17 November 1994 – 4 December 1994 @ Drama Centre Black Box, Fort Canning Park

Synopsis

Undercover is set in a fictitious country’s fictitious intelligence department. It revolves around the head of the department, his deputy, and their new intelligence agent, Jane, the first female in their department. Jane is sent on an undercover spy mission to infiltrate an alleged subversive ‘charitable’ organisation known as the Centre. The Centre is led by a smooth and suave Oxford scholar, Qiang. Soon, Jane falls in love with Qiang. Meanwhile, the deputy, in an attempt to overthrow his head, is taking notes of the head’s misdeeds.

Undercover is a farce about ambition and ego. It highlights one very basic human flaw – the inability to trust other people, and the need to exert one’s power over another. The play will leave the audience guessing as to who is after who, and who are really the undercover agents.

Director: Lok Meng Chue
Writer: Tan Tarn How 

Set Design: Adi Yadoni
Light Design: Yo Shao An
Sound Design: Tan Choon Ping

Performers:
Benjamin Ng
Casey Lim
Danny Jow
Lim Kay Tong
Sharon Lim
Tan Kheng Hua 
Wendy Kweh

Producer: Tay Tong
Technical Management: Mohd Rafaat Hamzah
Stage Management: Doreen Chan, Sim Pern Yau

Assistant Set Designers: Desmond Foo, Tajudin Tawi
Lighting: Chew Keng Kiat
Sound: Paul Chan

Business Management & Public Relations: Michele Lim, Leslie Lee
Collaterals: Mona Choo

(Source: T:>Works Archive)


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credits

Tan Tarn How
Playwright
Adi Yadoni
Set Designer
Yo Shao Ann
Lighting Designer
Tan Choon Ping
Sound Designer
Benjamin Ng
Performer
Casey Lim
Performer
Danny Jow
Performer

artefacts

Dirty Laundry, Mergers & Undercover
"This second compendium ofnew writing from the W1iters' Lab Year II is an affirmation of the progress that Singapore writing has made: one sees a maturing of writing from the various playwrights, and the issues/ themes explored are broader and removed from the self-consciousness of a search for identity. This year we have a crop of writing that is diverse in theme and style.  "Mergers and Accusations is a piece of writing that has heart and soul. Eleanor Wong with her charming wit and humour, delves
Theresa Tan, Eleanor Wong, Tan Tarn How, Robin Loon, Enrico Varella, Lee Chee Keng, Otto Fong
Published: 1995
Tan Tarn How: Six Plays
"Tan Tarn How can be succinctly described as a playwright of the public life and a raconteur of social history in the way he captures the zeitgeist with the exactitude and incisiveness of a political analyst. This can be attributed to a spillover from his full-time occupation, initially as a journalist with the political desk of The Straits Times and eventually as a senior research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies where the ambit of his duties encompasses studies of policy issues on the s
Tan Tarn How
Published: 2011