NUS-SHELL Short Plays Series: Prize Winning Plays Volume 2

"This volume is the product of the second year of the Shell Short-Play Competition, jointly organized by the National University of Singapore and the Shell Companies in Singapore to encourage the writing and the production of local drama in English. The six plays included here have been selected from a total of forty-six entries submitted by forty-one competitors. The entrants (twenty men, twenty-one women) range in age from fifteen to sixty-two, and include students, education officers, retirees, managers, businessmen, military personnel, and even a few professional writers. The size and diversity of this field is an encouragement to anyone interested in the development of a Singaporean literature. It is also a sign that the Competition is achieving its purpose...

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"... And with their production, I hope that the natural outgrowth of this publication will be the performance of all the prize-winning plays. A year's time has already seen the production of most of last year's winners. A good script is, after all, only the starting point. We should again thank the Shell Group for helping to provide that starting point. The rest is up to us, including those who will enter the next Short-Play Competition."

– Arthur D Lindley (Editor) 

(Source: NUS-Shell Short Plays Series: Prize Winning Plays Volume 2 introduction)