Preserving original scripts in 'Staging History'

Marion DCruz's Gostan Forward is one of the 15 plays included in Staging History: Selected Plays from Five Arts Centre Malaysia 1984 – 2014. The book is available at local bookstores. Filepic

Good scripts are hard to come by. Insightful, transcendent and very human plays like Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman or Winnie Holzman’s Wicked burst onto the stage when least expected.

As for the Malaysian theatre scene, forget about good or bad. Original scripts themselves are hard to come by … at least in the last decade.