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ann lee platypus flatus twitter facebook rss feed skip to navigation skip to main content skip to secondary content skip to footer platypus flatus theater music dance book reviews home about tag archives ann lee meeting slovenians at silverfish posted on february 4 2017 by antares maitreya silverfish books recently moved to chic new premises in bangsar next to devi s corner i missed their official opening and didn t get around to dropping by until last wednesday 11 july 2001 when they hosted an informal powwow with slovenian literary luminaries evald flisar and maja vidmar the young evald flisar author playwright flisar is president of the slovene writers association and editor of a reputable literary magazine ms vidmar is a well known poet with three published collections distances of the body 1984 ways of binding 1988 and at the base 1998 what brought them to malaysia was a close encounter with malaysian novelist chuah guat eng at a writers symposium in helsinki earlier this year since they were on a cultural mission to australia they figured a brief stopover to say hello to chuah and meet malaysian writers might prove a pleasant and productive digression a third member of the touring slovenian writers andrej blatnik had opted to sun himself on a tioman beach instead of staying in hazy humid kuala lumpur so his works are unlikely ever to become bestsellers in malaysia big deal chuah guat eng also at the session was singapore born writer lau siew mei currently based in rimbun dahan on an asialink scholarship ms lau whose mother is from penang is a brisbane resident whose first novel playing madame mao brandl schlesinger 2000 was shortlisted in the inaugural queensland premier s literary award for the best emerging queensland author she read a few evocative paragraphs from her novel set in the brave new island republic of singapore where intellectuals do their thinking in the everpresent shadow of big brother and his secret police or else they migrate south to the land of oz where they just might get a grant from the australia council for the arts apart from chuah guat eng others in attendance included playwright ann lee a young poet troubadour named jerome kugan and the affable japanese writer translator takashi yoshida who had also attended the helsinki writers powwow maja vidmar much interest was expressed in the slovenian national mythos which seems to be characterized by a pervading sense of existential angst metaphysical restlessness and the inevitable nostalgia of the cultural exile flisar himself has spent the larger part of his 56 years as a sort of wandering jew working as an underground train driver in sydney editing a scientific encyclopedia in london and nosing his way around at least 80 countries mostly in the third world his semi autobiographical cult novel the sorcerer s apprentice documents his quest for inner balance in the mystic east after a debilitating nervous breakdown in 1983 we discussed the fierce individualism and intellectual independence the slovenian intelligentsia have somehow always enjoyed even amidst the terrible turmoil accompanying the disintegration of yugoslavia flisar drily observed that the inter ethnic conflict in the balkans stems mainly from the serbs dogmatic insistence on racial dominance yes that whole ketuanan nonsense which we in malaysia are all too familiar with a pensive maja vidmar maja vidmar read a few of her own poems first in english then in the original slovenian everyone was touched by the sensual lyricism and luxurious musicality of her sensitive imagery which came through even more vividly in her native tongue there was an attempt to discuss the dearth of writers and the sorry state of intellectual life in malaysia but fatigue rapidly set in and the thread was soon abandoned evald flisar writer in his prime certainly the featured readings and dialogues hosted by silverfish books are a noble attempt to keep the love of literature alive the setting is certainly convivial enough and one can always continue the heady discussions over a few drinks just down the road on july 22 at 4 30 pm kee thuan chye presents excerpts from a sense of home his novel in progress and beginning on august 1st chuah guat eng and lorna tee will offer creative writing classes for adults and students those interested will find more information at http www silverfishbooks com 19 july 2001 share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading leave a comment posted in literature and tagged ann lee chuah guat eng ewald flisar jerome kugan lau siew mei maja vidmar silverfishbooks bookmark the permalink theater of the miraculous posted on august 22 2012 by antares maitreya the utterly astonishing jo kukathas the standing ovation jo kukathas received on opening night was well and truly deserved theater like human existence itself can be a long painful struggle punctuated and occasionally redeemed by epiphanies peak experiences profound revelations kuali works production of from table mountain to teluk lntan was all of these and more if only i could convey without appearing to gush the exultation the tears the laughter the triumph the palpable sense of awe and gratitude at having been present at one of those all too rare moments when the magic of theater attains to the miraculous if only i could find the words to express the poignancy of bearing witness to a nightmare ended and a dream fulfilled whose dream what nightmare shahimah charmaine idris is a cape malay who left south africa in 1981 to seek a less bigoted reality in australia there she met and married malaysian artist raja azhar and birthed two lovely children norazam and nadiah the family moved to malaysia and opened an art gallery in 1997 that ominous year when the asian tigers lost their roar and we choked and gasped and saw no sky for months on end a tragic accident befell shahimah in an underground carpark her spinal cord was badly injured