KUALA LUMPUR, April 7 -- Nature is often regarded as the greatest teacher of life and survival.

This age-old wisdom takes centrestage in The Orang Orang Drum Theatre's (OODT) upcoming production, Kaka-Lala, next month.

Kaka-Lala, a Cantonese word which means "every little corner of the world", compares the humble life in a fruit orchard to the familiar city life and sheds light on the relationship between people and the environments that they live in.

OODT have always reflected on urban life in their previous works, such as Hidup Ini Senget (2014), LaguKu (2015), The Dialogue (2017) and LaguKu2.0 (2019).

In 2021, the performing arts group embarked on the Shan-Ka-La project to explore the simple, unpretentious orchard life and sample t...