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Artist Spotlight: Han Xuemei and Jean Tay, Collaborators on Drama Box’s MISSING

New Year’s got you down, feeling a little lost with no direction? Drama Box has just the cure for you, as they present their newest work MISSING: The City of Lost Things this January. Taking on an all new experimental form, each 4 hour session held at Drama Box’s headquarters in Chinatown will see audiences embarking on a personal journey into their past, attempting to reconnect with moment … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Han Xuemei and Jean Tay, Collaborators on Drama Box’s MISSING

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Review: Boom by (aside)

Since its inception in 2008, Jean Tay’s Boom has become a seminal text keenly representing our country’s insatiable thirst for fancy new things and our forgotten heritage, told through the parallel stories of a property agent and his mother, and a civil servant and a literal unidentified corpse. Weaving in Hokkien with English, past with present, and a touch of magical realism, Boom is a poignant, powerful work that … Continue reading Review: Boom by (aside)

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Preview: Boom by (aside) – Yale-NUS Repertory Theatre Company

This November, Yale-NUS’ Repertory Theatre Company (aside) presents an all new production of Jean Tay’s Boom. Written by economist-turned-playwright Tay, Boom was first performed in 2008 by the Singapore Repertory Theatre, where tt was nominated for Best Original Script for The Straits Times’ Life! Theatre Awards, Boom has since gone on to become an ‘O’- and ‘N’-Level Literature text in Singapore schools. Set in a surreal yet familiar version of Singapore, Boom takes … Continue reading Preview: Boom by (aside) – Yale-NUS Repertory Theatre Company

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