What does the director of a play do and how does this person take words on the page and breathe coherent lives on the stage and meaning to the work? Kwong Loke shares insights into the craft that makes live stage performances compelling and immediate--the invisible work that goes into what many call, a play.

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Looking back at some major and interesting performances in November.

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A theatre company reenacts a witness’s account of the Batang Kali incident which took place on December 12, 1948 when British troops killed 24 villagers five months after the declaration of the Malayan Emergency. The play is titled No CoverUp.

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Playing a god-like role in the entertainment industry, designing worlds, universes and the inhabitants who breathe and live there. This craft needs the balance of structural rules and the play of the imagination. However, what more needs to be done if the imagined universe were handed down on a platter? How to deal with the anxiety of influence?

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The collector shares his collection with the public; he now shares how he collects and the appeal of the works he collects.

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Collecting and exhibiting not for the economy but for a nation’s visual representation of its history. The Director of the Bank Negara’s Museum and Art Gallery tells about its mission, permanent collection and temporary exhibitions.

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The swordsman as a dancer. Lee Wushu Arts Theatre marries the movement patterns of simulated sword fighting, dance and the martial mind. The sword is described as the ‘gentleman’ of weapons.

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The award-winning Yudi Yap, famous for the colourful cabarets of Old Shanghai Jazz halls brings us something closer to home: memorable melodies from Nanyang (aka the Malay Archipelago), the romance of 1950’s and 1960’s with a repertoire of favourite music from pre- and post-Merdeka.  She melds a hybrid of Malay melodies, Shanghai pop music mixed in with songs from Hollywood. 

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After a showing in London at an event called START, a diverse collection of works by local artists is back for an exhibition. The managing director says that these works surface the country’s untold stories.

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He plays in Gospel, blues, jazz, r&b, soul, hip-hop. Ezra and his horn has something to say. The vehicle in which he chooses to convey this message is in the form of his Debut album "The Journey".

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