Fermented Roti Canai project

"There will be no shortage of roti canai at least...that I can assure you."

- Datuk Shafie Apdal (Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs)
The Star, 9 January 2008

What a quotation! The shortage of cooking oil few days back then, with some fraudulent reports saying that there would be shortage of flour, in which that caused tension; that caused our minister to make that peculiar statement (the fact is that the millers were producing more non-general-purpose flour to suffice the increasing needs hence the negligence on general-purpose flour). Rationally when roti canai is made out of flour, in this case, general-purpose flour and cooking oil, the minister needs to clarify the situation by stating such sort paradigm, it is funny to speak as if Malaysians can't live without roti canai. The statement did opine a confession though, despite us being ascetic to our gluttony, mamak denizens like us really can't survive without roti canai.

Considering Stanislavski's Magic If and being severely imaginative: what If there is a serious shortage of roti canai? That is where Fermented Roti Canai project came about. The project aimed to cultivate a new experimental local theatre scene. Logamaya as a sub-group of AOA, we too aimed to create new structure and context in theatre, experiments are then pivotal. We are searching for new innovations, new movements and new nomads who are still wandering in the infinite expanse of theatre and gather up all to ensemble a new casts for Logamaya. The method is what you will do if theatre is no longer a presentation of formal artistry as we have experienced before? In Plato's Allegory of Cave, experience is of senses, and senses can be deceiving and not convincing, and that our knowledge is shadow adhering the provisional universe. So our knowledge has been regarded as an orthodox, and now we ought to 'change' that orthodox. Fermented Roti Canai is then a casual innovation for roti canai! It is a project open up for unwanted innovations.

So, we need any of you readers, if you have a 'fermented' unwanted plot, do submit it to aoa.logamaya@gmail.com, we will then discuss about its credibility and value before putting it on the performance list. The project is currently a trial for us as well, we try to explore inwardly, and also outwardly by exposing ourselves to both beginners and professionals in this scene. In this project, no matter who you are - you be the director, we be the thespians. Your source can be anything, or even nothing; from performance art, performing art to video art; make sure it is worth the Fermented Roti Canai!

PS: This project can be held anywhere, it is possible. We do not suggest any platform, the scripts submitted will be gone through by the director and will then discuss together on the where, what, how and why.