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Blood Binds

Dates: - Bond-Age
& Just Late: Thur 21 Aug 8pm, Fri 22 Aug 8pm, Sat 23 Aug 3pm 2008
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Sperm & The Lunar Interviews: Sat 23 Aug 8pm, Sun 24 Aug
3pm & 8pm 2008
Venue: Drama Centre Black Box
Produced
by:
Magdalena (Singapore) and
The Substation as part of
W!ld Rice's
OCBC Singapore Theatre Festival 2008
Tickets: $35
from
SISTIC. Call 63485555 or visit
http://www.sistic.com.sg.
Discounts available for early birds, students, package bookings and
senior citizens.
What does it mean to be related by
blood? Is blood really thicker than water? What are the ties
that bind? Funny, moving and close to the heart of every parent
and child,
Blood Binds challenges and explodes easy
assumptions about parenthood through the lenses of age, desire
and myth.
Blood Binds comprises 4 recent
plays by seasoned Singaporean women playwrights:
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Bond-age by Ng Swee San
Feisty and fiercely independent
May is forced by circumstances to depend on mousey Agnes to
rescue her. Their little escapade forces them to confront their
feelings of guilt and resentment towards their families, and to
come to terms with aging and their evolving roles as mothers.
* Just Late by
Dora Tan
More than just a comedy about how
an old blind man ends up celebrating his 70th
birthday with robbers, Just
Late is about the realities of aging. It’s about
regret, tenuous family connections and the loss of control in
one’s life.
*
Sperm
by Tan Suet Lee
Margaret, 43, single and successful
wants a baby. Taking matters into her own hands she places an
advert. Rose, her mother, can't understand why she can't do it
the old fashioned way or why she would need a syringe. Fabian,
strong and good-looking, responds. Can he give Margaret what she
wants?
*
The Lunar Interviews by
Verena Tay
Through seven monologues, The
Lunar Interviews interweaves real life vignettes and moon
goddess myths—Chang Er, Diana, Hina—exploring the themes of
creation, nurturing, writing, men-women relationships, solitude,
loneliness, exile and the Moon. Provocative and captivating,
The Lunar Interviews humanises the mythic and brings the
mythic into everyday reality.
SPONSORS for
Blood Binds:
Main Sponsor:
Official
Stage Set Sponsor:

Production
Make-up:

With
additional support from:


World-in-Theatre
Haz Make-up & Hair
Blood
Binds is produced by:

Reflections on Magdalena Sin Fronteras II (8–18 Jan 2008)
During the recent Magdalena festival in Cuba,
Elizabeth de Roza presented a work demonstration, participated in a forum and conducted a workshop.
Click here to read her reflections
upon Magdalena Sin Fronteras II.
Play Pen
Monthly Meetings:
Last
Friday of every month, 7.30 pm
Venue: The Substation
Since the beginning of 2007, Magdalena
(Singapore) started a writing support group, called Play Pen, for its
members. As of January 2008, there were 6 registered members in Play
Pen. Currently, we are developing some plays scheduled for presentation
during the middle of 2008. |