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.
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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