Open Roads: Turn By Turn We Turn

Turn By Turn We Turn
Chong Tze Chien
Saturday 28 May 2011, 2-5pm
The Substation Classroom 2
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, present the second season of Open Roads: Stage Talk. 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 Turn By Turn We Turn

The Finger Players’ Turn By Turn We Turn is a sweeping epic that follows the lives of the members of a traditional Chinese hand puppetry troupe from 1920s China to the present day. It will run 14 – 23 April 2011 at the Drama Centre Black Box.

Currently the Company Director of The Finger Players, Chong Tze Chien came to public notice in 1998 when his play, Pan Island Expressway (PIE), took the first prize in the Singapore Dramatist Award and was subsequently staged by TheatreWorks to critical and commercial success. He has gone on to script such acclaimed works as Between The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Poop and Charged.