The weight of a heartbreak

AN exquisite sensuality suffuses every inch of The Weight Of Silk On Skin, Huzir Sulaiman's award-winning monologue about an ageing playboy. The backdrop is a large walk-in wardrobe with expensive shirts and shoes. A lounge chair rests on one side, while a half-mannequin stands watchfully on the other. It is all so tightly art-directed that it almost feels airless.

And then Adrian Pang walks in, leaving some gasping for air.

As 40-something libertine John Au Yong, Pang perfectly embodies the wealthy, debonair and outwardly misogynistic character. On first impression, John is a bona fide b*stard. He talks about women as if they were cattle: "A woman is the tautness of her flesh ... what you think doesn't matter, miss." The metaphor is transposed later when he compares the maki…