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Theatre review: Oo-woo is a quiet, affecting drama that asks how gender shapes caregiving
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Farah Lola (left) plays Hanna, a single daughter who faces expectations of caring for her mother (Dalifah Shahri) in playwright Raimi Safari's Oo-woo.
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The Necessary Stage
Esplanade Theatre Studio
Jan 24, 8pm
A quiet and affecting work of realism, Oo-woo spends its modest 75 minutes examining the aftermath of a mother’s dementia diagnosis as family tensions and gender favouritism in a Malay household bubble to the surface.
