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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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  • Of Hope, Faith, and Frailty

    At the calendar’s last page lies our primary question: is hope ever possible? Each December…

  • Nature vs Nurture

    Half a year ago, I brunched with director Jo Kukathas and Singaporean playwright Haresh Sharma…

  • Is Everything a Performance?

    Foreword by Editor: Gosh, how does one explain Performance Studies? It sounds harmless enough, doesn’t…

  • Jingle All The Way

    David Gomes & Junji Delfino – It’s Christmas Time Again Every December, a condition known…

  • Love On Trial

    We the rakyat, as represented by the Censorship Board, are being spared of Yasmin Ahmad’s…

  • Strangled Carmen

    Bizet’s music is transcendent. Once you have seen and heard Carmen, you can never forget…

  • Sing It, Mean It!

    Last weekend my chamber choir performed an enactment of The Festival of Nine Lessons and…

  • Saboturg

    Again, many are shaking their heads at the dismal state of theatre this year. Nevermind…

  • Beyond Beyond

    It was early 2003; the world news was taking an uneasy shift as President Dubya…

  • Theatertubbies

    My co-reviewer, a sandy haired postulant, has been to a dozen or more live performances…

  • Super Tweety

    Sinopsis persembahan ini memang epik. Inilah cubaan saya untuk meringkasnya: Ptuih! (nama protagonis) yang rebel…

  • The Sound of New Music

    Congratulations Chong Kee Yong – here’s to even greater compositional heights and more Starry Nights!…

  • Notes from Underground

    In Dramalab’s restaging of Huzir Sulaiman’s The Smell of Language and Notes on Life and…

  • Australia Boleh

    The cello’s left rib edge can scar one’s inner left thigh, as I found out…

  • The Political Artist

    If Wong Hoy Cheong’s exhibition at the National Art Gallery had kept to its original…