Mixtape for Maz
Sound Design, Lighting Design; Collateral Design
Tung Jit Yang,
Perempuan Productions
2023Written in English and Northern Malay, the play tells the story of Maz and Edi, teenage siblings who return to rural North Malaysia in the late 1990s after spending years growing up abroad. Alongside the everyday pressures of secondary school, they must navigate the clash between their Western influences—early Internet culture, ’90s music, and video games—and the conservative society surrounding them.
As a memory play, the performance embraced a non-realistic approach—a bare set, minimal lighting, and the use of space objects as external props created room for the audience’s imagination. Drawing inspiration from the recurring presence of a radio in the narrative, live foley was employed to produce selective sound effects, bringing imagined objects to life. Archival radio recordings were woven in to deepen the atmosphere of nostalgia.
Photos (Rehearsals) by Abdul Sami Shahid.
Best Music/Sound Design—Bryan Chang
Performance Page (CloudJoi)