The Book of Living and Dying (2013)

By Charlotte, 29 March, 2021
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Antonio Ianniello
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Nambi E. Kelley
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Renny Goh
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Teatri Sbagliati
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A daughter faces her transvestite father’s impending death. However, her last lap with him does not come smoothly, as she unearths his suppressed secret which wreaks emotional hell on the parent-and-child relationship.

It is not the father’s penchant to cross dress that drives a wedge between the two — that is open knowledge. It is something else.

While the horrified daughter struggles with the emotions that run riot through her, her father, trying desperately to discern the meaning of life, is greeted by divine visions that connect him to the past.

During these moments, he realises that the kinship with his daughter was wrought not when he adopted her — but at the genesis of the universe.

They had spent numerous lifetimes together, not always as father and daughter, before settling on the tumultuous one they have today.

How many more hundreds, no, thousands of years more before the ties cease to exist?

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Produced by: Antonio Ianniello (Teatri Sbagliati), Chong Tze Chien (The Finger Players)
Director/Co-Playwright: Chong Tze Chien
Actors/Co-Playwrights: Antonio Ianniello, Nambi E. Kelley, Oliver Chong
Actors/Puppeteers: Ang Hui Bin, Ong Kian Sin, Tan Wan Sze

Lighting Designer: Lim Woan Wen
Music Composer/Sound Artist: Darren Ng
Vocals: Renny Goh, Yuan Zhiying
Puppetry Designers/Makers: Ang Hui Bin, Ong Kian Sin, Tan Beng Tian
Puppetry Designer/Contractor: Rene Ong

Production Stage Manager: Joanna Goh
Assistant Stage Manager: Nureen Raidah

Technical (Puppetry Lights) Consultant: Lim Wei Ling
Surtitles Operator: Tan Beng Tian
Makeup Artist: Haslina Ismail

(Source: Synopsis from The Finger Players Flyer and Credits from The Finger Players Programme)

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In the foreground, a person facing away from the camera. In the background, another person facing the first person, mouth open as if shouting. They are set against a wall filled with colourful scrawls, and flanked by two people in straw hats and black clothes, on their knees.
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