Clan villages brimming with folktales

Actors enacting a traditional wedding ceremony during the play ‘Our Clan Jetties’ by Nineties Production at Chew Jetty in George Town, Penang. — Photos: ZHAFARAN NASIB/The Star

IN ORDER to share the rich heritage of the Penang clan jetties in Weld Quay with the outside world, a fifth generation resident in Chew Jetty has willingly converted her wooden house on stilts into an auditorium.

Chew Siew Pheng, 42, turned three out of the five bedrooms into a hall for live theatrical performances titled ‘Folklore By The Sea’ which tells the history and development of the clan jetties from the 1880s.