When his father passed away, Bugis street trans-sexual KC ran into a problem. He had to perform the funeral rites as the only son but he had become a "she".

Writer: Russell Heng
Director: Jeremiah Choy

(Source: T:>Works Archive)

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Lest the Demons Get to Me (1992)

T:>Works (TheatreWorks)

Staged: 15 April 1992

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Russell Heng

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Jeremiah Choy

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Lest the Demons Get to Me (2001), Review

The Flawed Masterpiece Although as a production LEST THE DEMONS left much to be desired, the overall effect of the play was deeply moving. LEST THE DEMONS GET TO ME, Russell Heng's exploration of the conflict between duty and desire in a Bugis Street transvestite, is likely to become a canonical work in the corpus of Singaporean theatre. And from now on, any mention of it will have to take into account what took place last Sunday at the Black Box on Fort Canning Hill. For although rough and unprof

Seow Yien Lein

Reviewed: 13 March 2001

Fat Virgins, Fast Cars and Asian Values

Introducing some of Singapore's finest young playwrights, this is the first collection of local plays from the Theatreworks Writers' Laboratory, an event long overdue. The 9 plays in this collection are the product of an intense period of workshop activity from the Writers' Lab in 1991. Diverse in theme and style, the plays challenge the reader's everyday assumptions, presenting the ordinary, mundane and familiar from a unique and often disturbing perspective. Bernard's Story is about rape, and

Dana Lam, Russell Heng Hiang Khng, Kwuan Loh, Robin Loon, Ovidia Yu, Tan Tarn How, Desmond Sim, Chng Suan Tze, Theresa Tan

Published: 1993

Lest the Demons Get to Me (2001)

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