In his desire to storytell, most often Khairul would prefer to use my own words and stories. At any point of time he would have a list of concepts and stories mulling over in his head; here are the stories which he has found very strong impetuses to shared and produced as fully staged productions.
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Burying Children [2023]
Who mandates the life of a child?
Set in a world with a zero child policy as an answer to overpopulation and conflicts over resources, Burying Children follows the lives of a nomadic community of women who leave the City in protest, and seek refuge back in mother nature. Examining processes of burying children within ourselves or abandoning the very idea of bearing children in a world without hope for the future, this ensemble dance theatre work follows several stories in search of freedom, reprieve, or revenge.
Discord of Discourse [2019]
Discord of Discourse is an exploration of languages in our mind. How structures of experiences create our personal realities. Interaction among others then become a constant clash of realities where the endeavour to understand each other forces us to create, destroy and augment our previous beliefs and comprehensions in order to attain mutual perception.
A story of two would be lovers, a linguistic anthropologist, Jean and a quantum physicist, Jean. After they manoeuvre the different pronunciations of their names spelled the same way, a curiosity sparks between these professors in the same university though seemingly opposite worlds grounded from their professions. Can their differing understandings of reality learn to see and think through another point of view? Or are we doomed to only know what’s within our own minds?
Human+ [2017]
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Discord of Discourse [2015]
Discord of Discourse is an exploration of language, signs, symbols, semiotics and how communication of structures create our own personal realities. Interaction among others then becomes a constant clash of realities where the endeavor to understand each other forces us to create, destroy and augment our previous beliefs and comprehensions in order to attain mutual perception.
This is a love story of Jean & Alice.
Human+ [2014]
What lies beyond humanity?
Through secret breakthroughs in neurotechnology, scientists have been able to implant hard disk drives into skulls linked to the brain. These Head Drives grant photographic memory and the ability to share thoughts, emotions and information via the internet.
Their existence and technology has been kept a secret until now. The implemented consider themselves a whole new species beyond humanity; the Human+.
The next leap in evolution is in our hands; we created the Human+ while destroying ourselves. Humanity won't exist when we evolve from it.
Are we doomed to contrive our own extinction?
Fracture: The End, The Middle & The Beginning [2012]
Fracture is a performance on stage, on screen and in your head, inviting you to imagine, break, build and rebuild reality again and again because if you are built on your memories, who are you without them?