Life and death by a promising playwright

READING about the religious conflicts that have dominated headlines in recent years so fascinated 17-year-old Jovi Tan that he read as much as he could on the subject and even wrote a play about it.

Titled Marco Polo, the play deals with the afterlife and he finished writing it in 24 hours, winning the Student Category of TheatreWorks' long-running 24-hour Playwriting Competition last year. Written as an absurdist piece of theatre influenced by Harold Pinter…