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Helmi Yusof
When theatre company Pangdemonium debuted its complex immigration drama Dragonflies in 2017, the play swept up all the major awards at The Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards, including Best Production and Best Script by Stephanie Street. The company is bringing back the play for a three-week run at the Victoria Theatre with a star-studded cast that includes Adrian Pang, Tan Kheng Hua and Frances Lee.
Dragonflies - a reference to insects that travel vast distances to lay their eggs - tells a story set in the near future of a Singaporean family torn apart by the forces of climate change, populist politics and shifting immigration laws. Adrian Pang plays a man forced to leave his home in England and return to his birth country Singapore, which has become tainted by nationalism and xenophobia. Directed by Tracie Pang, Dragonflies feels like a story ripped out of the pages of newspapers; it is topical, intelligent and potentially divisive.
Dragonflies plays at the Victoria Theatre from May 18 to June 3. Tickets from Sistic.
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