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When Theatre Royalty Meets Mortal Truths
From writer-director Joe Hasham’s God’s Waiting Room, the stage at KLPAC transformed into an intimate vestibule of memory. Featuring the historic first-time trifecta of Datuk Faridah Merican, Patrick Teoh, and Anne James, the production served as a landmark celebration of Malaysian theatre. While the performance was bolstered by masterful stage command and an undeniable natural…
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Murder Mystery or Social Diagnosis: The Narrative Contract and Cultural Reflection of ‘ENTOURAGE’
After watching ENTOURAGE: Murder Amongst Friends (2025), I found myself grappling not with the question of whether I liked the work, but with how best to approach it as a relatively young audience who is unfamiliar with Jit Murad’s creative context. For those well-versed in Jit’s oeuvre, or who carry vivid memories of Kuala Lumpur’s decadent urban…
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From Folk to Nation: The Cultural Repositioning of ‘Drums: A New Beat Beckons’ (2025) and the Twenty-Four Festive Drums*
What Drum Up JB 2.0: Drums: A New Beat Beckons has opened is a path that calls for more creators, more audiences, and more cross-cultural (and cross-disciplinary) dialogue: ……
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The Artsee History
Artsee Networks started pre-2000 as Artseefartsee.com, the very first Malaysian arts and culture website in the era of the dial-up modem, JARING.MY and the Netscape browser.
It popularised email and web-marketing for greater Kuala Lumpur’s nascent arts industry that had limited funds to put behind artistic and creative efforts. There’s a whole story behind how this accidentally happened but we’ll leave it for another webpage.
As others attempted to follow its lead, founder, Vernon Adrian Emuang, never a fighter, always a lover, quickly reconfigured the brand to shift-shape into something more useful and necessary for the arts and culture scene, helping it evolve in new ways.