PIE TO SPOILT: A Collection of Plays

Chong Tze Chien exploded into the Singapore theatre scene in 1998 when his PIE won the Singapore Dramatist Award. Now a fulltime playwright with The Necessary Stage, Chong continues to impress audiences with his power over theatrical forms.

PIE TO SPOILT, Chong's outstanding maiden collection, is an anthology of four highly innovative plays, exceptional in their structure and design. 

With characters often hovering on the verge, on the margins of society; with unusual settings ranging from a cargo lift to a moving bus; with themes of entrapment, freedom, and political manoeuvrings, Chong's works at every moment question, confront and destabilise conventional norms. 

With each play followed by an interview with the playwright by The Necessary Stage's Founder and Artistic Director, Alvin Tan, PIE TO SPOILT is possibly the best maiden collection of Singapore plays in recent years.

(Source: PIE TO SPOILT blurb)