Salusuah

Salusuah is a monologue performed by Gani Karim and directed by Jeremiah Choy. They are the playwrights for this play.

Richard brought me to watch this play last night.

It touched me.

I am not familiar with the delicate dance performances that Gani had done but I really appreciate and could feel that Gani observed every little movements that he made. This left me with the impression that Gani had put in a lot of hardwork and effort in training his body movements.

I like how Gani used different methods of putting on the traditional Malay sarong to show different characters during his dance.

To me, Gani seems to tell a story that how he survive and live on through hidden, dark and confused emotions. Gani seems to be someone who isn't himself, or at least he feels so.

His religious belief became the pillar for his will to press on. He always remember what his Mak had told him:-

"rely on God and not on men"

Although Gani didn't say "I have faith in God" explicitly, from how he moved his body into the prostration pose; his recitation of his holy scripture; even to how the lightings were done, make a stronger statement that his faith for his God is unwavering.

That faith hold him on.

Religion in this play is so beautifully integrated, I couldn't help but feel the deepest respect that Gani have for his belief.

I also like how he played with the different sarong by folding them and making them symbolising his own birth; his grandmother's death and eventually the burial of his father.

The last scene, seeing how the sarong eventually submerged into the water, representing the caving in grave was simply the moment (Richard! Sorry I use your word! =X).

Very nice performance.