Open Roads: Balek Kampong

Open Roads: Stage Talk
Balek Kampong by Haresh Sharma
Saturday 23 April 2011
The Substation Classroom 1, 2-5pm
Admission: $10 available from the box office
Contact Mish’aal 6337 7800 / registration@substation.org
This is an InHouse event

The Substation and the online arts journal, The Flying Inkpot Theatre and Dance, are launching the second season of Open Roads: Stage Talk in April 2011. This reading club is a monthly platform for members of the public to come together and have a conversation about local plays. In 2010, Open Roads focussed on canonical local texts, but included this year, are new plays by Singaporean playwrights premiering in 2011.

Sessions will be facilitated by Matthew Lyon and Kenneth Kwok, editors of The Flying Inkpot Theatre and Dance. Refreshments will be provided. Copies of the script will be sent out to participants via email one-to-two weeks before the session for their pre-reading to facilitate discussion.

About Balek Kampong

A foreign journalist is taken to task after writing some objectionable articles. A university exchange student tries to organise a forum on campus and encounters obstacles. The lives of these unlikely individuals meet and intertwine in The Necessary Stage’s recent production, Balek Kampong.

Multiple award-winning playwright Haresh Sharma is the resident playwright with The Necessary Stage. He has written over 60 plays including Off-Centre, Fundamentally Happy, and Gemuk Girls.