THROWN by Jodi Gray

Thrown is a haunting, multi-sensory solo performance about memory, childhood and the moment we are irreversibly changed. Written by Jodi Gray and directed by Gavin Yap, the play follows a child psychologist who turns to old audio recordings — of her own childhood and her patient’s — in an attempt to understand herself.

But as she listens, replays, and listens again, the recordings begin to blur, and so does the line between whose memory belongs to whom.
The production operates on a simple but unsettling philosophy: that we are all ‘thrown’ into this world, with no say over the circumstances we’re born into, and that our lives are shaped by specific, often unremarkable moments where we are thrown again — out of childhood, and into everything that follows. Thrown explores that exact threshold, built around a live, immersive soundscape designed to pull the audience into the same disorienting territory as its central character.

At times funny, at times quietly devastating, and always unpredictable, Thrown is carried entirely by veteran Malaysian actress Sofia Jane, in her first-ever one-woman show after more than three decades on screen. For 90 minutes, Sofia Jane doesn’t just perform a role — she holds an entire audience inside one woman’s unraveling sense of what’s hers to remember.A career-first performance from one of Malaysia’s most respected actresses, directed by one of the country’s most acclaimed storytellers — Thrown plays a strictly limited run at The Studio, JCPAC.