以马来语重新编写这个剧本。
“Malam Takdir”创作灵感来自Mahabharata的其中一则故事。阐述天生失明的国王Dhritarashtra和一位有预见能力的亲信Sanjaya，两人之间的对话。 这场对话发生在史诗般的Kurukshetra War爆发之前，而这场战争的结果就是5位Pandava兄弟将杀死100位Kaurava 兄弟们。因此Sanjaya希望国王设法停止这场战争，避免这悲惨的结局发生。。。 但是国王相信，任何事情都不能改变命运的安排，他决定让一切顺其发生。。。
MALAM TAKDIR
The play tells the story of a blind king who is reluctant to stop an impending war that will see the death of all his sons. His advisor tries to change his mind. What follows is an argument over fate and how it affects human actions.
CHARACTERS
Raja Buta: A blind king, embittered by his fate, manipulates the events in his life to secure the throne for his eldest son.
Pengiring: The king’s loyal and trusted advisor - gifted with divine vision - who tries to get the king to stop a war that will result in the annihilation of his sons.
SYNOPSIS:
The king’s advisor approaches the king, urging him to stop a predestined war between the king’s 100 sons and his 5 nephews, which will end with the death of all his 100 sons.
The king, born blind, says the war can’t be stopped and goes on to ask about the Pipalla tree – a symbol for illusion. He laments that he is fated never to see this tree.
The advisor chides him for blaming fate, reminding him that he has power, wealth and is blessed with 100 sons. Therefore, he has no reason to blame fate for anything.
He goes on to tell the king that the negotiation for peace with the king’s nephews has failed. The king’s eldest son had rejected his cousin’s modest request for land to be returned to them.
The king merely replies that he trusts his eldest son.
But the advisor reminds the king that his sons never liked their cousins. His eldest son had always regarded his oldest cousin as a threat to his inheritance of the throne. It is the king’s own son actually, who wants the war.
The advisor asks the king to consider the circumstances of his sons’ birth – that they were born of a single lump of flesh, which was divided into 100 parts and placed into 100 urns from which they grew. And asks if his sons could indeed triumph over his nephews, who were born of the seeds of gods.
An argument follows.
• To the king, his nephew is at fault for having gambled away his lands, his wife and himself in a game of dice.
• To the advisor, the king should have stopped the game, knowing his nephew’s weakness.
• To the king, it is not his position to stop that which is already destined to happen.
• To the advisor, the king had the power to right a wrong, for it was the humiliation of his nephew that was the catalyst for the devastation to come.
• To the king, it is precisely his nephews’ own weakness that is to blame for the events that are unfolding.
• The advisor asks the king how he knows, that if he acts to stop the war, his action will not become part of fate?
In a moment of introspection, the king ponders the significance of that question and wonders if mankind’s belief that fate can be changed, is an illusion, like the Pipalla tree.
He appeals to the advisor – who is gifted with divine vision that enables him to see events from a distance - to narrate to him the war as it unfolds.
The advisor enables his gift of divine vision. He sees the king’s 3rd nephew – the skilled archer - hesitate and fall to the ground. And then, a deity appears …
Excitedly, the king expresses that he too wants to see what is happening, hoping to witness a change of fate.
What the king sees instead, is his 3rd nephew - the skilled archer who fell - finding his purpose to go to war. And with this resolve, he stands up.
The fate of the king’s 100 sons is thus sealed.
