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Dear reader, Corrie Tan, Jom’s newish arts editor, has today published her first* piece of criticism for us, on “The Vault: Past Perfect”, a piece of documentary theatre that reveals how the Singaporean theatre industry has come of age. “If we think of grammar as a linguistic structure within...
An intimate piece of documentary theatre performed by three respected practitioners reveals how the Singaporean theatre industry has come of age—and how that generation has shaped the theatrical age we now live in.
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Dear reader, This week’s essay, our first political piece of the year, addresses last year’s romantic affairs involving politicians: Cheng Li Hui and Tan Chuan-Jin of the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP); and Leon Perera and Nicole Seah of the opposition Workers’ Party (WP). But first, let’...
The recent spate of high-profile scandals in Singapore has prompted observers to discuss the political fortunes of the PAP and the WP. Yet, these have overlooked the more fundamental question of what the incidents reveal about the nature of political legitimacy in Singapore.
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