Talk:Kee Thuan Chye

Family name is Kee! Do not change listas.==--DThomsen8 (talk) 22:04, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Recent interviews and developments

Here are two good interviews that tell us a lot about Thuan Chye's politics.

• [1]
• [2]

The Soho Theatre reading and the Playwrighting Festival credit should similarly be acknowledged.

Thuan Chye was interviewed last week [3].

--Han 15:35, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Info on the Soho Theatre reading [4] --Han 15:58, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Another link for Soho reading --Han (talk) 05:56, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Swordfish, then the Concubine

Does anyone have info on this play? --Han (talk) 00:52, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

The Swordfish, Then the Concubine is the new title for the play The Fall of Singapura. --Han (talk) 06:21, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Biographical info

Need help wikifying.

Thanks Mr. Kee! --Han (talk) 04:35, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

I added poetry info to the article. May consider abridging the list for brevity's sake. --Han (talk) 15:49, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Publications

• 1984 Here and Now, play text & post-performance reviews (K. Das Ink, 1987)

• Old Doctors Never Fade Away, a biography (Teks Publishing, 1988)

• Several poems included in bilingual Anthology of Malaysian Poetry/Antologi Puisi Pelbagai Kaum edited by K.S. Maniam and M. Shanmughalingam (Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1988)

• Haunting the Tiger and Other Stories, edited (Berita Publishing, 1991)

• Just In So Many Words, collection of selected writings in the press (Heinemann, 1992, reprinted 1993)

• Poems included in bilingual anthology of Malaysian poetry Suara Rasa (Maybank, 1993)

• We Could **** You, Mr Birch, play-text & theatre programme (self-published, 1994)

• We Could **** You, Mr Birch, play-text & introduction by Robert Yeo (self-published, 1995, reprinted 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000)

• Extract from a novel in progress entitled A Sense of Home included in the anthology New Writing 10, edited by Penelope Lively and George Szirtes (Picador, UK, 2001)

• Another extract from A Sense of Home included in the anthology The Merlion and the Hibiscus (Penguin, 2002)

• 1984 Here and Now included in Postcolonial Plays – An Anthology edited by Helen Gilbert (Routledge, UK, 2001)

• Extract from screenplay A Long Way from Hollywood included in Silverfish New Writing 2 edited by Satendra Nandan (Silverfishbooks, 2002)

• Poems, extract from A Sense of Home, and playscript of We Could **** You, Mr Birch included in anthology Petals of Hibiscus edited by Mohammad Quayum (Pearson Books, 2003)

• 1984 Here and Now, play-text & introduction by Helen Gilbert (Marshall Cavendish, 2004)

• The Big Purge, play-text & introduction by Shirley Geok-lin Lim (Marshall Cavendish, 2004)

• We Could **** You, Mr Birch, play-text & introduction by Robert Yeo (Marshall Cavendish, 2004)

• Numerous poems published in Malaysian newspapers and journals Masakini and Southeast Asian Review of English, and in magazines and journals abroad – Asiaweek (Hong Kong), Focus, Sands and Coral, Solidarity, Ideya (Philippines), Pacific Quarterly Moana (New Zealand), Ariel (Canada), Kunapipi (Australia).

• Numerous radio plays broadcast over Radio Malaysia.

Other Highlights

• 1993 -- Guest writer at Singapore Writers Week. Reading with writers from all over the world, including Josef Skvorecky, Kofi Awoonor, M.G. Vassanji

• 1995 -- 10th Association of Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies (ACLALS) Triennial Conference in Sri Lanka. Reading with writers from throughout the Commonwealth, including Dan Jacobson, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Taban lo Liyong, Jean Arasanayagam, Robert Drewe

• 1996 -- International Theatre Symposium in Hong Kong. Presented paper Bourgeois Brave New World (keynote speaker: Augusto Boal)

• 1996 -- Overseas Fellow at The Cambridge Seminar on The Contemporary British Writer at Downing College, Cambridge, UK

• 1997 -- Regional Chairperson for Southeast Asia and South Pacific region of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, which included judging the regional entries in Kuala Lumpur and the finals in London

• 1998 -- Regional Chairperson for Southeast Asia and South Pacific region of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, which included judging the regional entries in Kuala Lumpur and the finals in Jamaica

• 1998 -- Guest writer at Melbourne Writers Festival, Brisbane Writers Festival, and Spring Writing in Sydney. Readings and presentations.

• 2001 -- Fulbright Award to be first Scholar-in-Residence at University of West Virginia, USA. Unable to accept because of commitments at work.

• 2001 -- Guest writer at First Standard Chartered International Literary Festival in Hong Kong along with writers like Timothy Mo, Romesh Gunesekera, Shirley Geok-lin Lim

• 2004 -- Guest writer at Citigroup Kuala Lumpur International Literary Festival along with writers like Oscar Hijuelos, Paul Bailey, Amit Chaudhuri

Writer/Director (for the Stage)

• 1973 -- Wrote and directed An Old Man Died Today

• 1974 -- Wrote and directed The Situation of the Man who Stabbed a Dummy or a Woman and was Disarmed by the Members of the Club for a Reason Yet Obscure, If There Was One.

• 1975 -- Directed Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros

• 1976 -- Directed Narukami, adapted from the Kabuki theatre

• 1977 -- Wrote and directed Eyeballs, Leper and a Very Dead Spider.

• 1977 -- Directed Chikamatsu's The Battles of Coxinga, adapted from the Bunraku theatre

• 1981 -- Directed a revival of Narukami

• 1984 -- Wrote 1984 Here and Now, staged in 1985

• 1988 -- Wrote and directed The Big Purge.

