Exposing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary

By Yee Heng Yeh

August 2023 FOR ART'S SAKE
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A Play Review: Material Woman in the Beauty WorldWritten by Leow Puay Tin, directed by Tung Jit Yang, performed by Ling Tang.Featured as part of the George Town Festival 2023.MATERIAL WOMAN IN THE BEAUTY WORLD brings us behind the scenes into the life of a middle-aged woman working in the beauty industry. It tracks her arduous process of getting a divorce, teaches us how to field the advances of “boyfriends”, and tells us the most crucial part of a skincare...

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Yee Heng Yeh

is a writer and Mandarin-to-English translator whose work has been featured in The KITA! Podcast, adda, Strange Horizons, NutMag, Nashville Review and Guernica. You can find him on Twitter at @ HengYeh42.

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