Por Por’s Big Fat Surprise Wedding delivers the laughs but fails gastronomically
The food at SRT’s dinner theatre production falls short of the script’s highs
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SET against the backdrop of a wedding dinner in a restaurant, Por Por’s Big Fat Surprise Wedding is Singapore Repertory Theatre’s (SRT) new dinner theatre production centred on a 70-year-old woman who rediscovers love late in life.
Despite the unimpressive food designed by chef Manjunath Mural (who helmed the now-defunct Michelin-starred Song of India), the show has been such a hit that it’s extended its run to Dec 3.
Koh Chieng Mun (former TV star of Under One Roof) plays the titular Por Por, who seems to have everything in life, from wealth to grandkids. But what she really misses is some love and romance. A genuine self-starter, she decides to take matters into her own hands by staging a wedding with a mystery groom – so mysterious, in fact, that even her own son (Edward Choy) doesn’t know his identity.
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