Klue, Doh! (Preview)

It's been many moons since I last saw a play, so I bought a ticket to the preview of Klue, Doh! playing at the Black Box at MAP, Solaris Dutamas until 17 December. Friday night jam + rain = horrendous traffic on BOTH sides of the Sprint highway, which I don't see a lot of. I think if I had stuck to the Semantan route, I would've been very late, but I didn't as I took another route there. Only had enough time to collect my ticket (which had my name printed on as I bought it online), and grab a drink at Chatime (I can't explain it) before going in, and they were running a little late (preview night, after all).

One Murder. Two Perspectives. Three Weapons. An original production that covers lust, betrayal and deceit, much like a theater-version of CSI with its one of its kind twist of Asian setting and touches.

Being Australian and Malaysian made, Klue, Doh! intends to experiment with the art of voyeurism within the confinement of the domestic space, where it takes you out of your comfort zone, and threshed right into a rollercoaster ride that baffles at every turn. Up staging this artistry are our very own Anne James, Davina Goh, Nabihan Yaacob, JD Menon, Terence Conrad and Jon Chew.

I actually had to turn the camera
upside down to take this

When you collect your ticket, they stamp either "SUSPECT" or "WITNESS" on your arm. This is because half the audience will be watching only one part of the play at one time, only to switch and watch the other half after the intermission (which they use to reset the stage).

More after the jump...

As one of the "witnesses", our group saw the half of the play that took place in the study first - where the maid was busy cleaning up the crime scene, etc. The other half of the play took place in the living room. In retrospect, I wish I saw the living room half first as I'm pretty sure that the ending is similar to Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap (which, by the way, is still running in England after nearly 60 years).

There's a lot of puns and puerile humour in this show - character names like Jackson Mo Les Ting and Gangbang the maid would crack some people up the first time. It had some funny lines and delivery. Davina as the very ah lian fiancee Charity Ho Mun Mun was alright until she tried to have a phone conversation in Cantonese, which I can't quite decipher. Not that my Cantonese is any better, but anyone who knows her personally (the most I can say is that we went to college together and took a few of the same classes) would know that she's not as cheena as she comes across on stage.

It's not often that you go to a show (in KL, anyway) where half the audience sees different halves of the play in an unspecified order, so I have to give them props for that idea.

To be frank, I have no idea who murdered the Dato first (not who actually done it, because everyone had motive and had their way of getting back at him), and I would appreciate it if anyone can confirm it for me via e-mail I would be so grateful.