Compassionate look at tenants' struggles
Add BT as a preferred sourceOLIVER Chong made a splash in the theatre scene this year when his Mandarin play Roots scooped the Best Script and Production Of The Year awards at the Life! Theatre Awards.
The one-man play tells the real-life story of Chong's search for his family's ancestry in China. Although the production was very small, the story had a humanity and universality that transcended its production scale.
It is with high expectations then that audiences watched Chong's new Mandarin play Citizen Pig last weekend, a collaboration with fellow writer-director-actor Liu Xiaoyi and staged by the Finger Players. Like Roots, Citizen Pig also employs gentle humour and pathos as it depicts the real-life struggles of Singapore tenants at the hands of mercenary landlords.
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