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Staging Raja Tangkai Hati at Istana Budaya: Modernizing Malaysian Mak Yong

Staging Raja Tangkai Hati at Istana Budaya: Modernizing Malaysian Mak Yong malay theatre today-- forum on mak yong 2003­2011 Kathy Musa Kahn Kathy Foley is editor of Asian Theatre Journal and teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Cultural Centre, University of Malaya, and the Arts Research Institute of UCSC supported work for this report. Dr. Sabzali Musa Kahn is scenic artist whose work on modern and traditional theatre has been seen at the National Theatre of Malaysia and other venues. He is the deputy director of undergraduate studies at Cultural Centre of the University of Malaya, where he teaches on visual art and scenic design. This report will consider scenic issues of staging contemporary mak yong by looking at the 2003 production of Raja Tangkai Hati (King of the Heart; literally, "liver stem") presented at Istana Budaya, Malaysia's National Theatre in Kuala Lumpur during the artistic directorship (2001­2005) of Hatta Azad Khan. The genre is the dance-drama of the Kelantan-Patani area that was supported in palace and/or village environments prior to the 1940s. The guru leading this offering was National Artist and mak yong prima donna Khadijah Awang (1941­ 2009), who used a combination of professional artists from her group (Kumpulan Seri Temengggung KST) and students http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Theatre Journal University of Hawai'I Press

Staging Raja Tangkai Hati at Istana Budaya: Modernizing Malaysian Mak Yong

Foley, Kathy
Asian Theatre Journal , Volume 29 (2) – Feb 14, 2012
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malay theatre today-- forum on mak yong 2003­2011 Kathy Musa Kahn Kathy Foley is editor of Asian Theatre Journal and teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Cultural Centre, University of Malaya, and the Arts Research Institute of UCSC supported work for this report. Dr. Sabzali Musa Kahn is scenic artist whose work on modern and traditional theatre has been seen at the National Theatre of Malaysia and other venues. He is the deputy director of undergraduate studies at Cultural Centre of the University of Malaya, where he teaches on visual art and scenic design. This report will consider scenic issues of staging contemporary mak yong by looking at the 2003 production of Raja Tangkai Hati (King of the Heart; literally, "liver stem") presented at Istana Budaya, Malaysia's National Theatre in Kuala Lumpur during the artistic directorship (2001­2005) of Hatta Azad Khan. The genre is the dance-drama of the Kelantan-Patani area that was supported in palace and/or village environments prior to the 1940s. The guru leading this offering was National Artist and mak yong prima donna Khadijah Awang (1941­ 2009), who used a combination of professional artists from her group (Kumpulan Seri Temengggung KST) and students

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Asian Theatre Journal – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: Feb 14, 2012

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