Father-and-son creative team Muhammad Ali (left) and Omar co-adapted Shakespeare's Macbeth into the Malay language called Dato' Seri. Photo: Ridzuan Rashid
It was nearly a year ago when Omar Ali brought home the news that the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre will be helming the Shakespeare 400 festival. It was an exciting project. Both Joe Hasham and Datuk Faridah Merican, co-founders of KLPac, had asked Omar if he wanted to be part of the festival.
“I didn’t think too much about it,” reveals Omar, KLPac’s director-in-residence, in a recent interview in KL.
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