Progress vs tradition redux, 14 years on
Two Singapore theatre companies restage updated plays, marking the passage of time but yet also underscoring the continuing relevance of classic themes.
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THEATRE company Toy Factory Productions (TFP) is revisiting a play that it last mounted 14 years ago.
Prism explores the struggle between "development and progress" and the erosion of a nation's heritage and culture.
It was first commissioned by the Japan's Kageboushi Theatre Company in 2003, as a six-country collaboration, but that was a more abstract rendering of the theme as it was presented in the region as a multi-cultural theatrical performance.
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