Square Moon sheds light on dark past

ACTOR Lim Kay Siu remembers the 1987 Marxist Conspiracy arrests all too well.

Having newly stepped into the world of theatre back then, he reacted with disbelief when five theatre practitioners from theatre company Third Stage were rounded up by the police and detained without trial. Other detainees included church lay workers, social workers and professionals.

"Just weeks before the arrests, I had seen a production by the Third Stage," he recalls. "The play was about the Social Development Unit, the organisation that's supposed to encourage Singaporeans to date and get married... The play was completely harmless, so I could not imagine how these people could be a threat to society."