Goldfish Is Meant For Dying
Desdemona
Writers’ Lab — 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2009)
Trip To The South
The Maids & Diary Of A Madman (Double Bill)
Brian Gothong Tan Residency — Signs, Omens And Relics Of Faith
Tintin Wulia Residency: The Adventures Of Flo & Kat
Grey Matters
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Three Inches Of Alive
Writers’ Lab: 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Singapore Young Dramatists Award (2005)
The Continuum Asia Project – Excavating Cultures And Memories (2005)
Writers’ Lab — Charging Up Memory Lane: 30 Plays In 30 Days
Alter Art: A Multimedia Presentation Of Dance, Art Video
The Cutting Edge (No, Not The Arts Festival) — Hand-Made Tales
Lear
Pichet Klunchun And Myself
The Trojan Women
RPM (Revolution-Per-Minute)
Theatre Carnival On The Hill
13.13.13
The Flying Circus Project (2013): Burmese Days
National Broadway Company
Mergers and Accusations (SPH Young Playwrights Series 2)
To My Heart With Smiles
Six Of The Best
The Complete Space Traveller’s Guide To Singapore (Abridged)
A Beautiful Companion
Writers’ Lab – 5 Under 25 (Book Launch), Singapore Young Dramatists Award & 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (Dramatised Readings) (2003)
Workhorse Afloat
Dreamkeepers: Avenue Of Dream & Second Chance (Double Bill)
When Hearts Meet
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2007)
like the cat sitting on the edge of an ocean of milk, hoping to lap it all up
Mad Forest
Lise Nellemann & Janos Fodor Residency
Sammy Won’t Go To School (Directors’ Laboratory)
Awaking
Broken Birds: An Epic Longing
The Spirits Play
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Saying Grace
The Flying Circus Project (2010)
Sandaime Richard (November & December 2016)
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 2 (The Free Voice) (1991)
Beauty World
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2008)
Therese Raquin
Ho Tzu Nyen Residency – Talk on the Making of HERE
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2006)
Jonathan Seow Residency — Resuscitation: Call, Submission, Installation & Fashion Presentation
The Flying Circus Project – Platform 02: Journey To The Moon (2009)
Be My Sushi Tonight
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2019)
Goh Lay Kuan & Kuo Pao Kun
120
RE/PLAY Dance Edit
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2002)
Dust: A Recollection
Hot Dogs And Eternal Triangles
Writers’ Lab Greenhouse – Dramatised Reading (2006)
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2010)
Nowhere Man
Fever Room (Curators Academy)
Vivien & The Shadows
Ma: Moment
Three Children (1992)
A Wonderful Weekend
Insomnia@ICA, The Singapore Season, London (2005)
Three Children
VISTA Lab 1.0 – Impetus
The Cutting Edge (No, Not The Arts Festival) — The Yang Family
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Singapore Young Dramatists Award (2004)
Rizman Putra Residency — The Elegy Of A Man And His Weapon Of Choice (The Hyperbolic Alpha Male)
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2001)
Indulgence
Night Festival — New World 2010
FARM Residency — Rojak 04
Search: Hamlet
Mixed Signals
Not Afraid To Remember
Scorpion Orchid
David Hwang Festival — The Dance And The Railroad & The Sound Of A Voice (Double Bill)
Love & Belachan: The Creative Director, The Last of the Red-Hot Lovers, Love & Belachan
Madame Mao’s Memories
Fear Of Writing
Miss Julie
The Flying Circus Project – Platform 01: Expo Zero (Musee de la Danse) (2009)
Us In Singapore
SoftMachine
The Way Of Violence (Directors’ Laboratory)
Sandaime Richard
The Continuum Asia Project (2003)
Serunding (December 2010–January 2011)
Bima Labuh
The Global Soul (2006)
Dirty Laundry (SPH Young Playwrights Series 2)
Machine
The Good Person of Szechuan
The First Emperor’s Last Days
Deborah Pollard Residency — Shapes of Sleep (Asialink Residency)
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 7 (1995)
Pulse
M. Butterfly
Fourplays: ABCD
Three Fat Virgins Unassembled (SPH Young Playwrights Series 1) (1992)
LIFT: Love Is Flower The
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2013)
Mixed Signals (1997)
Lao Jiu (1994)
Safe Sex: As If He Hears & Jackson On A Jaunt (Double Bill)
Diaspora
50/50
Drift Net
Writers’ Lab – Dramatised Readings (2009 & 2010)
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Mixed; & Dramatised Reading (2017)
Block 20 – The Continuum: Ancient Technologies, Borders And Transcendence (featuring EXOTICA!)
