Dunt 'Play' Play,especially race/religion
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Friday August 4, 8:17 PM,2006,MDA withdraws licence for play due to racial undertones
SINGAPORE : The Media Development Authority (MDA) is withdrawing the licence for a play that was scheduled to be performed by a group called Agni Kootthu on Saturday night.
2. The Substation Guinness Theatre
MDA says the play called "Smegma", comprising 10 playlets, undermines the values in Singapore's multiracial and multi-religious society.
According to the Authority, the play portrays Muslims in a negative light.
The majority of the Arts Consultative Panel also found most of the content of the play insensitive and inappropriate for staging.
They were also concerned the play could create unhappiness and disaffection among Muslims.
This is believed to the first time that MDA has issued and then withdrawn a licence for a play. - CNA/ms
5 & 6 August 2006, 8 pm
$20 from The Substation Box Office
(Monday - Friday, 12 - 8 pm tel 6337 7800)
this play is rated R-18SMEGMA interrogates the 'moral, cultural, religious, political, economical legitimacy world' from many different perspectives of the underdogs and their masters. This plastic society's hidden hierarchies are brought to the surface by the experiences of its outsiders; a schizophrenic transsexual, pregnant female suicide bomber, irate non-smokers and defiant smokers.
When the comfort-zone is shattered ugliness rears its head like cheesy SMEGMA. -
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Aiya..
I already hold permanent opinion that ARTS, in its many forms, can NEVER truly flourish in Singapore.
Forget it...
... cos trying to express anything via any art form will be frustratingly constipated.
If our level of racial and religious harmony is so fragile and brittle to be so easily unhinged by a simple play, then I think they would have failed all these years to instill these qualities in society.