Arts and culture industry left stranded yet again as MCO returns to Selangor, KL


PJPac's opera show 'La Voix Humaine' this weekend has been postponed due to the MCO 3.0 announcement by the Government. Photo: PJPac

The dress rehearsal of Inner Thoughts, a poetry and music performance at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPac), quickly turned into a sombre affair yesterday evening when its director Joe Hasham broke the news about the implementation of a new movement control order (MCO) in KL from May 7-20.

It left everyone devastated and some even in tears. All that Hasham and Datuk Faridah Merican, co-founders of KLPac, could do was just sit in silence, lost for words.

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