Review

Stillness. Stasis. Movement. Action. Sitting in traffic on the way to Wei Ling Gallery to…

Some confessions ought to start this piece off nicely: First, when asked to review Multhalib…

What kind of school has toughening-up camps that they force their “effeminate” students to attend?…

A daughter rapes and kills her father. This was how I first came to know…

In Bernice Chauly’s small but substantial collection of poetry and prose, The Book of Sins,…

Persepolis is based on the best-selling graphic novel of the same name by Marjane Satrapi.…

A red Chinese box-altar stands on one of The Annexe Gallery’s upper levels; its idol,…

Urgh. For some reason, when the arts community decides to embark on a production that…

Kg Berembang Mon 5, Mar 2007 Kg Berembang was a place I knew about only…

Fancy costumes and hoity-toity language do not generally agree with me in the theatre, so…

The semi-autobiographical domestic drama by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter, Betrayal (staged at the Kuala Lumpur…

I don’t bother with film shorts in the States. I think of American shorts as…

Watching the KLPac production of Frankenstein in Love, I was somehow reminded of a play…

Finding out about international acts performing live in Malaysia can be a bit like playing…

Should I be afraid to point a camera at something if it’s wrong? A few…

Those who are familiar with classical Chinese literature will have heard of Liang Shanbo and…

What do the films Lelaki Komunis Terakhir and Gubra have in common? Obvious answer: they…

The programme leaflet for Anak Bulan Di Kampong Wa’ Hassan, staged recently at KLPac, has…

At the door to Laut Lebih Indah Dari Bulan, which ran between September 7 -…

Majlis pelancaran buku From Majapahit to Putrajaya — yang mana saya terlewat dan bila sampai…

The entrance to Khoo Kongsi, perhaps one of Penang’s most iconic locations, is a porte…

There is always that moment of trepidation when a curtain rises on a musical for…

Long long ago in a galaxy far far away there was a land whose people…