They All Die At The End

First in-person play...also perhaps my first time back at KLPAC since the before times? 

Got a last minute(ish) ticket to the final Sunday night show, which is out of the norm for me as someone who would've gone on opening night or something before, but oh wells. But the entire run sold out, so good on them. I also wasn't expecting to see anyone of note to attend this last show, but Patrick Teoh, wife and kid showed up. (It was me and a bunch of older people who also noticed that he was among us) 

Got there with some time before the doors opened and the mad rush to get a seat started (free seating). I felt like I ended up sitting with a school rombongan section of the audience?

They All Die At The End is a brown boy fantasia that tells the story of love, family and identity. What does it mean to be a Malaysian Indian man in 2023? What did it mean to be one in the past? What does it mean to love, to exist and to live as a brown man?

Combining poetic text, dialogue, music and movement, the show explores painful realities and joy-filled spaces. Presented in collaboration with klpac, the devised production presents a world where brown men can be who they want to be and say what they want to say.

In all my years of attending these things, it's true that there hasn't been an all Indian male cast in a production like this (that I or anyone else knew of). 

It's all vignettes, so if you don't like one, just wait for the next one. Have to like how they worked the national anthem requirement at the start of the show which kinda cracked me up. The only audience participation this show had was merely arm raising to questions projected unto the big screen, which is more my kind of audience participation (if you know my history of unwanted participation in live shows...). The Tamil spoken in the show I just gotta let wash over me. They also weren't kidding when they said the show was for mature audiences, but I don't want to get into details. 

I didn't hate the show, the headache I had hindered my enjoyment. 

It was a 2 hour show (+15 minutes for intermission).