A simple yet strong premise that sets the foundation for a better play in future One of the most pertinent events to have surrounded the issue of race is perhaps none other than Rachel Dolezal, the Caucasian woman who lived a life pretending to be black, drawing flak for the lie, yet was an outspoken vocalist for civil rights. It’s an issue that shows that … Continue reading Review: Master Race by Myle Yan Tay
Earlier this month we were pleasantly surprised by a highly competent production of Jean Tay’s Boom by a group of students from Yale-NUS. We thought this was the kind of thing that comes by only every so often, but evidently we were wrong, having proverbial lightning strike twice with Myle Yan Tay and Nathaniel Mah’s new musical tackling office life: Overtime. Overtime is the rare … Continue reading Review: Overtime by Myle Yan Tay and Nathaniel Mah
Yale-NUS students Myle Yan Tay and Nathaniel Mah will be presenting an all new musical this November. Titled Overtime, the original musical follows best friends Finch, an employee in the Ministry of Competency and Alex, an aspiring playwright. Both of them dream of success, but while Finch keeps getting his promotions, Alex struggles, and a rift begins to form between the two friends. https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FOvertimeMusical%2Fvideos%2F1959933290931198%2F&show_text=0&width=400 Can the two maintain … Continue reading Preview: Overtime by Myle Yan Tay and Nathaniel Mah
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)
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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