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The Non-Essentials is a family-friendly performance that is packed with surprises, laughter, and a healthy dose of delightful nonsense. Whether you’re 7 or 70, this is a show that promises to tickle your funny bone!Written and Directed by Sharanya Radhakrishnan and performed by Putrina Rafie, Deena Dakshini, Naveen Raja, Qayleef and Lew Li Ling, The Non-Essentials features high-energy improv scenes, original characters, and moments so random you might just fall in love with the absurd. And here’s the twist! You might even get to direct our actors live on stage! That’s right!&nbsp;It’s fun for kids, even better for adults, and absolutely essential for anyone who enjoys a good laugh, creative play, and a unique theatre experience.📅 DATE: Saturday, 3rd May 2025🕒 SHOWTIMES: 3:30 PM (Matinee)
6:30 PM (Evening Show)&nbsp;📍 VENUE:
Hush The Theatre (A-1-9, Glomac Damansara, Jalan Damansara, 60000, Kuala Lumpur)&nbsp;🎟&nbsp;TICKET PRICE:&nbsp;RM 40/ ticket for both children and adults&nbsp;We look forward to seeing you there!&nbsp;

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Get ready for a laugh out loud and totally unpredictable variety show that is perfect for kids AND adults! The Non-Essentials brings you a delightful mash up of silly scenes, wild and unpredictable characters and a little improv!

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Since childhood, Li Ling has always enjoyed playing with the make-believe—and as fate would have it, she stumbled into theatre during university one day and willingly fell down the rabbit hole. Though she now works in corporate, the characters she plays remind her to stay starry-eyed about life. With a background in accounting and finance, she often wonders why she spends too much money on matcha lattes. She hopes to open a matcha bar one day. When she isn’t on stage or obsessing over Excel pivot tables, she can be found overusing exclamation marks and rewatching The Devil Wears Prada.

She was last seen in Crayons Gone Wild (2025) and The Non-Essentials (2025) under Hush the Theatre KL's Resident Actor Program, Gayasma-24 (2024) under EJKLSSENI's The Young Blood Experiment Program (Priori Miasma), and Limbo (2024) under EJKLSSENI's The Open Door Project Volume 1.

Lew Li Ling

Qayleef Jesmet is a Malaysian producer, actor, and playwright working across theatre and screen. He is the founder of Performative Theatre, a community initiative that introduces young practitioners to plays through monthly script readings. His producing credits include The Wayang Women Forum and Playrush Malaysia Day 2025.

Qayleef was also a Resident Actor for Hush Theatre in which he performed in Crayons Gone Wild, The Non-Essentials and Bohemian Kats : The Great Escape. He also performed in Murder at The Jet (TAH! Productions) and LIMAU by Kelambu.lan

Qayleef

Qayleef Jesmet

Hush The Theatre Sdn Bhd

Naveen Raja is a Malaysian Indian multidisciplinary theatre practitioner best known for his acting debut in Amma Chellam by Anomalist Production, which earned recognition at the 19th Boh Cameronian Arts Awards, and for winning the Festival Director’s Award at Short+Sweet Theatre 2025 for The Violet Veil .

Onstage credits include Garam and Lapar by EJKLSSeni, Son of the Forest by Amberjade Arts, Murder at the Jet by TAH! Productions, Life Is... by KL Men's Chorus and The Relationsh*t Chronicles by Big Nose Productions. He also performed in several children’s productions during his tenure as a resident actor with Hush the Theatre.

Offstage, he has contributed his technical expertise to major productions including Fault Lines, Oceans of Pride: Waves of Legacy, and Teater Muzikal Paduka Cik Siti. He further developed his writing and directing through EJKLSSeni’s The Young Blood Experiment (TYBE). After graduating from TYBE 2024, he went on to stage Ammavin Thuru for Short+Sweet Theatre 2024 and Bloodnight Stains.

Naveen continues to be the beautiful force to be reckoned with in the performing arts industry, holding multi-faceted roles in singing, dancing, acting, writing, directing and on some days, the “tech guy”.

