A school production of Othello by the Drama and Music Society of Ipoh ACS in the 1960s. Photos: Filepic
“So regular were stagings of Shakespeare put up, that the school was dubbed the Stratford-upon-Kinta,” says theatre personality Chin San Sooi of his alma mater.
For many, the knowledge or love for literature is nurtured at school, and in Malaysia, Ipoh Anglo-Chinese School (ACS) has the distinction of being one of the institutions that raised many a thespian and staged a high volume of plays and musicals from as early as the 1950s and 60s.
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