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A Dancemaker’s Response to Three Banned Plays
In a continuing series exploring dance and dramatic text, Singaporean contemporary dance artist Lee Mun Wai responds to three banned plays — Talaq, Smegma and Stoma — written by playwright Elangovan. In a performance that is both structured and improvised, Mun Wai intends to move past the initial shock value of Elangovan’s works, to facilitate and broaden the discussion of the social issues examined in the plays.
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Contemporary dance artist Lee Mun Wai presents his artistic response to the works of playwright Elangovan, specifically the three banned plays Talaq, Smegma, and Stoma, published in a collection titled The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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Talaq, Smegma and Stoma are plays by Elangovan which were banned from performance in the years 2000, 2006, 2013 respectively. The plays portrayed social tensions and inequalities in stark and often provocative ways, which led regulatory authorities to deny or withdraw their performance licenses.
Although never publicly staged, the three play-texts were published in 2014 in a collection titled The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
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The programme handout for The Vault: Dancing the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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Photographed by Daniel Teo.
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