Synopsis

Yasmin is an intimate, poetic solo performance that explores the moral complexity of assisted dying through the story of a Chinese woman in an interfaith marriage. Facing terminal illness, Yasmin considers a final act of agency — a decision that could bring peace to her suffering, yet risks spiritual consequences and deep emotional rupture with her Muslim husband. Rooted in love, loss, and the search for dignity, the piece asks: What do we owe to those we love, and to ourselves, at the end of life?

Beyond its emotional core, Yasmin is also an experiment in form. In collaboration with interdisciplinary artist Khairul Kamsani, I am developing an intermedial and virtual production design that integrates live-feed cameras, projection, and cinematic language. These elements serve not as spectacle, but as tools to deepen the audience's empathy — to place them inside Yasmin's inner world, close to her breath, her gaze, her silence.

Yasmin ( Work-in-progress Excerpts)