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In , Leow Puay Tin's groundbreaking play Three Children was staged in a landmark collaboration between Krishen Jit, co-founder of Five Arts Centre, and Ong.
Titioners such as Krishen Jit and Huzir Sulaiman are well known on both His last novel, Abraham's Promise, was published a decade earlier....
Icon, Guru, Beloved Friend
I came late to Krishen Jit. Having grown up with Talking Drama with Utih, his review column in the NST which ran from 1972 to 1994, however, I felt I knew all there was to know about him years before we actually became friends.
He was after all a towering figure in the arts – an actor, producer, director, critic, scholar, dramaturge, educator and arts policy advocate whose 40-year career was in itself, a history lesson in the nation’s artistic and cultural journey.
The son of Punjabi immigrants, Krishen grew up in the heart of KL’s textile district, where he was exposed to the street performances of Chinese Opera and bangsawan.
Simultaneously, he was fed a colonial school-boy’s diet of Shakespeare and Shaw at the Victoria Institute, which in turn sparked a love for the amateur dramatics that typified the theatre scene of the time.
It was a childhood that straddled the contradictory worlds of colonial Malaya, and one which led him di
