Sensuous Horizons - The stories and the plays Author: KS Maniam Thanks to MEV for introducing this book. This is an exciting collection of plays, prose and newspaper writings on plays written by KS Maniam. In the 1990s, all through into the Millenium, Kishen Jit was an influential theatre practitioner. His collaboration with various local and international playwrights, including KS Maniam, set the template for stage plays in the post-colonial multicultural Malaysia. He was one of the founder members of Five Arts Centre. Most of the book discusses KS Maniam’s play, ‘The Cord’. It is a social drama about the goings-on in an estate where the workers are predominantly immigrant Indians. Still living in the shadow of their cultural beliefs from their home country, it seems that most of them are missing their ticket on the bus to modernity and prosperity. In this story, the thundu, or ceremonial piece of cloth worn by Tamil men in cultural functions, acts like a MacGuffin. A thundu, in bett...
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