Last Friday, which was on Merdeka day, my husband and I went to this show at Istana Budaya titled "Tanah Akhirku". Thank you to UNMC Literature and Drama Society for the free tickets! They were so nice trying to book the tickets for us even when it was fully booked on other dates. We had fun! And which Malaysian doesn't like free tickets? 😂
We honestly thought that the tickets were for the 2nd floor since they were the cheapest ticket (RM40), but to our surprise, we were seated at the stalls, which is very near to the stage and at the very center! Imagine how excited we were when we first seated at the hall. 😂 I've never seated that close and center like that before at Istana Budaya.
Anyway, I love all the actor and actress in the play. They were so good! Aerel Zafrel wasn't supposed to be at the center of the poster tho, he is not the main character to this story, Lim Mei Fen was. You go girl! Girl power.
The storyline was okay. Chinese 60% was in Mandarin, but they provided subtitle on the screen. But to be honest, there were nothing special or impactfull to the show. I was expecting more on the creativity part. The stage was okay but not that grand or beautiful. The sound effect was too loud.
"Tanah Akhirku" is a merdeka theatre about unity and patriotism, set against the backdrop of a Chinese tin mining community in Nanyang. In Nanyang, the coolies from China and India are being exploited to make money for the British colonists while the local Malay royalties who defend the interest of native Malays too suffer from "power grab" by the British. Oppressed under the "divide and rule" tactic of the cunning British colonist, the people of different backgrounds who speak different languages put aside their differences, prioritize harmony to win against racism, injustice and dominance of corrupted power. It shows different ethnic struggles in Malaya during British colonists and how they struggle to show that national spirit should be given more attention than racial ties to maintain harmony in Malaya and to defend their fate from foreign powers.Website //
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