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Title: Ah kua or Aqua?
Post by: Shana A on September 07, 2010, 08:16:03 AM
Ah kua or Aqua?
Tue, Sep 07, 2010
The New Paper
By Charlene Chua

http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Showbiz/Story/A1Story20100907-236077.html (http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Showbiz/Story/A1Story20100907-236077.html)

THE Ah Kua Show? Oh, you mean the Aqua Show.

That's what people who attended The New York International Fringe Festival three weeks ago probably thought they heard.

The Ah Kua Show is really a first-person, three-act play by local transgendered woman Leona Lo.

It was the only Singapore offering at the event in New York.

In the local context, Ah Kua is a derogatory Hokkien term for a transsexual or transvestite.