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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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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…