A cautionary tale for the stock-option generation, Mammon Inc, a best-selling novel by Singapore novelist Tan Hwee Hwee, charts the life of 21-year-old Singaporean Chiah Deng, a recent graduate of Oxford University. Thrust into the depths of globalisation, torn between East and West, Chiah Deng gets an unexpected job offer at Mammon Inc. as an Adaptor – someone who teaches the rich and famous how to seamlessly cross cultures and fit in. To get the job, she will have to pass three tests. First she has to prove her worth by gatecrashing an ultra-glam Manhattan party, then transform her Ah Lian sister in Singapore into an Oxford debutante and her British flatmate Steve into a Phua Chu Kang!
A cosmopolitan satire set in Singapore, London and New York, Mammon Inc explores the crises of identity that beset those caught in-between unequal value systems based on culture and creed. This provocative parable investigating the Faustian dilemma and the dark temptations of the human soul adapted by playwright Eng Wee Ling and directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham, artistic director of ACTION Theatre, promises to entertain with equal parts of sass and satire.