• 1990 -- Directed Henry Ong's Madame Mao's Memories

• 1992 -- Directed Shakespeare's Macbeth

• 1993 -- Directed K.S. Maniam's The Birch and the Rod, which premiered at the Australasian Drama Studies Association Conference in Perth, Western Australia

• 1994 -- Wrote and directed We Could **** You, Mr Birch (performed for two seasons, in June and December, invited to the Festival of Asian Performing Arts in Singapore -- performances on June 5 and 6, 1995, at World Trade Centre Auditorium)

• 2005 -- The Big Purge selected for Typhoon 4, a playreading festival organised by Yellow Earth Theatre and held in Soho Theatre, London.

• 2006 -- The Swordfish, Then the Concubine made top 5 out of over 600 entries to International Playwriting Festival organised by Warehouse Theatre in Croydon, UK, and excerpts were presented at the festival in November 2006.

Acting in Theatre

• 1977 -- Creon in Anouilh's Antigone

• 1981 -- Danjo in Narukami (also directed, see above)

• 1981 -- Claudius in Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

• 1984 -- Muthiah in K.S. Maniam's The Cord

• 1984 -- Jamie Tyrone in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night

• 1985 -- Various roles in 1984 Here and Now (also wrote, see above)

• 1985 -- Various roles in Chin San Sooi's Yap Ah Loy -- The Play

• 1986 -- One-man performance of Kuo Pao Kun's The Coffin Is Too Big for the Hole

• 1986 -- Muthiah in The Cord for The Drama Festival, Singapore

• 1987 -- Ah Heng in Noordin Hassan's Anak Tanjung (Malay)

• 1988 -- Father in The Big Purge (also wrote and directed, see above)

• 1989 -- Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

• 1990 -- Chubukhov in Anton Chekhov's The Proposal

• 1990 -- Lead role of Bill in Robert Hewett's Gulls

• 1991 -- Cromwell in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons

• 1997 -- Gus in Joanna Murray-Smith's Honour

• 1998 -- Datuk in a dinner-theatre murder mystery at the KL Ritz-Carlton Hotel

• 1999 -- Multiple roles in cross-cultural comedy Expat Comes to Town

• 2002 -- One of the readers of Beautifully Read, a performance sponsored by the U.S. Embassy, directed by Karin delaPena, Artistic Director of Speaking of Stories, based in Santa Barbara, California

Acting in Television

• 1977 -- Ming Ho in one episode of Australian series Bailey's Bird

• 1984 -- Peter in TV-drama Maria (Malay)

• 1996 - 1997 -- Han Lee – main cast member in 200-episode series City of the Rich

• 1999 -- Guest role of Major Lim in one episode of sitcom Kopitiam (2nd season)

• 1999 -- Father in one episode of Singapore series The Ride Home

• 2000 -- Vince – main cast member of 13-episode sitcom Teh Tarik Dot Com

• 2001 -- Guest role of Lim Pek Kong in one episode of Singapore sitcom Phua Chu Kang

• 2002 -- Daddy in Singapore telemovie Love Matters: The Marriage Factor

• 2002 -- Guest role of Kok Hui in one episode of Kopitiam (3rd season)

• 2003 -- Semi-regular role of Ronnie Ng in 13-episode drama series Each Other

• 2004 -- Victor Wong – main-cast member in 13-episode Singapore series Perceptions

• 2004 -- David Setoh in ‘Seventh Month’ episode of Singapore series Singapore Shakes!

• 2006 -- David Yeoh in TV series Realiti

• 2007 -- Chief Map Maker in Hallmark TV-movie Marco Polo: Discovery of the World

• 2007 -- Guest role of Mr Wee in Gol & Gincu – The TV Series, Season 2

• 2007 -- Xia Yuanji, Minister of Revenue to the Emperor Yongle in the dramatized documentary Secrets of the Forbidden City for the BBC and the History Channel, produced by Lion Films

• 2007 -- Guest role of Judge in Sadiq and Co

Acting in Film

• 1999 -- Trader (speaking role) in Entrapment, directed by Jon Amiel, starring Sean Connery (Twentieth Century Fox)

• 1999 -- Second Judge (speaking role) in Anna and the King, directed by Andy Tennant, starring Jodie Foster (Twentieth Century Fox)

• 2000 -- Scrabble Man in Lips to Lips, written and directed by Amir Muhammad

• 2001 -- Mr Tan in Snipers, written and directed by James Lee

• 2004 -- Char Koay Teow in Ah Lok Cafe – The Movie, directed by AnwardiJamil

• 2007 -- Tan Cheng Lock in 1957 Hati Malaya, directed by Shuhaimi Baba (Pesona Pictures)

• 2008 -- CEO1 in Sell Out!, directed by Yeo Joon Han (Amok Films)

Writing for Television

• 1997 - 1998 -- Writing storylines for 150-episode Idaman

• 1998 – 1999 -- Writing storylines for 150-episode Idaman II

• 2004 -- Co-wrote script of one episode of Singapore Shakes! with Remesh Panicker

• 2004 -- Wrote the storyline for another episode of Singapore Shakes!

Voice-overs

• Innumerable voice-overs for radio and TV commercials since 1992.

• Since 2007 -- The voice of Ludwig von Drake in Disney's Mickey Mouse and House of Mouse TV series (in Bahasa Malaysia)

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Kee Thuan Chye/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

There's still a lot of information to synthesize about the writer. Interviews plus other works. It is unclear if the Mr. Kee prefers one genre to another.--Han (talk) 15:16, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Last edited at 15:16, 15 May 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 21:01, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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