Partygoers wandered from room to room, discovering things from a "silent disco" to a Portuguese-Malaccan folk song, a dialogue about a cupboard on the staircase or poet Cyril Wong singing a plaintive elegy while playing the piano.
Despite the crowd and some confusion over who was to go where when, there were gems such as Main Tulis Group's nine-minute play Tarian Kakak by Ahmad Musta'ain, a poignant exchange between two sisters about love and memory.
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