Logamaya is a drama group founded in February 2007 by Tan Zi Hao under the art organization A.O.A. (avant-gardism, orientalism, aestheticism). Logamaya is the first sub-group of the organization, specialized in theatre.
'Logamaya' is the Malay translation of 'mirage' - an optical phoenomenon caused by the refraction of light, but to be perceived as reflective, too. Refraction and reflection are what we do, or what we aim to do; to distort or to bend our subjects and reflect them to our audience. Our notion is to enact acts that will create awareness, so to extricate the community from their ugliness which now has been misdefined as a common error that is inevitable. Hence by nature, surroundings and happenings are our muse, we interfuse them with our art and personal ideas.
In terms of concepts, ours are generally dark and satiric, we contextualize our topics with the utmost disgust of the naked community. This drama group is also formed to cultivate the artistic drama scene, hoping to imply the local identity into contemporary stage acts, to see our cultural diversity as one whole matter, and experiment with different executions in theatrical works. Started off as an amateur group, we learn through experiments and performances; it can be experimental at times, but, (not to be mistaken as rebellious art aficionados) we trace back of what the scene has left, and try to affix those elements onto our performances.
The challenge is tough; the search of Malaysian identity in theatre and the method of coping it with avant-garde ideas.
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