Marriage Of Inconvenience
Metamorphosis
Urban Fetishes
The Retrospective: A Festival Of Singapore Plays 1960–1990
The Lady Of Soul And Her Ultimate ‘S’ Machine
Fanshen
Open Call – I Have Escaped Even Myself
Playfreely: The Transparency Of Turbulence
Lear (January-February 1999)
Writers’ Lab – Singapore Young Dramatists Award, 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Hearing Voices (2002)
Long Green Socks
Fried Rice Paradise
On Mercury’s Wings
TLAB
She Ain’t Heavy, She’s Reaching Into Space (Open Rehearsal) (April 2016)
Sandakan Threnody (June 2004)
Theatre Games
Nay Nai
24-Hour Playwriting Competition
Longing
Beauty World (1992)
The Global Soul (2005)
Of Babies (Not Really) And People
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: The Good Farmer (2018)
Haunted
Lim Tzay Chuen
Conversations on Diaspora
Da Vinci Project
Connection Barents
Destinies Of Flowers In The Mirror
The Silver River (2001)
Diaspora (2009)
Dapunta Hyang: Transmission Of Knowledge
The Diary Of Alice
The Elephant Man
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2012)
Charles Lim Residency — 72-13 Offsite (An Artistic Playground)
Writers’ Lab — 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2003)
Embarquez-Les
SPH Festival Of New Writing — Ginnie’s Favourite Colour, The Buried & Quiet The Gorilla (1996)
The Flying Circus Project (2004)
Three Fat Virgins Unassembled (1995)
Diary Of A Madwoman
Writers’ Lab — 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2000) & Singapore Young Dramatist Awards (2000/2001)
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2014)
GALA
Kantan & Hanjo (Double Bill)
Insomnia 48
Geisha
Watching The Clouds Go By (Directors’ Laboratory)
Reservoir
Chinoiserie
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Marco Polo
The Cutting Edge (No, Not The Arts Festival) — The Morning Star Project: Lucifer, Whisper, Composition B and The Blue Fish
Off Kilter
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Between Consciousness
The Happiness Event
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2015)
Meena And Me
Piaf
Shanty — Follow That Dream
Play On Earth
The Screw of Thought
Tan Pin Pin Residency — Invisible City: Screening & Talk
Connect Connect
The Flying Circus Project (Special Edition 2005, Yokohama): The School of Politics
The Roundest Circle
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2003)
Molissa Fenley: Contemporary Dance From New York
A Wonderful Weekend (2019)
Under The Bed
Army Daze (The Film) (1996)
Writers’ Lab — Community Project: Serunding (2014)
Mortal Sins
She Ain’t Heavy, She’s Reaching Into Space (July 2016)
Sandakan Threnody (September & October 2004)
The Flying Circus Project (2000)
Wills & Secession
A Wonderful Weekend (2018)
Writers’ Lab: Singapore Young Dramatists Award & 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2006)
Madame Mao’s Memories (1992)
Open Call — Studio Prive
Green Socks
Young Curators Academy
The Flying Circus Project (1996)
Writers’ Lab Month – Playwriting Workshops, Dramatised Readings, 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2018)
The Global Soul
A.I.
