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In May 1999, The Necessary Stage worked with Paddy Chew to stage a monologue titled Completely With/Out Character at the Drama Centre on Fort Canning Hill. The docutheatre piece records his experience as the first person in Singapore to come out publicly with his HIV positive status.
With/Out is a faithful interpretation of Paddy's monologue. Through the use of multimedia, video documentation and other archival material, Loo Zihan will reconstruct the production as an extension of his research into performance reenactments, the mediation of a 'live' presence via the use of technology, and the revisioning of queer histories in Singapore.
With/Out was developed in residence at Centre 42.
