![]() ![]() ![]() In an instant, the intelligent Kancil is caught in a moral dilemma and pays the price for being way too smart for her own good, unable to use her smarts when it’s needed the most. Presented by new collective Zeugma as a ‘live’ performance-meets-multimedia visual-and-sound onslaught, playwright Zulfadli Rashid revisits the well-known lighthearted exploits of the cheeky Sang Kancil, as she outwits her mostly larger forest neighbours who also pop up onstage, from the monkey, carabao and elephant to the crocodile, tiger and snail (incidentally the only one to have outwitted her, albeit unintentionally).īut this show takes it a step further, with the mousedeer now confronted by more formidable opponents: “Metal beasts” or construction machines encroaching on the animals’ bubble of a forest in the name of development. Unlike the tales of yore, in the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival production The Chronicles Of One And Zero: Kancil, the popular mousedeer is now a female - and undergoing a midlife crisis of sorts on her birthday. The same goes for the popular Malaysian and Indonesian stories about that crafty creature known as Sang Kancil. SINGAPORE - From television shows such as Grimm to movies such as Maleficent, revisionist takes on fairytales and folktales have been popular of late. ![]()
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