Lest the Demons Get to Me (1992)

15 April 1992 – 26 April 1992 @ Drama Centre Black Box, Fort Canning Park

Synopsis

On the final night of Bugis Street, transvestite KC is getting tired of his furtive life. Mother knows but not Father so each time he goes home, he has to dress up properly as a man. The resentment deepens especially since he feels his parents are to be blamed for his transvestism. His terribly closeted boyfriends, the mysterious Chuck, is unlikely to want to live together with him. Weary of a life so dishonest, his one option is to have a sex change and marry his American pen pal. 

During his sex change operation, Father dies. Mother wants him to dress up as a man to perform funeral rites as the only son in a family of five daughters. KC who is now a woman refuses in the name of honesty. So will 'she' or won't 'she'? 

Playwright: Russell Heng
Director: William Teo
Stage Manager: Martin Lim 

Cast: Jeremiah Choy, Rachel Chen, Jalyn Han, Wong Yew Hon 

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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
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