Feedback Session between Singapore and London:




On Sunday, October 21, LoNyLa Singapore kicks off Velocity 2012 with a rehearsed reading /  online broadcast of "Between Us: The Untold Stories Behind the Sisters Islands," a new play by Jean Tay, directed by Drayton Alexander Hiers. Featuring Ann Summers Lek ("Eileen"), Zara Sophia ("Lina/Sunny/Yusef"), Amanda Tee ("Jenny/Orang Laut"), Rummana Yamanie ("Mina"). 

Time: 8PM - 10PM SGT. Location: NYU Tisch School of the Arts Asia. 3 Kay Siang Rd, Singapore, 248923

"The fates of two pairs of sisters are intertwined across time, in this juxtaposition of a mythic Singaporean fable and a real-life murder case. A lyrical, humorous and tragic exploration of the bonds that connect us to the ones we love."

Jean Tay graduated in 1997 with a double-degree in creative writing and economics from Brown University, USA. For her fiction, she was awarded the Weston Prize for Fiction from Brown, as well as the 1st and 3rd prizes for NAC's Golden Point Short Story competition in 1995 and 2001 respectively.

Her plays have been performed in Singapore, the US, the UK, and Italy. These include Water from the Well (1998), The Knot (1999), Plunge (2000), Everything but the Brain (2005, 2007) and Boom (2008). Jean has also written the books for the musicals “The Admiral’s Odyssey” (2005) and Man of Letters (2006), as well as the children's musical Pinocchio (2010). In 2000, The Knot was awarded 1st prize for Action Theatre's 10-minute Play Competition and selected as a finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville's 10-minute Play Contest. She has been nominated three times for Best Original Script for the Straits Times' Life! Theatre Awards, and won for the play Everything But the Brain in 2006.

From 2006-2009, Jean was attached to the Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT) as resident playwright. She participated in the month-long International Playwriting Residency organised by the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2007 and the LaMama International Playwriting Retreat in Umbria, Italy in 2010. Her play Boom is currently being used as an 'O' and 'N' Level literature text for high school students in Singapore.

"Between Us" was first seen as a reading at the Esplanade in 2011, and has since been revised by the playwright. Please do join us for this expanded version and let us know what you think.

As mentioned above, the reading is on 21 October, at 8 pm SGT, at the NYU Tisch Asia Black Box. At 7 pm SGT, we will turn on the cameras and have a mixer with artists who are gathering in London at Woolfson & Tay.

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