Act 2 of Doi Dum Punk begins the way all good mischief does – with a plan that spirals gloriously out of control. At 8pm, Soi Ari becomes the stage for a ‘modernisation’ experiment gone wrong, where the sleepy mountain village of Gong’s memory is remade through the eyes of tourists. With Daisy, a weed-dealer tour guide whispering bad ideas in his ear, Gong sets out to build paradise – complete with long-neck tribes, elephant trousers, tuk-tuks and those ever-smiling faces that sell a certain version of Thailand to the world. By 10pm, the village has transformed again, this time into a street drag show that feels both absurd and painfully familiar – a reminder that the line between performance and identity in Bangkok is always beautifully blurred.
October 18. Free. Doi Dum Punk, Soi Ari 5, 8pm onwards