I am speechless. MDA has just banned our performance, Human Lefts, the one that I have been working on with Benny, scheduled to play this Saturday. Their reason: "Bad timing."
To get the license, they said we have to change the script entirely and not mention anything about The Death Penalty, whether it is in the Singapore context or not.
Our play is not even defamatory or inflammatory in nature. It is a comedy and very experimental: it is about a father, a son and his lover from Hong Kong who is going to die.
We still need to put up a piece because the other performances are international works and NAC will pull out funding because they do not support international performances. We do not have the money to pay pack especially when we already have brought props, costumes, spent on publicity, etc...
We refuse to self-censor, so we are putting up a completely new piece within these 3 days that we won't even have the time to rehearse. How????
I am too disappointed to fight. It is almost useless. If we do, we will jeopardise future shows and future fundings. If we don't, we have lost our freedom of expressing ourselves through art.
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