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In the army some
words find new meanings, some words
lose theirs, e.g. home and fuck (or fuck and home)
As part of Poetic
Vibes in the Arts Festival late-night series,
STAGES takes you on a trip down military lane with
Hentak Kaki - The Green Days of Our Lives. Our unique
brand of dramatisation brings a selection of National Service
poems to life in whole new ways.
From enlistment to BMT to field camp, route
march and stand-by bed - remember the drill, recall the drama,
revisit the green days of your lives. See poems by Kirpal
Singh, Robert Yeo, Alfian Sa'at, Paul Tan, Cyril Wong, Gui
Wei Hsin and others take on flesh in a provoking look at Singapore's
see-sawing relationship with our own boys in green....
But now he tells
me
About his former PC, and he says,
“I’ll never forget him. The lousy bastard.”
starring Edward
Choy, Hoang Du’c, Tan Lueneng and Victor Yen
featuring Andrew
Choo and Bryan Koh
directed by Jonathan Lim
Also in the same event, Felix Cheong's verse
drama One Night Standing comes to life through marionettes,
and larger-than-life Aussie women poets Rosanna Licari and
Rebecca Edwards invite you into their private worlds of verse...
Send me to a war.
Anything out of this blind end. Give me real bullets
and fat grenades to blast this routine and you off the face
of this story.
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