35 (2017)

<35> tells a story of a single man who is aged at 35 who lives with depression. He locks himself in a closet and willingly emerging himself in the closet with no interruption. He takes his lonely time in the dark. However, his nightmare appears and again he is brought back to the tunnel of memories and to face the real world.Most importantly, to face himself as a human. He thought he could happily encounters all circumstances with his belief that his mother taught when he was young.

The world is just not going in his way. He is forced to make changes to his attitude and way of thinking in order for him to live well in this materialistic world. The world is killing him. He keeps asking WHY and there’s no answer to his questions of life.

He losts his faith.

He decides to end his life. At this moment, his closet friend- a bear appears in the closet. His late and beloved grandfather too hold his hand and gives him a warm hug. Just like his beautiful moments with grandfather before he died.

Midlife depression is common but not everyone manage to go through it in a good way. Is it a “transition” or “depression”? this is what the director cum script writer would like to portrait in <35> to tell about the importance of self-check physically and mentally when you are over 30s. Pay more attention to your friend/ relative who acts weirdly somehow to avoid unnecessary suicidal case.

<35> is a stage play with multimedia projections and live music that hopefully will impact the audience with gestures, actings, colours, images, sounds, musics etc. This show comes with English surtitle.