A man and a woman meet, seemingly for the first time. Can one single encounter alter the course of their lives?
The Optic Trilogy is composed of three stories, each one a duet between strangers. A tourist has a dalliance with a rent boy she has summoned from the Yellow Pages. A nervous photographer meets a beautiful blind model. A woman audaciously proposes marriage to a man she has just met on the Internet.
Possibly the playwright’s most lyrical work, The Optic Trilogy is a meditation on memory and perception, capturing the poetry of chance meetings in a cold and pitiless urbanscape. In each of the stories, the characters discover how the shock of human contact may lead to the possibility of redemption, forgiveness and even love.
Cast
Brendon Fernandez, Janice Koh
Production Credits
Playwright: Alfian Sa’at
Director: Ivan Heng
Set Designer: CK Chia
Lighting Designer: Mac Chan
Multimedia Artist: Lim Wei Dong
Sound Designer: The Gunnery - Azmi Jaffar, Paul Searles, Ben Rosen
Hair Designer: Ashley Lim
Make-up Designer: Beno Lim (M.A.C)
Costume Coordinator / Wardrobe Manager: Theresa Chan
Producer: Tony Trickett
Production Manager: Leong Mun Hoi
Production Executive: Sazali Hussain
Production Coordinator: Phua Yun Yun
Assistant to Director: Tabitha Loh
Technical Manager: Tay Huey Meng
Assistant Technical Manager: Ng Wei Ling
Assistant Stage Manager: Nurul Izzatul Fia Sumono
Stage Assistants: Nurul Rakinah Abdullah, Tang Yeow Seng
Lighting Operator: Celestine Wong
Sound Operator: Ed-Linddi Ong
Projection Operator: Allyson Bong
Wardrobe Assistants: Melissa Aslam, Lim Zhiying
Hair Assistants: Jane Neo, Michelle Wai
(Source: Wild Rice Programme)