Some stuff that we wrote/heard/said/surfed that we thought we'd share with you...

Red Thread - Jonathan Lim

This was the text for the Coolie Alley sequence of Touch Arts' "On The Verge" at Far East Square in 1999. STAGES converted a narrow access corridor beside the auditorium into an opium den, cobwebbed with red thread and strewn with the ensemble cast in coolie clothes, drifting in and out of an opium haze. The poem was recorded and played as the audience was ushered through the alley, picking their way among the bodies of chinese coolies desperately trying to forget hardship and remember home..

They Will Cry - Jonathan Lim
Houseghosts - Jonathan Lim

They Will Cry and Houseghosts were originally written by Jonathan Lim to be performed by STAGES in the China Street sequence of Touch Arts' "On The Verge" at Far East Square in 1999. The China Street sequence consisted of 7 monologue-poems performed simultaneously, each offering a view of the old shophouses along China Street (across the street from the audience) that were boarded up for demolition at the time of the performance. However, the management of Far East Square vetoed these two poems, refusing to allow any mention of ghosts or supernatural themes in relation to their venue.

Sikh - Gui Wei Hsin
Girl - Gui Wei Hsin

These two poems were written by Gui Wei Hsin, a STAGES veteran and our two-time Guildenstern. They were written for the Rain Alley sequence of Touch Arts' "On The Verge" at Far East Square in 1999. Both were vetoed by Far East management because of the personas were implied to be ghosts.

"Girl" was originally rehearsed by Melissa Kwek, "Sikh" was later rewritten for a chinese jaga (security guard) and was performed by Brendon Marc Fernandez (with kerosene lamp in hand) in the drainage canal opposite Marine Parade CC as part of 'The Re-Turn of the Screw' in the first TNS "Names Changed to Protect the Innocent".

Both were featured in "Forbidden CC", featuring Melissa Kwek and Alan Johnson.

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