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In director Kuo Jian Hong’s All The World’s A Sea, the voice of the late Kuo Pao Kun lingers
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The Theatre Practice's artistic director Kuo Jian Hong ponders how her late father Kuo Pao Kun would have reacted to ongoing displacements while directing All The World's A Sea.
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SINGAPORE – While most know Kuo Pao Kun as the doyen of Singapore theatre, theatremaker Kuo Jian Hong remembers her late father as her swimming teacher. It was the elder Kuo who helped her overcome her fear of water, and his voice that came to her in a near-death drowning experience in Bali’s waters a decade ago.
“The ocean is a big thing that connected me and my father,” says Kuo, who was born in 1967. Not least, she adds, because her father had also nearly drowned when he went body surfing and taught her how to survive in such a scenario.
