Potential general elections are a very good time for all Wayang Kulitians and all type of play actors. They get to act out their lines even more precisely. Shakespeare said all the world is a stage. Why else would Dr Mahathir Mohamad, of all people, take on the Orang Asal of peninsular Malaya? No wonder they are even called officially ‘Orang Asli’ and not Asal.