Theater and Nation in Contemporary Malaysia: The Work of the Five Arts Centre

• Main Author: Abad, Ricardo G.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Five Arts Centre; Intercultural Theater; Malaysian Performing Arts; Resource Mobilization; Social Movement Organization; Sociology of Performance; Theater and Nation
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss29/4; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/2133/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n29_2017_5D_202.2_Article_Abad.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

How does theater interrogate a nation that preaches racial harmony, on the one hand, yet practices racial inequality, on the other? Focusing on the work of the Five Arts Centre, an artistic company in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, this paper finds that this interrogation takes place on the symbolic plane...