Arts writer and theatre critic Corrie Tan invites Singaporean playwright Alfian Bin Sa’at into the Living Room for an evening’s conversation about his life and work.
Alfian is well-known for frank, insightful and provocative literary and dramatic works, written in English and Malay. As the Resident Playwright of W!LD RICE, he has written acclaimed plays such as the Asian Boys trilogy (2000, 2004, 2007), Cooling-Off Day (2011), and the historical epic Hotel (2015, co-writer). Alfian is also an author with published collections of short stories and poems such as Corridor (1999) and The Invisible Manuscript (2012). He is a four-time winner of Best Original Script at the annual M1-The Straits Times Life Theatre Awards and a 2001 recipient of the National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award for Literature.
Corrie was a journalist with The Straits Times covering the arts and theatre scene in Singapore for the past six years. She was also on the judging panel for the Life Theatre Awards.
Join Corrie and Alfian as they talk about his growth as a writer, the issues he explores in his work, and writing for English and Malay theatre.
The Living Room is a programme by Centre 42 that welcomes chat and conversation. Through focused but casual dialogues and face-to-face exchanges, this programme encourages participants to re-examine trends, happenings, people (on & off-stage) and phenomena in Singapore theatre.
