Now Then Again really spoke to my heart when I read it, when I read it. Here was a beautiful (and smart) love story about two human beings challenged with the burden of choice. Yet, in the mysterious world of quantum physics, choice is just one possibility. In quantum physics, there is always an opposite […]
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I’m really excited to be directing another show for the NUS Arts Festival. This time, it’s a work by Penny Penniston called Now Then Again.
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I got a call from Liansheng sometime in January 2015. Last I had worked with Liansheng was as an actor for The Boy Inside. This time, he asked if I wanted to direct the NUS Arts Festival opening show featuring Jeremy Monteiro. He was writing text around jazz favorites. The show would be called Words […]
Read more "Words and Music"Ah Huat: Me, a pathfinder. And which is my own path? What road am I travelling on, where am I heading? The sky. And you, the moon. You look as if you are always up there. It’s hard to imagine that you’ll ever wane, ever eclipse. And the stars, so fixed in the sky. Such […]
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Welcome to MEDEA The journey to this moment where we now share in The Substation Theatre has been a relentless one. It began 18 month’s ago in a room upstairs with me trying to put to words, and question, why theatre matters. That question brought me to Bangkok to meet Tua Pradit Prasartthong, who showed […]
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Tan Shou Chen 