Ancient Technologies, Dramaturgy, And Game
Desdemona (2001)
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2011)
The Incredible Adventures of Border Crossers
‘Til The End Of The World, We’ll Meet In No Man’s Land
In Transit (2003)
Incarnation Of The Beast
Lear Dreaming
Descendants Of The Eunuch Admiral (1995)
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Balance
Serunding (August–September 2011)
Friends’ Season
What the Body Remembers. Dance Heritage Today
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2016)
N.O.W. — Not Ordinary Work (2019)
Opening of 72-13
Rashomon
Love Love Remote Control (Work-In-Progress)
Archiving Dance
Space Monkeys
Flying Circus Project: TRAVELOGUE (2007)
Retrospective
Undercover
Descendants Of The Eunuch Admiral (1996)
Dance Dance Dance
Army Daze
María José Arjona Residency — Irregular Hexagon
Private Parts
Pan Island Expressway
Lao Jiu (1997)
Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder (SPH Young Playwrights Series 1)
Open Call — Fly By Night (2006)
My Lonely Tarts
Because, The Night
Cat Hope Residency: Artist Talk, Showing, Concert & Voyeurages
The Reunification Of The Two Koreas
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (October 2001)
A Night Out With Michael Chiang — Love & Belachan, Beauty Box And Heaven II (Triple Bill)
Writers’ Lab — 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2010)
Sandaime Richard (September 2016)
Holier Then How
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2008)
Dance For Nothing
Half Lives
Talk by Rirkrit Tiravanija
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2005)
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (1999)
SPH Young Playwrights Series 3 — Cards, Ordinary Woman, Will You Please Jump?, The Can Opener, and Will You Be There?
Sublime Monsters And Virtual Children
Muna Tseng Residency: Stella’s Room
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2011)
In Transit (2002)
Paradise Heights
Beauty World (February 1998)
The Making of A Geisha: Talk by Liza Dalby
Ozone
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 5 (1993)
Occupy the Museum
The Gift (Theatre-in-Education Programme)
Under The Volcano
Beauty World (10th Anniversary Production) (April 1998)
Geisha
Lao Jiu
Cetecea & Breaking Through (Double Bill) (SPH Young Playwrights Series 2)
Le Temps Scellé And Le Trait Solos (Double Bill)
The Four Trunks (Directors’ Laboratory)
Seams Of Change: Clothing and the Care of the Self in Late 19th- and 20th-Century Cambodia
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 1 (1991)
VISTA Lab 2.0 – Interference
Comrade Mayor
Is Performance The Future Craft Of The 21st Century?
Eloquence
Pop Friction
Light In The Village
Open Call — Future Of Imagination 4
Ang Tau Mui, A Modern Woman
The Flying Circus Project (1998)
Spektr!
Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral (1998)
Got To Go… Play Till Dawn
Lear Dreaming (2015)
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 6 (1994)
Nachtgesichter: Visions Of The Night
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2007)
A Beautiful Companion
Playfreely: The Transparency Of Turbulence
Long Green Socks
In Transit (2003)
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2010)
Haunted
Us In Singapore
Of Babies (Not Really) And People
Ancient Technologies, Dramaturgy, And Game
Fourplays: ABCD
Open Call — Studio Prive
The Way Of Violence (Directors’ Laboratory)
Writers’ Lab — 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2003)
Writers’ Lab Greenhouse – Dramatised Reading (2006)
Molissa Fenley: Contemporary Dance From New York
Piaf
On Mercury’s Wings
VISTA Lab 1.0 – Impetus
Connect Connect
Because, The Night
Talk by Rirkrit Tiravanija
Nay Nai
RPM (Revolution-Per-Minute)
Writers’ Lab – Dramatised Readings (2009 & 2010)
The Good Person of Szechuan
Brian Gothong Tan Residency — Signs, Omens And Relics Of Faith
Writers’ Lab – 5 Under 25 (Book Launch), Singapore Young Dramatists Award & 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (Dramatised Readings) (2003)
Under The Volcano
SPH Young Playwrights Series 3 — Cards, Ordinary Woman, Will You Please Jump?, The Can Opener, and Will You Be There?
