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Image Credit: Ribut (1983)
Explore our repository of articles, essays, reviews and interviews covering a wide range of arts and culture. The majority of these were commissioned and published on the online arts magazine Kakiseni from 2002 – 2010.
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In The Year of The Flood
By Pang Khee Teik After the Cameronian Arts Awards, I thought there might be an…
The RM1.2 Million Opera
Let’s face it, how many of us really know opera? If you’re honest, not that…
Krishen’s Durian
I once read somewhere that a writer, over the course of his lifetime, is really…
Where’s the Jazz??
The late jazz trumpeter Miles Davis said that writing about music is like dancing about…
Communal Menses
It would be parochial to insist that Singaporean theatre companies only produce plays by indigenous…
To Kill a Lelaki Lembut
The riskiest gimmick in the Malay theater scene for 2003? There’s really no contest. Especially…
The Silent Majority
Like half of KL, I have the flu. At seven o’clock on Projek Suitcase 2003’s…
Kepelbagaian Dunia Melayu
Minggu lepas adalah minggu yang agak sibuk dengan adanya persembahan empat buah monolog di Stor…
A Whole World Behind The Everyday Meaning
Puccini’s epic opera about the beautiful but cold-hearted Chinese princess Turandot who plays violent head…
From Opera To Bollywood
After the setback of losing many precious scores and instruments in the flooding of the…
Lyrical, Topical, Moving Asian Theatre
As a cross-cultural project for “ASEAN-Japan Exchange Year 2003” it was decided that a young…
The Different Colours of Asia
It is the sea which unites different continents of the world. Inside, that sea, lived…
Weird Isn’t Always Wonderful
Call me an old stick-in-the-mud, but I’m one of those diehard conservatives who generally hopes…