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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

    31 Dec 2003, By Pang Khee Teik

    By Pang Khee Teik After the Cameronian Arts Awards, I thought there might be an…

  • The RM1.2 Million Opera

    31 Dec 2003, By Elaine Tan

    Let’s face it, how many of us really know opera? If you’re honest, not that…

  • Krishen’s Durian

    30 Dec 2003, By Fahmi Fadzil

    I once read somewhere that a writer, over the course of his lifetime, is really…

  • Where’s the Jazz??

    24 Dec 2003, By Jerome Kugan

    The late jazz trumpeter Miles Davis said that writing about music is like dancing about…

  • Communal Menses

    24 Dec 2003, By Alfian Sa'at

    It would be parochial to insist that Singaporean theatre companies only produce plays by indigenous…

  • To Kill a Lelaki Lembut

    24 Dec 2003, By Nizam Zakaria

    The riskiest gimmick in the Malay theater scene for 2003? There’s really no contest. Especially…

  • The Silent Majority

    19 Dec 2003, By Zedeck Siew

    Like half of KL, I have the flu. At seven o’clock on Projek Suitcase 2003’s…

  • Kepelbagaian Dunia Melayu

    19 Dec 2003, By Nizam Zakaria

    Minggu lepas adalah minggu yang agak sibuk dengan adanya persembahan empat buah monolog di Stor…

  • A Whole World Behind The Everyday Meaning

    15 Dec 2003, By Elaine Tan

    Puccini’s epic opera about the beautiful but cold-hearted Chinese princess Turandot who plays violent head…

  • From Opera To Bollywood

    12 Dec 2003, By Elaine Tan

    After the setback of losing many precious scores and instruments in the flooding of the…

  • Lyrical, Topical, Moving Asian Theatre

    12 Dec 2003, By Antares

    As a cross-cultural project for “ASEAN-Japan Exchange Year 2003” it was decided that a young…

  • The Different Colours of Asia

    3 Dec 2003, By Jeannie Cotter

    It is the sea which unites different continents of the world. Inside, that sea, lived…

  • Weird Isn’t Always Wonderful

    3 Dec 2003, By Antares

    Call me an old stick-in-the-mud, but I’m one of those diehard conservatives who generally hopes…