At 15, she asks, "I go to a Malay school. I don't speak Chinese. Am I still Chinese?" Then immediately after she decided with zeal, "Maybe I shouldn't be a Chinese then!"
Fifteen years later, all grown up and more experienced, she questions relationships : "What we have is not perfect, so this must be love!"
The Girl from Ipoh is Wong Mei Lee's life story in an hour and fifteen minutes. It is her life straight out ofa black and white 1960s film, her little world made out of those little voices singing in her mind and the loves of her life.
The Girl from Ipoh is Wong Mei Lee's life story in an hour and fifteen minutes. It is her life straight out ofa black and white 1960s film, her little world made out of those little voices singing in her mind and the loves of her life.
This is a Chinese make love story, told to redeem her Chinese roots.
The Girl from Ipoh explores the very issue which plagues every Malaysian. When is a Chinese not Chinese enough? When we speak English without sounding Chinese, does that mean that we are turning our backs our culture? Does liking everything Western mean a degradation of everything that is Asian?
A smorgasbord of laugh, love and life presented uniquely ala Pop Theatre.
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