Category: Performing Arts
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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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Pigs, Power and the People We Recognise
Loh Kok Man’s latest return to Animal Farm at Pentas 2, KLPAC, is less a simple revival than a reckoning. Staged in Mandarin with English surtitles, this new collaboration between Pentas Project Theatre Production and W Productions reintroduces George Orwell’s fable to a Malaysian audience already bruised by cycles of hope and disillusionment. The result…
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The Many Voices of a Single Instrument
LaguKu 3.0 gives young shigu drummers the opportunity to express their art in their own ways, with creative ideas and global influences
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Stand-Up Comedy’s Raw Power: Rizal Van Geyzel’s Defiant Art
Rizal Van Geyzel’s 60-minute tour de force transforms personal and political trauma into a masterclass in comedic resilience.
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Dancing Through Connection and Identity: A Review of T.H.E. Dance Company’s Invisible Habitudes
T.H.E. Dance Company restages their 2018 work with impressive technical execution, but its commentary on identity remains questionable.
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Contemplative Dance-Theater: A Review of Lee Swee Kong’s Trilogy of Hearts
Lee Swee Keong masterfully directs this avant-garde Japanese dance-theater performance, evoking a reminder of the transformative power of art
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Less is More: A Review of Loh Kok Man’s Double Punctum
More than ten years later, Loh Kok Man’s Double Punctum is restaged for 2024, but has it held up to the test of time?
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Repeat, rinse and refined
Ten years after its original debut, Loh Kok Man’s award-winning dance production, Double Punctum returns to KL