The Collaboration…

Impak Maksima was originally created by prolific Malaysian director Ahmad Idham as television series and later on for the silver screen. He was eventually inspired to take it to the stage and transform the story into a live action musical, complete with dancing and drifting.

The musical version of Impak debuted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for the first time in Nov 2008. It ran for about two weeks to great response from both Impak fans and new audiences.

This production of Impak in Singapore for Pesta Raya has evolved from its debut, with an artistic collaborative effort between the Malaysian producers of Impak and Panggung Arts. Dialogue from the musical, along with the live car drifting as well as the dancing sequences have been re-worked and adapted as a new and improved version of the musical as a whole.

On Panggung Arts

Panggung ARTS is an ensemble of Singapore theatre artists with a decade of theatre experiences under their belt. They create and perform original, issue-based theatre productions, committing to play a role in audience education and artistic exchange amongst theatre creators, in order to usher new advancements in the Singapore theatre.

Founded in 2008, they are dedicated to their mission to make vibrant multi-lingual, relevant issue-based, Singapore-brand theatre productions for the local and global communities. Past works include MA’MA YONG – About Nothing Much To Do, “angelism” – A collaboration with Dramabox as part of the OCBC Singapore Theatre Festival 2008, …dan tinggal tiga baju raya and Betrayed Babies, a commissioned work for the M1 Fringe Festival 2009.

Fantastic Four Crew

Fantastic Four is a dance group that won Esplanade’s da:ns festival competition Overdrive in 2007. They were also the first runner-up for Mediacorp’s very first television dance competition, The Dance Floor in the same year. Since their initial exposure, the group has been regularly invited to perform on other television shows, in major national events, including National Day celebrations and corporate events locally and overseas.

For this production, Mohammad Ridzwan Rashid (better known as "Ewan") of the Fantastic Four Crew will be co-choreographing some of the key dance pieces in the musical and will be joined by his crew to boost Impak onstage.