Moka Mocha Ink

Set against the backdrop of an ever-evolving Malaysian capital, a contemplative protagonist navigates the emotional debris of a dissolved relationship through a series of surreal, elegiac recollections that blur the line between historical memory and psychological dreamscape.

What is passion? What is pleasure? Actors and non-actors contemplate questions of the heart and play a game of word association, ruminating on definitions. And when words are inadequate, they employ movement. Drunk on life, art and a youthful honesty, characters reveal their inner worlds, relating a generation’s sensibilities.

Two women meet weekly to devise a performance on becoming their fictional characters. In this process personal stories co-exist with written texts, that leads to issues pertaining identity, nostalgia and longing.