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Live Stream available for viewing on SRT's Facebook
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En bloc fever in an economic boom. A quirky tale about housing the living and raising the dead.
On this tiny red dot, where both living and dead jostle for space, Boom tells the story of a stubborn old woman and her property agent son, who are struggling over the en bloc sale of their home. Their destinies become linked with that of Jeremiah, an idealistic civil servant, who is facing the greatest challenge of his career – persuading a reluctant corpse to relocate.
Welcome to the surreal world of Boom, where the dead aren't allowed to rest in peace and heaven is a luxury sky villa with A1 designer decor. Weaving in Hokkien with English, past with present, living with dead, fantasy with reality, BOOM is a comic yet poignant tale about en blocs and exhumations.
Written by award-winning playwright Jean Tay, Boom was commissioned by SRT and staged in 2008 under SRT's Stage Two.
The live streaming of Boom (Rehearsed Reading) will be performed by Chua Enlai, Casey Lim, Andrew Marko, Rei Poh, Nora Samosir and Amanda Tee (scroll down to find out more). Thong Pei Qin will be directing the rehearsed reading.
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This live streaming of the rehearsed reading of Boom will include sign language interpretation. A Sign Language Interpreted performance is designed to cater for Deaf or Hard of Hearing patrons. The interpreter will sign all auditory elements of the show using Singapore Sign Language.
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Event Date
The live stream of the performance was on 5 June 2020, 8pm
Venue
for viewing on SRT's Facebook
Ticket Pricing
NIL
Chua Enlai is an award-winning actor and host known for his dramatic and comedic work across theatre, television, and film.
Most recently seen in the Channel 5 drama series Mixed Signals, other recent programmes include Channel 8’s Happy Go Lucky and CNA’s New York Festivals TV & Film Award-winning documentary Becoming Human. Enlai is known for his work on nine seasons of the International Emmy-nominated The Noose, for which he’s won the Asian Television Award for Best Comedy Performance in 2010 and 2013. It has just completed its special edition season The Noose Gets Smart in 2020.
Enlai has performed in over 50 theatre productions. He was last seen on stage as Gwendolyn Fairfax in Wild Rice’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Awards include Best Actor at the DBS Life! Theatre Awards for Shopping & F***ing and Best Supporting Actor at the ST Life! Theatre Awards for The Importance of Being Earnest.
Chua Enlai is represented by FLY Entertainment.
Casey is an actor, director, digital video and sound artist. He had been actively involved on stage as an actor since the 90s. Some memorable productions were Kuo Pao Kun’s Lao Jiu (1993), Descendents of the Eunuch Admiral (1995), and Tan Tarn How’s Machine (2002). He last appeared on stage in Desmond Sim’s Wife #11 (2009).
In the 2000s he founded Checkpoint Theatre, and directed Mark Chan’s chamber opera Opiume (2004) and Chay Yew’s A Language of Their Own (2006). He later directed 男男自语, the Chinese translation by Robin Loon of Chay Yew’s A Language of Their Own presented in the Singapore Arts Festival (2011).
In 2014, he founded Centre 42 with 3 other like-minded theatre practitioners. He is now running Centre 42 as the executive director supporting the independent artists and art groups.
Andrew is a stage and screen actor,voice-over artist and a musician who loves to cook and write. Andrew loves improvisational comedy and performs as a main stage company member of the group, ‘Improvanopolis.” Andrew is most known for his role as ‘Joshua’, a teenager with severe autism, in Pangdemonium’s production of Falling, for which he won a Straits Times Life Theatre Award for Best Actor. Andrew is also an SRT-Wolftrap teaching artist specializing in integrated arts learning in early childhood education. Andrew was last seen as ‘Ting Tong Bel’ in Wild Rice’s Peter Pan in Serangoon Gardens, for which he received a Straits Times Life Theatre Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Notable theatre credits: Peter Pan in Serangoon Gardens (Wild Rice); Urinetown (Pangdemonium); Rubber Girl is On The Loose (Cake Theatre); Peter and the Starcatcher (Pangdemonium); Private Parts (Michael Chiang’s Playthings); Mama White Snake (Wild Rice); Every Brilliant Thing (Bhumi Collective); Electra (Cake Theatre); Falling (Pangdemonium); RENT (Pangdemonium); The Emperor’s New Clothes (W!ld Rice).
Rei Poh is a committed participatory theatre practitioner, director and game designer, who believes in the power of theatre to transform. He is a proud graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts’ Master of Directing for Performance program. Rei has created thought-provoking participatory and forum theatre works like ATTEMPTS:SG, ATTEMTPS:MEL and《莎莎》Girl In the White Sand Box. Rei’s recent projects include the showcase of DATING SIM (beta) —a participatory piece that experiments with video game-style narrative in LATE NIGHT TEXTING 2019 by CENTRE 42.
Nora Samosir has been active in the theatre since 1979 and has also worked in television and film. She has acted with TheatreWorks, Cake Theatricals, Wild Rice, The Necessary Stage, GenerAsia, The Theatre Practice, Teater Ekamatra, Singapore Lyric Opera, Singapore Repertory Theatre and other theatre companies. After obtaining a Postgraduate Diploma in Voice Studies from the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, she has taught at tertiary level both in England and in Singapore. She completed her MA at the National University of Singapore. Aside from her voice work in the theatre, she has conducted voice workshops for the general public.
Amanda is a graduate from the Acting Programme at LASALLE College of the Arts.
She trained with the SITI Company (New York) in 2011 and 2018. She performed for the Kevin Spacey Foundation (New York) in 2012. She trained with Suzuki Company of Toga (Japan) in 2014.
Selected theatre credits incude Press Gang (Wild Rice); Normal, The Last Bull：A Life in Flamenco For SIFA 2016 (Checkpoint Theatre); Shakespeare in the Park’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth. Hello/Goodbye, The Jungle Book, Bear and Chicken Get Ready for School, Fried Rice Paradise (SRT); Pandemic (Slung Low, UK) for SIFA 2012; National Broadway Company (TheatreWorks); K 变形记 (Toy Factory).
Selected TV credits include New Things on the Block (Yahoo TV), Junction Tree S1-5 (Mediacorp); Basic English for Adults S3, Here Comes Darwin! (NHK Japan).
