"The Vault: Desert Blooms" is a lecture-performance tracing the history of Singapore theatre from 1985 to 1995 through a queer lens. It was during this period amidst laments of Singapore’s “cultural dessert” that bold queer and queer-allied voices quietly but insistently began proliferating across the local theatre scene.
Starting at the time when "Army Daze"’s Kenny Pereira first declared he could do a fabulous impersonation of Diana Ross (and the Supremes), through to when "Mergers and Accusations"’s Ellen met Lesley, the lesbian lawyer from London, "Desert Blooms" whizzes through a prickly but fruitful decade which yielded our earliest and most canonical LGBTQ-themed plays.
Created by researcher-writer Ng Yi-Sheng and directed by Tan Shou Chen, "Desert Blooms" not only refers to a whole host of colourful, groundbreaking plays, but reconstructs the contexts of early queer Singaporean theatre-making with historical materials and interviews with theatre practitioners. "Desert Blooms" will be brought to life by Rebekah Sangeetha Dorai, Yap Yi Kai and Izzul Irfan.
VENUE: Centre 42
ADDRESS: 42 Waterloo Street, Singapore 187951
EVENT WEBSITE: Facebook, Eventbrite (for registration)
DATE AND TIME
30 Nov 2019, 7.30pm
1 Dec 2019, 2.30pm and 7.30pm