Two's Company, or Peter's Passionate Pursuit presented by the Experimental Theatre Club, won joint first prize in the inaugural Short Play Competition organised by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore and the Shell Group of Companies
in 1986.
The original script has been developed through intensive workshopping by the author working in collaboration with actors, director and production crew. Peter's Passionate Pursuit brings together, for the first time since the 1970s, two of Singapore's finest actors, Raymond Ong and David Gabriel, in the lead roles of ‘Gabe’ and ‘Beel' respectively.
The play centres upon two antithetical characters — Gabe (no doubt identified with morality, goodness, authority and the like), and Beel (no doubt identified with everything opposite). They monitor and manipulate the unsuspecting Peter, an undergraduate student with the
normal, healthy pre-occupations of a 22-year old — work, women and the precarious balance between the two.
After a series of scheming manoeuvers, during which Beel becomes as involved with Dee the secretary as he is with bis protégé's exploits, some uncomfortable and witty truths begin to unfold.