Truth or Dare – the essence of this thriller from one of Singapore’s leading English theatre companies. Four people are imprisoned and forced to write the biography of China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang. They are racing against time – the emperor is dying and the book must be complicated before his death. Their enemy is themselves: to write the truth means death, a lie also means death. And the truth is that Qin was a tyrant and a great man.
This tension is heightened by a production that utilises cameras on stage and TV monitors throughout the hall. The auditorium becomes one large surveillance room. The impact: the audience lives out the intrigue and paranoia with greater intensity than ever before.
Set in a historical age when China has just been reunified, yet in a mythical time where this very same China has computers and CD-ROM, this original multimedia production by well-known playwright Tan Tarn How and director Ong Keng Sen is guaranteed to intrigue the intellect.
