Interview with Kee Thuan Chye

And there's coverage of "Angel-ism" and "Tree/House" in today's Life!, too!

Well, no wonder Laremy and Julian haven't been blogging...

They don't need to! "Own Time Own Target" has sold out every show!!!

Now how can I beg/borrow/steal myself a ticket?

Life! Thursday 10 July 2008

STF was featured as the cover story - big focus on the first-time playwrights like Laremy Lee, Julian Wong, Ken Kwek and Danny Yeo (though mysteriously next to nothing about Mohd Zulfadi Rashid).

Scanner, anyone? (Actually, the W!ld Rice people will get it up on their site in no time.)

UPDATE: Laremy's shared a link to the online story here.

Come One, Come All!

I'm finally doing as a good free-range netizen should and inviting all the directors and playwrights of STF '08 - all the cast and crew eventually, maybe - to get on this virtual wagon and blogalong with me.

Why? Because I believe there's a great crop of plays in this year's festival, and it'd be plain evil of me to dominate this blog with my admonitions to buy tickets to "The Last Temptation of Stamford Raffles" (buy tickets from Sistic HERE!!!).

Instead, I'd like someone from every single one of the shows to be up here, documenting the rehearsal process, bump-in, performance trauma, critical response, and audience feedback. Sure, I'll pay visits to the other folks' shows, but I can't write it all myself.

(Maybe there'll even be someone who knows some basic html, so we can get this blog template looking a little less like patriotic shite. Whaddayasay?)

Anyway, here's some shots I took at the W!ld Rice second production meeting yesterday. Dig it.





(I'm not going to say whose set that's a mock-up of, so the curious will be forced to buy tickets to every single frickin' show to find out.)

I do also have one of my director Christina Sergeant over curry, but she'd murder me if I featured it. Today she grilled me over the unsubtlety of two of my expository lines and the general excresence of Scene Thirteen. I floundered a defence, but there'll be more to come.

Ooh! My leading man's flying in from Mumbai today! Can't wait.

We have a Festival Guide.

I suppose I should have touted the spankin' new website when it came out, but I've been lazy I was also a little iffy about the poster design for my play, "The Last Temptation of Stamford Raffles".

But no more fear! I'm just back from NYC and I can see there's been progress in my absence, because a glossy new 26-page Festival Booklet has been printed, with a gorgeous design, and the good ol' Festival '08 squirming on the front in all its glory:



And now that I'm seeing it blown up, I actually really like my poster.



All is well.