"Staging Nation explicates creative writing and performance as actual political acts in their own right, and as important interventions in national self-constructions. Its originality lies in the unravelling of the intimate and pressured interrelation of

"Staging Nation brings together different aspects of the socio-political contexts in which these plays were staged, placing the range of views of theatre critics and practitioners against the postcolonial histories and the language and cultural policies o

"Focused and meticulously researched, Staging Nation provides fresh insights into the larger field of English language theatre in Malaysia and Singapore through a detailed and exhaustive examination of four particularly significant plays. By focusing on t

Jacqueline Lo is Senior Lecturer at the School of Humanities, Australian National University. She has published widely on postcolonial theory, performance studies and Asian-Australian cultural politics. She is the editor of Theatre in Southeast Asia, and editor of Diaspora Negotiating Asian-Australia.