Images at the Margins: A Collection of Kuo Pao Kun's Plays

Paperback; 404 pages
9789812046963
KepMedia International Pte Ltd
2007
English
1 copy available at C42

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Synopsis

This volume, which brings together ten of Kuo Pao Kun's plays, provides a highly sensitive, critically inflected and sometimes "seismographic" account of the clashes between two distinct worlds – that of the English-educated Singaporean and his Chinese-educated counterpart. Although no perceptible violence arises from these clashes, there is almost always the daily abrasions of the soul. With an unflinching eye, Kuo Pao Kun – the marginal person between these two worlds – plumbs the soul for the conscience and consciousness of Singaporeans, revealing as he does the artist as the true ethicist. 

With reviews of the plays by leading Asian drama critics, this volume gives new insights into one of Singapore's most prominent playwrights. 

(Source: Images at the Margins - A Collection of Kuo Pao Kun's Plays blurb)


contents

The Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole
No Parking on Odd Days
The Silly Little Girl and the Funny Old Tree
Mama Looking For Her Cat
Day I Met the Prince
KOPITIAM (The Coffeeshop)
The Eagle and the Cat (A Monodrama)
Lao Jiu (The Ninth Born)
0Zero01
The Evening Climb

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