Book Review: “Excavations, Interrogations, Krishen Jit & Contemporary Malaysian Theatre”
about 69 months ago (09/12/2018)
Book Review: "Excavations, Interrogations, Krishen Jit & Contemporary Malaysian Theatre" | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 12, 2018 By Felipe Cervera (1600 words, eight-minute read) Excavations, Interrogations, Krishen Jit & Contemporary Malaysian Theatre , edited by Charlene Rajendran, Ken Takiguchi and Carmen Nge, is a long overdue resource that sheds light on important aspects of the cultural, artistic, and political histories of Malaysian contemporary theatre—and, by extension, some medullar elements of Singaporean theatre too. The book is the sui generis publication of the proceedings of a conference held in January of 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, which was organized in celebration of the tenth anniversary of Krishen Jit’s death. In case the reader does not know who he was, Krishen was a paramount figure in the history of contemporary theatre in Malaysia and Singapore during the last third of twentieth century.