Written with gut-wrenching insight by Alfian Sa'at, The Death of Singapore Theatre as Scripted By the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore is a performance-lecture that traces the history of how theatre has been regulated in Singapore from colonial times to today. It is a chronicle of how moral panic, culture wars, bureaucratic language and political elites have shaped the Singaporean censorship landscape.
Performed as a direct adress to an unknown IMDA officer, this darkly hilarious new work reconfigures the faceless encounter between the artist and the censor as a moment of unbearable intimacy.
"You. I know you're reading this. Who else can it be but you?"
(Source: The Death of Singapore Theatre as Scripted By the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore blurb)