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: The Good Farmer (2018)
Reservoir
The Reunification Of The Two Koreas
The First Emperor’s Last Days
The Flying Circus Project (2013): Burmese Days
Miss Julie
Pichet Klunchun And Myself
Diaspora
Scorpion Orchid
Pulse
SoftMachine
Writers’ Lab — 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2010)
Madame Mao’s Memories (1992)
A Wonderful Weekend (2019)
Connection Barents
Embarquez-Les
Army Daze (The Film) (1996)
The Global Soul (2006)
Cetecea & Breaking Through (Double Bill) (SPH Young Playwrights Series 2)
Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral (1998)
Three Fat Virgins Unassembled (1995)
Ho Tzu Nyen Residency – Talk on the Making of HERE
Open Call — Future Of Imagination 4
Rizman Putra Residency — The Elegy Of A Man And His Weapon Of Choice (The Hyperbolic Alpha Male)
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2016)
Beauty World (February 1998)
Holier Then How
50/50
Safe Sex: As If He Hears & Jackson On A Jaunt (Double Bill)
A Wonderful Weekend
Insomnia 48
Green Socks
Meena And Me
In Transit (2002)
National Broadway Company
David Hwang Festival — The Dance And The Railroad & The Sound Of A Voice (Double Bill)
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 7 (1995)
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2005)
Beauty World (1992)
Lise Nellemann & Janos Fodor Residency
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2015)
Le Temps Scellé And Le Trait Solos (Double Bill)
Insomnia@ICA, The Singapore Season, London (2005)
Dance For Nothing
Geisha
FARM Residency — Rojak 04
Lao Jiu (1994)
Sandaime Richard (November & December 2016)
The Cutting Edge (No, Not The Arts Festival) — Hand-Made Tales
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2008)
Goldfish Is Meant For Dying
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 6 (1994)
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Three Inches Of Alive
Open Call – I Have Escaped Even Myself
Pan Island Expressway
Marriage Of Inconvenience
Opening of 72-13
Nachtgesichter: Visions Of The Night
The Lady Of Soul And Her Ultimate ‘S’ Machine
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2007)
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2007)
Metamorphosis
LIFT: Love Is Flower The
Madame Mao’s Memories
Writers’ Lab — Community Project: Serunding (2014)
Lim Tzay Chuen
Occupy the Museum
The Global Soul (2005)
Mixed Signals (1997)
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2011)
13.13.13
The Maids & Diary Of A Madman (Double Bill)
The Screw of Thought
Writers’ Lab Month – Playwriting Workshops, Dramatised Readings, 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2018)
GALA
Young Curators Academy
Longing
Charles Lim Residency — 72-13 Offsite (An Artistic Playground)
The Spirits Play
Therese Raquin
Indulgence
SPH Festival Of New Writing — Ginnie’s Favourite Colour, The Buried & Quiet The Gorilla (1996)
The Cutting Edge (No, Not The Arts Festival) — The Morning Star Project: Lucifer, Whisper, Composition B and The Blue Fish
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Paradise Heights
Block 20 – The Continuum: Ancient Technologies, Borders And Transcendence (featuring EXOTICA!)
Chinoiserie
Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder (SPH Young Playwrights Series 1)
Lear Dreaming
Descendants Of The Eunuch Admiral (1996)
Workhorse Afloat
Six Of The Best
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2012)
Incarnation Of The Beast
The Gift (Theatre-in-Education Programme)
Mortal Sins
Theatre Games
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (1999)
Seams Of Change: Clothing and the Care of the Self in Late 19th- and 20th-Century Cambodia
To My Heart With Smiles
Muna Tseng Residency: Stella’s Room
Descendants Of The Eunuch Admiral (1995)
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2013)
A Wonderful Weekend (2018)
Theatre Carnival On The Hill
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2006)
Dance Dance Dance
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 2 (The Free Voice) (1991)
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2019)
The Making of A Geisha: Talk by Liza Dalby
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (October 2001)
Wills & Secession
Three Children
Writers’ Lab – Singapore Young Dramatists Award, 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Hearing Voices (2002)
Play On Earth
Tan Pin Pin Residency — Invisible City: Screening & Talk
Da Vinci Project
The Incredible Adventures of Border Crossers
Pop Friction
Writers’ Lab: 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Singapore Young Dramatists Award (2005)
The Happiness Event
Serunding (August–September 2011)
The Roundest Circle
Urban Fetishes
Ozone
Lao Jiu
Dreamkeepers: Avenue Of Dream & Second Chance (Double Bill)
120
Drift Net
Hot Dogs And Eternal Triangles
Tintin Wulia Residency: The Adventures Of Flo & Kat
The Global Soul
Archiving Dance
Writers’ Lab — Charging Up Memory Lane: 30 Plays In 30 Days
Dirty Laundry (SPH Young Playwrights Series 2)
Watching The Clouds Go By (Directors’ Laboratory)
Love & Belachan: The Creative Director, The Last of the Red-Hot Lovers, Love & Belachan
The Flying Circus Project (2010)
Fear Of Writing
Mergers and Accusations (SPH Young Playwrights Series 2)
Love Love Remote Control (Work-In-Progress)
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 1 (1991)
Light In The Village
Lear Dreaming (2015)
She Ain’t Heavy, She’s Reaching Into Space (July 2016)
Sandakan Threnody (September & October 2004)
Sandaime Richard
The Flying Circus Project – Platform 01: Expo Zero (Musee de la Danse) (2009)
Alter Art: A Multimedia Presentation Of Dance, Art Video
Trip To The South
Deborah Pollard Residency — Shapes of Sleep (Asialink Residency)
Mad Forest
Half Lives
Spektr!
