A tale told through sounds, lights and objects
IF one of the things art does well is to force you to look more closely at the things you take for granted, then the performance-installation OneTwoSix is an apt cocoon for you to meditate on everyday life in.
There, in the confines of the Drama Centre Black Box, you'll find a man surrounded by familiar and mundane objects, such as possibly a toilet bowl, a fan or a fire extinguisher. Though the man (played by Ong Kian Sin) does not say a word, his life is narrated by the sights of and the sounds made by these various objects. Through these, a story gradually emerges.
Made by lesser artists, OneTwoSix might be an experiment that is at best, indecipherable, and at worst, unbearable. But the work is produced by well-regarded theatre company The Finger Players and created by three of the finest theatre designers in Singapore - so one can't help but be intrigued.
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