Boom
From: Wednesday, 21st October 2009
To: Saturday, 24 October 2009
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Synopsis
The living and the dead jostle for space as the economy booms and development runs riot. An old woman who refuses to move battles her estate agent son, while a psychic civil servant has problems persuading a stubborn corpse to relocate.
Our Review:
22 October 2009
‘Home is where the heart is’: this is the nothing-new theme at the core of British East Asian theatre company Yellow Earth’s Boom. With a cast of five, and two intertwined storylines, the play explores what makes home so important, and why we get so emotionally attached to our bricks and mortar. Although, aren't we are all agreed on this already?
The play is set in Singapore in 2008; economic boom has created a need for property that the crowded city cannot provide. A young property developer is trying to convince his mother to leave the tumbledown family home, which is to be redeveloped, and a ghost-whispering civil servant clashes with an uncooperative talking corpse, who is reluctant to conform to plans to relocate his cemetery. The actors slip easily between roles, and between past and present; as performers, they are fluid; their characters’ opinions on their dwellings, however, are not.
The basic tension lie...
Creative
Jean Tay (Singapore) (Author)
Yellow Earth Theatre (Company)
Philippe Cherbonnier (Director)
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