25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New Straits Times
#SHOWBIZ: 'Let Me Go' explores Malaysian youth's dream of making it in Hollywood
KUALA LUMPUR: A new play that tells the story of a young Malaysian's dream of making it big in Hollywood is set to debut in the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPAC), here soon.
Directed by Christopher Ling and co-written by Mark Beau de Silva and Dhakshayni Jegatheeswaran, it is Let Me Go, the story of Nira, who has always dreamed of going to Hollywood someday.
However, as she prepares to leave Malaysia, family drama erupts between her panicked mother, diplomatic father, and nosy aunt.
As Nira reflects on the hurdles of local fame and global ambition, she is torn between the life she knows and the future she craves.
This heartwarming, hilarious, and at times hauntingly real tale about identity, ambition, and the price of chasing stardom asks audiences the question, can a young Malaysian woman truly chase her dream in a world that often tells her not to?
Starring Dhakshayni, Lakshmi Ahrunagiry, Perassath, and Tania Ashwini, it is the eighth production practicum under the TUTAS Bachelor of Performing Arts conservatory degree programme.
This programme is a three-year conservatory degree programme by The Actors Studio and Taylor's University.
An entry by audition only programme, it enables students from Malaysia to learn from award-winning lecturers with hands-on industry experience and full access to KLPAC's facilities.
The play will be staged at 8pm and 3pm on July 12 and 13.
