REVIEW: How to Throw a Chinese Funeral
Kenangan Wangi (Sweet Reminiscence) Alamak! It’s such a treat to hear authentic Manglish at The Basement Theatre. For the uninitiated, Manglish is the ‘rojak’ (fruit salad) combination of English-Malay-Cantonese-Hokkien-Hindi-Tamil words that typically pepper everyday Malaysian conversations. And How to Throw a Chinese Funeral’s dialogue epitomises this Malaysian vernacular down to its core. The play captures a familiar slice of Malaysian […]