A Disturbing Focus on The Man Through His Women

By Zedeck Siew

May 2012 FEATURE
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In the recent production of The Sandpit: Womensis, actor Anne James played Santha, a conservative Hindu woman scorned, not so much by her husband taking another wife, as by Wife No 2’s newfangled ideas about modesty:“The way she sits!” Anne said, scandalised. In imitation she slouched into a chair, thighs open and straining against her sari. “Like this. All the winds in the world blowing between her legs.”It was a comic moment, and the audience couldn’t help but erupt with...

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Zedeck Siew

has been a journalist, editor and art critic for publications like Kakiseni, The Nut Graph, KLue, and Poskod Malaysia. In 2011, he left gainful employment in media to work on fiction.


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