in a knife attack which left her paralyzed from the waist down her attacker was never caught but he was believed to be a bouncer in a nightclub who had once flashed her and been given a public tongue lashing by this fiery pint sized victim the courageous shahimah right seen here with a friend it was a brutal act of vengeance motivated by thwarted lust which shattered her life like a tornado from hell for shahimah the long painful struggle to regain physical psychological and emotional wholeness fighting off despair frustration and the very real fear that she would as the doctors opined never walk again was a private ordeal that could only be ended and transcended by her going public with it shahimah idris decided to write a critical log of her life s voyage hoping to make sense of everything that had happened to her since she arrived on this fascinating but hostile planet in february 1999 actor playwright director ann lee began collaborating on a playscript with shahimah along with three others lee and shahimah were founding partners of kuali works an all women arts company involved in theater television publications seminars and workshops sue ingleton intuitive director things began falling into place jo kukathas agreed to play shahimah called alia in the story even before she read the first draft australian actor writer director sue ingleton who had previously performed and conducted workshops in kuala lumpur was invited to direct dynamic arts administrator kathy rowland was called in to produce five powerful women working together is certainly a cosmic force to be reckoned with i ve always known that theater like all the arts has its roots in shamanism but the glory seeking human ego often hijacks the process in this instance as jo kukathas revealed there was no egotism nor were there primadonna displays instead there was a deep spiritual bonding amongst the collaborators that generated a tangible field of love intelligence and creative wisdom from table mountain to teluk intan was undoubtedly a labor of love art from the heart sacred stuff sue ingleton s intuitive and judicious directorial input included creating a dramatic soundscape with the help of ace audio engineer wong pek fui to complement the beautiful and brilliant simplicity of carolyn lau s versatile set an arty video clip was projected at one point in the narrative but it was too fragmented to register except subliminally illustrious lighting designer mac chan outdid himself on this production we were illuminated by the sheer effectiveness and precision of chan s gobsmacking mri magnetic radiation imaging sequence which for a minute beamed the audience into a star trek reality and then teleported us to teluk intan to yet another manifestation of racial bigotry prejudice and tempurungism shahimah believed she d left behind in south africa a personal artistic triumph the reality within reality that s revealed only when disbelief is suspended such synchronistic moments in theater can never be forgotten at one point a woman sitting in the front row who occasionally obscured my view with her triangular hairdo stood up unsteadily and reached for her crutches something went click in my brain i was aware of a reality shift the drama i was witnessing on stage was born of a trauma a real person had suffered and survived more than survived obviously the real life alia aka shahimah appeared a little overcome and rightly so watching jo kukathas re enact her life capetown accent and all while channeling a vivid cast of characters drawn from the playwright s memory i had come to see the play without the slightest inkling of what it was about realizing it was all about that feisty looking woman with the kooky hairdo was truly a powerful profound revelation it was very dramatic drama trauma traum which in german means dream james joyce called history a nightmare from which he was trying to awake theater began with mystery plays enacted by eleusinian initiates for public cartharsis and healing making whole entertainment was only the sugar coating on the pill of social therapy what are our lives if not a bunch of stories and what are stories if not a record of our explorations in spacetime a document of our quest for meaning and purpose and a sense of belonging shahimah idris s honesty of voice and resilience of spirit can only awaken us to our own ann lee collaborated on the script i have seen jo kukathas progress from strength to strength with each new challenge but her artistic contact with director sue ingleton seems to have propelled her beyond technical mastery into a dramaturgical form of trance channeling i couldn t resist thinking that the amazing jo kukathas was serving as some sort of holographic portal for entities trapped in the collective unconscious her total surrender to the mediumistic task secures their release from time s prison and therefore alia shahimah s too her agile witty tongue and acrobatic physical movements in telling alia s story starkly underscored the helplessness and humiliation the wheelchair bound and bed ridden must feel ms kukathas s victorious performance was a monumental inspiration to all who have ever felt defeated by life for me from table mountain to teluk intan peremptorily dismissed any niggling doubts i may have entertained about the therapeutic value of theater go see the play if i had stars to hand out i d give this one lots more than five october 2000 share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading 5 comments posted in theater and tagged ann lee from table mountain to teluk intan jo kukathas kuali works shahimah idris sue ingleton bookmark the permalink recent posts kam raslan a movie you can read sacred ritual as art hot heavenly hornbills the salieri syndrome revisited birds of a feather search for archives archives select month june 2022 1 august 2021 1 july 2020 1 february 2020 1 september 2018 1 november 2017 2 august 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