Saturday, October 14, 2006
Checklist
Just taking stock of my playwrighting exploits:
1. Deipnosophist
Justin and Anton, two precocious junior college boys are divided by the unkind forces of elitism. Will a brokeback encounter over the dining table heal the social breach and bring romance to them? Or will it threaten to sequester them further? Indeed "love is like oxygen", but will it be enough to feed the "fires of our reality"?
Status: Completed
Accolades: Singapore Youth Dramatist Award 2006 (3rd placing, Cat B)
2. Nature's Carnival
When the human condition is stripped away, the only thing that remains is the spectacular, animalistic roar ripping through the ossified world of morals, principles and cages- built to the chagrin of nature. A sensually-charged play helmed by an amoral roue, the consequences become terrifying only when a fatal virus takes hold of nihilism.
Status: In Progress
3. Durian King
Absurdism invades the Teck Durian Empire at Teck's expiring moments. Meet Shakespeare's fool as he prances around the Sarong Party Women of Teck's household and negotiate the difficult (and incestuous) relationships that run rabid in the family. More than the family fortunes are at stake here as the fragile family ties of Teck's household continue to loosen and tear apart.
Status: Completed; To be developed into a full-length play.
4. Fourplay
A poet, a feminist, a fitness freak and a mugger move out of society to establish their own civillisation deep in the tropical forests of Pulau Ubin. Politics become aggresive as friendship, love and communication breaks down to the regulations they have imposed on themselves, designed by the insecurities of the dynastic dystopia they have been brought up in. Will they create another dystopia for themselves now that they have a new chance at life or will events culminate the same way as before?
Status: In Progress
5. A Play With Music
A Play With Music is a play with music, sung by only a single character who thinks he is playing a part in a musical- while the other people merely speak their mind, he sings his. But music keeps ringing in his head that he often finds himself standing at the edge of the possibility where he will shoot himself in the head one day- if music doesn't shut the hell up.
Status: Work to start soon
6. Never the Winner
The courtroom drama will bring to the stand, underacheiver Denver Lee, where he will be cross-examined by the persecution on charges of being the Loser Of The Century. See him put up a futile defence.
Status: Work to start soon
cuRRent...jer
¶ 11:04 pm
Just taking stock of my playwrighting exploits:
1. Deipnosophist
Justin and Anton, two precocious junior college boys are divided by the unkind forces of elitism. Will a brokeback encounter over the dining table heal the social breach and bring romance to them? Or will it threaten to sequester them further? Indeed "love is like oxygen", but will it be enough to feed the "fires of our reality"?
Status: Completed
Accolades: Singapore Youth Dramatist Award 2006 (3rd placing, Cat B)
2. Nature's Carnival
When the human condition is stripped away, the only thing that remains is the spectacular, animalistic roar ripping through the ossified world of morals, principles and cages- built to the chagrin of nature. A sensually-charged play helmed by an amoral roue, the consequences become terrifying only when a fatal virus takes hold of nihilism.
Status: In Progress
3. Durian King
Absurdism invades the Teck Durian Empire at Teck's expiring moments. Meet Shakespeare's fool as he prances around the Sarong Party Women of Teck's household and negotiate the difficult (and incestuous) relationships that run rabid in the family. More than the family fortunes are at stake here as the fragile family ties of Teck's household continue to loosen and tear apart.
Status: Completed; To be developed into a full-length play.
4. Fourplay
A poet, a feminist, a fitness freak and a mugger move out of society to establish their own civillisation deep in the tropical forests of Pulau Ubin. Politics become aggresive as friendship, love and communication breaks down to the regulations they have imposed on themselves, designed by the insecurities of the dynastic dystopia they have been brought up in. Will they create another dystopia for themselves now that they have a new chance at life or will events culminate the same way as before?
Status: In Progress
5. A Play With Music
A Play With Music is a play with music, sung by only a single character who thinks he is playing a part in a musical- while the other people merely speak their mind, he sings his. But music keeps ringing in his head that he often finds himself standing at the edge of the possibility where he will shoot himself in the head one day- if music doesn't shut the hell up.
Status: Work to start soon
6. Never the Winner
The courtroom drama will bring to the stand, underacheiver Denver Lee, where he will be cross-examined by the persecution on charges of being the Loser Of The Century. See him put up a futile defence.
Status: Work to start soon
cuRRent...jer
¶ 11:04 pm
