We Are Nothing Without Hantu-Hantu is a solo piece that follows a Malay-Muslim woman, Chomel, navigating the hantu-hantu (ghosts) of her mother, her grandma, and herself. Chomel, named after the Pontianak by her horror-loving grandma, must face her grandma’s unhealthy horror film obsession, her mother’s almost Pontianak story and her own unwilling initiation into Zombie Land. As these stories interweave in a collective seance that transgresses time, space, and generations, the Pontianak, the most feared female ghost, lurking ever so close, makes her presence felt with her own tale to tell.
*2023 Hollywood Fringe Festival (HFF) scholarship recipient
*East-West Players Scholarship – The Solo Project Workshop
*HFF ’23 Best International Show Nominee
*HFF ’23 Soaring Solo Social Impact Award Nominee
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