Beauty World (10th Anniversary Production) (April 1998)
like the cat sitting on the edge of an ocean of milk, hoping to lap it all up
Ang Tau Mui, A Modern Woman
Army Daze
Friends’ Season
Kantan & Hanjo (Double Bill)
The Flying Circus Project (Special Edition 2005, Yokohama): The School of Politics
The Retrospective: A Festival Of Singapore Plays 1960–1990
Serunding (December 2010–January 2011)
Grey Matters
Writers’ Lab: Singapore Young Dramatists Award & 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2006)
Got To Go… Play Till Dawn
The Flying Circus Project (1998)
Broken Birds: An Epic Longing
Private Parts
Sandaime Richard (September 2016)
Conversations on Diaspora
Mixed Signals
Night Festival — New World 2010
‘Til The End Of The World, We’ll Meet In No Man’s Land
Sammy Won’t Go To School (Directors’ Laboratory)
A.I.
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2002)
Flying Circus Project: TRAVELOGUE (2007)
Undercover
The Continuum Asia Project (2003)
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Singapore Young Dramatists Award (2004)
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2014)
The Elephant Man
Balance
N.O.W. — Not Ordinary Work (2019)
Search: Hamlet
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2008)
Destinies Of Flowers In The Mirror
Sublime Monsters And Virtual Children
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2003)
The Continuum Asia Project – Excavating Cultures And Memories (2005)
Open Call — Fly By Night (2006)
Be My Sushi Tonight
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 5 (1993)
Lear (January-February 1999)
Is Performance The Future Craft Of The 21st Century?
The Silver River (2001)
Retrospective
A Night Out With Michael Chiang — Love & Belachan, Beauty Box And Heaven II (Triple Bill)
Writers’ Lab — 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2000) & Singapore Young Dramatist Awards (2000/2001)
The Flying Circus Project – Platform 02: Journey To The Moon (2009)
Not Afraid To Remember
Awaking
Three Children (1992)
Geisha
The Cutting Edge (No, Not The Arts Festival) — The Yang Family
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Between Consciousness
Diary Of A Madwoman
VISTA Lab 2.0 – Interference
The Flying Circus Project (2004)
Beauty World
Fanshen
The Four Trunks (Directors’ Laboratory)
Dapunta Hyang: Transmission Of Knowledge
Under The Bed
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2011)
Fever Room (Curators Academy)
Space Monkeys
Eloquence
Diaspora (2009)
Machine
Bima Labuh
Rashomon
RE/PLAY Dance Edit
Comrade Mayor
Lao Jiu (1997)
Lear
Dust: A Recollection
TLAB
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Marco Polo
Off Kilter
Vivien & The Shadows
The Trojan Women
Fried Rice Paradise
24-Hour Playwriting Competition
Ma: Moment
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2001)
Shanty — Follow That Dream
What the Body Remembers. Dance Heritage Today
Nowhere Man
My Lonely Tarts
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Saying Grace
Sandakan Threnody (June 2004)
Jonathan Seow Residency — Resuscitation: Call, Submission, Installation & Fashion Presentation
She Ain’t Heavy, She’s Reaching Into Space (Open Rehearsal) (April 2016)
Writers’ Lab — 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2009)
Cat Hope Residency: Artist Talk, Showing, Concert & Voyeurages
The Flying Circus Project (1996)
María José Arjona Residency — Irregular Hexagon
Desdemona (2001)
Goh Lay Kuan & Kuo Pao Kun
The Flying Circus Project (2000)
When Hearts Meet