Naveen Raja

Naveen A/L Harrie Raja Rahman

Tania Ashwini is a contemporary trained actor who attended the Australian Institute of Music 2018-2020. She also completed the Serious Acting Intermediate Course under Actors Emergence in 2023.

Since then, she has starred in two EJKL Seni plays, Places We Only Visit at 3AM (September 2023) and Three-Tailed Contradictions (December 2023). In August 2023, she played Jerry in Zoo Story with Actors Emergence. In 2024, she participated in three Playrush performances under Hush Theatre and was awarded “Best Newcomer” at Short + Sweet 2024.

 In 2025, She participated in HUSH THE THEATRE'S “Theatre in motion project” , She has also stepped into new roles behind the scenes, as the Stage Manager for Moonu Kaaka Oru Vadai and Tech for Hush's Resident Actors and Directed and Wrote "Murder at the Jet". In late 2025, She has gone back into acting, being in "LET ME GO, "Short + Sweet Theatre and Musical" and  BCAA'S nominee "The Swimming Instructor"

In 2026, She was in "GIRLEATER" by EJKLSENI &"THE WHALE" under KLPAC. Her next project will be Short + Sweet Theatre and Musical 2026. 

She’s continuing to follow her passion for acting and theatre for the rest of her life.

Outside of theatre, Tania loves to take care of animals, scroll on pinterest endlessly and take photos.

Tania Ashwini

JAZZIE LEE JIN JYE is a Malaysian Chinese multidisciplinary theatre-maker and storyteller, whose work spans directing, movement, comedy improvisation, acting, and design. 

Jazzie has collaborated with Hush The Theatre (2025) as a set designer, with Theatresauce (2021–2024) as a designer-collaborator, and with lowercase laboratories (2020–present) as co-founder and collaborator. Her directorial works include both of them were me (2022) and Forget Me Not (2024), both were devised pieces rooted in the exploration of memory; identity; and the inner world.  She is a member of the autism spectrum and finds that making theatre is her way of processing the world around her. 

In 2024, she proudly represented Malaysia at the Asian Youth Theatre Festival (AYTF) in Chiang Mai, performing a street piece inspired by the Jalan Masjid India sinkhole incidents and co-facilitating a workshop on theatre's role in addressing environmental issues.

Outside of theatre, Jazzie specializes in designing posters, presentation decks, and publicity materials. Please hire her so she can feed herself. And she's often seen with her orange glasses and asking people to go karaoke with her.

Jazzie Lee Jin Jye

deena dakshini (she/they) is a neurodivergent tamil artist nesting in her rice bowl of writing. 

as director to haiku: a neurodivergent harmony (2023), gasing (2024) and kairu (2025), both their film and theatre work delves into cultural dissociation, community history, and feminism. 

deena’s exploration of theatre has revealed a profound connection to the stage, leading her to accept performing arts as her true calling. they are a part of hush the theatre’s resident actors programme 2025. deena is also founder of the local malaysian poetry community @toolismalaysia. 

playwright credits: 
- madness, scissors & love
- அக்குள் belly (huckleberry)

their previous acting stints in theatre include: 
- ⁠son of the forest (dir. by tarrant, prod. by amberjade arts) 
- moonu kaaka oru vadai(dir. by santhiagu thiagu)
- murder at the jet (dir. by tania ashwini)
- crayons gone wild, the non-essentials, bohemian meerkats: their great escape)
- tali tukang gantung (dir. by effa qamariani)

deena (she/they)

deena dakshini

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The Non-Essentials

RM40.00

RM40.00

RM40.00

RM40.00

Get ready for a laugh out loud and totally unpredictable variety show that is perfect for kids AND adults! The Non-Essentials brings you a delightful mash up of silly scenes, wild and unpredictable characters and a little improv!

Performers & Creatives

Santhiagu Thiagu

Lew Li Ling

Qayleef

Hush The Theatre Sdn Bhd

Naveen Raja

Tania Ashwini

Jazzie Lee Jin Jye

deena (she/they)

Ticketing

3:30PM (GMT+8)

6:30PM (GMT+8)

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