Tami and Bill are ordinary parents doing their best to bring up their two teenage kids – Lisa, 16, full of attitude and angst; and Josh, who demands extraordinary attention, because he’s an 18-year-old boy with severe autism. Family life is a precarious balancing act revolving around Josh, his routines, his obsessions, and the rigid set of rules that have been created for them to get through each day.

When this delicate balance is shattered, it literally becomes a matter of life and death for this family.

An electrifying and enlightening family drama, Falling examines the meaning of unconditional love, and dares to ask: “How do you love someone who is difficult to love?”

Written by: Deanna Jent
Directed by: Tracie Pang

Starring: Neo Swee Lin, Adrian Pang, Tan Kheng Hua, Andrew Marko, Fiona Lim

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Falling (2016), Review

I Will Catch You The reason why you should catch Falling: the authenticity and accuracy in which it captures the reality of a family living with an 18-year-old severely autistic child. The interior of an apartment is meticulously recreated. Like our homes, every nook and cranny tells a story. The secret cabinet where the father stores his alcohol. The sacrosanct calendar hanging on the wall. The lonesome string that connects to a box full of feathers. Each of them carries a secret only its inhabitants

Lee Min Jie

Reviewed: 13 May 2016

Falling (2016), Review

The More Loving One First things first, Falling is not a play about autism – that much is clear right from the first line of the director’s message . The ‘falling’ is a family falling apart and losing control. Perhaps this play is more about coping, portraying how an average family deals with and loves an autistic child. Andrew Marko plays Josh, the severely autistic child, and convincingly commits to his role, down to the slurred speech and the manifest posturing. Tan Kheng Hua p

Alex Foo

Reviewed: 28 May 2016

Falling (2016), Review

Daring to Dream for Your Child with Autism “There is no dream for Josh” is a line from Falling that gestures towards the multitude of complications in raising and living with a child with autism. The 18-year-old Josh, though cognitively child-like, is a big, grown man with violent tendencies. At times, this proves too much for his mother, who is played by the pint-sized Tan Kheng Hua, to handle. Falling discusses how an autistic person can also be a sexual being even though he/she he

Alisa Maya Ravindran

Reviewed: 4 June 2016

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