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Hayat Pink Gajah Theatre (Singapore) 17–20 January 2018, 8pm
20 January 2018, 2pm & 5pm
Black Box, Centre 42
40 mins with no intermission
Fringe Commission ● World Premiere
Advisory Some Mature Content
Hayat Pink Gajah Theatre (Singapore) 17–20 January 2018, 8pm
20 January 2018, 2pm & 5pm
Black Box, Centre 42
40 mins with no intermission
Fringe Commission ● World Premiere
Advisory Some Mature Content
$27|$19*

*Concessions for students, NSFs, senior citizens and PWD card holders

Pink Gajah Theatre explores topics that tend to be “The Elephant in the Room”—topics that are socially and environmentally conscious but are not discussed enough.

Having just lost her 92-year-old mother, a woman finds herself alone and acutely aware of her own mortality.

After years of feeling pressured to be a successful woman—one striving to keep up in a male-dominated world, whilst maintaining her beauty as defined in a patriarchal world, a different instinct now kicks in. It is the desire to walk with God, to survive in a highly urbanised world and yet hold onto our ancient groundings.

Taking its title from the Arabic word for "life", Hayat incorporates ritual, texts and movement, and is an intimate and honest invitation to reflect on and celebrate the processes of ageing, living and dying. Performed by the mother-daughter duo, Ajuntha Anwari and Sharda Harrison, Hayat is a moving painting of a woman’s past, present and future.

Due to the nature of this work, only 30 audience-participants will be admitted per show.

Presented with support from Centre 42 and Cultural Matching Fund.

The specific theme in Amanda Heng’s Let’s Walk that jumped out at Pink Gajah Theatre was the harsh demand of universal beauty standards which are placed unto women. As she ages, a woman is made to feel the pressure of keeping up to these high, unrealistic demands of beauty and youth.

Hayat takes you to the next walk of life, where beauty within the ageing process and the preparation for death, is a walk worth walking.

Click here to find the route to Centre42.

Having just lost her 92-year-old mother, a woman finds herself alone and acutely aware of her own mortality.

After years of feeling pressured to be a successful woman—one striving to keep up in a male-dominated world, whilst maintaining her beauty as defined in a patriarchal world, a different instinct now kicks in. It is the desire to walk with God, to survive in a highly urbanised world and yet hold onto our ancient groundings.

Taking its title from the Arabic word for "life", Hayat incorporates ritual, texts and movement, and is an intimate and honest invitation to reflect on and celebrate the processes of ageing, living and dying. Performed by the mother-daughter duo, Ajuntha Anwari and Sharda Harrison, Hayat is a moving painting of a woman’s past, present and future.

Due to the nature of this work, only 30 audience-participants will be admitted per show.

Presented with support from Centre 42 and Cultural Matching Fund.

RELATION TO THEME

The specific theme in Amanda Heng’s Let’s Walk that jumped out at Pink Gajah Theatre was the harsh demand of universal beauty standards which are placed unto women. As she ages, a woman is made to feel the pressure of keeping up to these high, unrealistic demands of beauty and youth.

Hayat takes you to the next walk of life, where beauty within the ageing process and the preparation for death, is a walk worth walking.

$27 | $19*

*Concessions for students, NSFs, senior citizens and PWD card holders

Fringe Commission ● World Premiere

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Pink Gajah Theatre explores topics that tend to be “The Elephant in the Room”—topics that are socially and environmentally conscious but are not discussed enough.

Getting Here

Click here to find the route to Centre42.