Imperial MNight 2008- Kawan

Blurb
"KAWAN" is a story about infinitely more than friendship.

Set chiefly in 2007, "Kawan" is the tale of how Priya, the obnoxious medic, is asked by her father, Old Jon, to discover where his old friends – Nordin (a.k.a Din) and Siong – have gone as he has lost touch with them over the span of forty years. To back up his sudden request, he tells Priya the story of his exuberant childhood days set in the late 1950's in a series of flashbacks throughout the play.

Priya – still a good daughter despite her argumentative exterior - obeys her father's wishes and sets off to find her father's old friends. During her mission, she stumbles upon a few rather colourful characters: Mat, a comical impoverished Rempit, and Boon, a dastardly Ah Beng, all of whom have a story to tell in their own ways and authentic accents.

Subsequently, in the strangest of ways and in the shortest of times, all three lives begin to intertwine when they get caught up in a web of arguments based on grave misunderstandings and social class disunity.

How they resolve it… well, that's just another part of the story you're going to have to wait for.