COMMENT | Thanks for the memory, Jit

"No one that I know of in Malaysian theatre makes decadence as scintillating as does Jit Murad… Jit reincarnated the blithe spirit of Noel Coward. He seemed to have been transported from another time and mood to give us a separate peace in our present, conflict-ridden clime… he could easily become one of the wiliest, devious and subversive performers on the local stage."

COMMENT | That was drama critic Krishen Jit’s assessment of Jit Murad on his debut as a theatre performer. (A New Sundays Times review collected in “Krishen: An Uncommon Position”, Contemporary Asian Arts Centre, 2003.)

The performances were at the Fringe of the Singapore Arts Festival 1988 (after two successful seasons in Kuala Lumpur the year before).

The play was “Caught in the Middle” (commonly referred to as CiTM), written and directed by me.

I am at an age where...