The two April plays are staged by Checkpoint Theatre and The Theatre Practice.
Checkpoint Theatre's associate artist weish and Theatre Practice associate artist Isabella Chiam are making their writing debuts in April.
Double-hatting as both playwright and composer for a full musical for the first time, the 33-year-old confesses that she “struggled with it at the start”, but she has found this “intensively collaborative” process – with director Huzir Sulaiman and the massive cast of 12 actors – meaningful. “It’s moved me a lot. Writing it, I thought that these were very specific stories. Then, one day in workshop, Huzir opened the floor for everybody to talk about their own relationship to their secondary school memories,” says weish, who recalls an anecdote by a cast member who, even in her late 20s, continues to have nightmares over a single mathematics examination in school.
“Without talking very politically about it, I just wanted the story to capture this small moment of their lives – what it really looks like on the ground day to day – while interrogating these big questions.” While the story is fictional, Chiam draws from her life. She picked up gardening during the pandemic and found it was another way to bond with her father. “You know, that generation doesn’t really express themselves a lot in terms of care. That’s the way they try to strike up a conversation. It was just nice for him to have one more thing to bond with me over.”
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