Desdemona
M. Butterfly
Three Fat Virgins Unassembled (SPH Young Playwrights Series 1) (1992)
The Complete Space Traveller’s Guide To Singapore (Abridged)
The Diary Of Alice
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Mixed; & Dramatised Reading (2017)
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Key Words

Abolition of Feudalism, Ambition, Bianzhong Bells, Biography, Book-Burning, Commissioned Writing, Conflict, Contradiction, Corruption, Cowardice, Dilemma, Dissident, Double Narrative, Fear, First Emperor, Government Hack, Great Wall of China, House Arrest, Immortality, Journalist, Legalism, Marquis Yi, Megalomania, Memory Capsule, Multiple Perspectives, Negotiation, Official Record, Paranoia, Poet, Power, Price of Truth, Punishment, Qin Shihuang, Quartet, Record of Truths, shiji, Sima Qian, Stress, Surveillance, The Expanded Play, Threat, Truth-Telling, Workaholic, Writing Under Pressure,


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Four writers – a dissident, a poet, a journalist and a government hack – are under house arrest, ordered to write the living biography of the First Emperor of China. Confined to write the authorised biography of the Son of Heaven is a task laden with dangers. A psychological twister, the smell of death permeates the stifling writers’ lair. The scent of suspense is thick with waifs of espionage. History, truth, a severed head, and power are the ingredients of this multimedia story.

Four writers are confined somewhere in our past, present and future. They carry out their imperial duties in a space warp void of everyday distractions such as time, daylight, or the four seasons. They must write the definitive story while the Emperor still lives. They write with uncertainty. Each stroke of the pen, click of the keyboard, and fleeting thought is being recorded. This is the digital age of surveillance. Who exactly is watching? Who is manipulating? Who is in charge? The Emperor has done many great things, but oh, the terrible, cruel things he has also done. So what does one write? Especially if one loves life, and truth, but the price of truth is death.

Presented as part of the Singapore Festival of Arts 1998.



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Alternate History
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Collaboration
,
Live Stage Action
,
Live Video Feed
,
Multiple Narratives
,
Non-Linear Narrative
,
Singapore Writing
,
Technology and Art
,
Theatre
,
Location:>
Victoria Theatre, Singapore, Singapore
/
Date:>
13 - 14 June 1998
/
People:>
Director:
Ong Keng Sen
,
.
Writer:
Tan Tarn How
,
.
Video:
Paul Wong
,
.
Set Design:
Pierre Thibaudeau
,
.
Light Design:
Kuo Jian Hong
,
.
Costume Design:
Hayden Ng
,
.
Sound Design:
Ong Keng Sen
,
Tamura Tomoyuki
,
.
Performers:
Karen Tan
,
Koh Boon Pin
,
Lim Yu Beng
,
Ravi Veloo
,
.
Producer:
Tay Tong.
Production Management:
Elvan Ong, Tan Lay Hoon, Tommy Wong.
Stage Management:
Florence Wee.
Structural Engineer:
John Portwood.
Video Production Assistants:
Chong Chee Yin, Juliana Mattar, Nisha D Khemlani, Selvam s/o Gopaldass.
Lighting:
Tiang Oon Kheng.
Sound:
Adrian Chong, Jacinda Chew.
Props:
Lucilla Teoh, Wendy Lim.
Stage Crew:
Elizabeth Goh, Gabriel Cher, Ian Tan, Julian Teo, Lili Chin, Supriya Rao, Tan Jun Han
.
Collaterals:
Henrick Lau, Lawrence Siow.
Commissioned By:>
T:>Works
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Produced, Managed or Presented By:>
T:>Works
,
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