Play based on scary Penang ghost story has actress playing 4 characters

Darynn Wee plays Salbiah and three other roles in the theatre show 'Fragrance (Wangian)' at Five Arts Centre in KL, starting April 18. Photo: Goh Hun Meng

When Darynn Wee joined her friends for a spooky night out filled with youthful kicks and ghost stories during her university days in Penang, she didn’t expect that one day she would actually be playing one of the supernatural beings on stage.

But more than being unnerved about revisiting a blood-curdling scary story, Wee, 25, says she feels the burden get her character right in the upcoming theatre show Fragrance (Wangian), which opens at Five Arts Centre's Kotak space, Taman Tun Dr Ismail in Kuala LumpurÂ