Utter debuted as a pre-festival event of SWF 2011, showcasing the best of Singapore writing and celebrating the written word’s potential to be adapted  for different media like theatre, film and even games. Loosely interpreted, the word “utter” could be used as a verb and an adjective – to utter a word, or utter madness. This year’s instalment aims to bridge the generational and language divide by the pairing of these two works. 

As a lead-up to the Singapore Writers Festival (SWF) in November, The Arts House presents a new season of Utter 《优剧》, a pre-festival double bill featuring two short plays in Chinese and English, which are adapted from the texts of local literati, Yeng Pway Ngon and O Thiam Chin.

Set in a café that is a metaphor of a writer’s mind, the two plays Shadows in the Forest (adapted by Lee Chee Keng from Yeng’s latest novel “The Studio 画室“) and The Yellow Elephant and The Girl Who Swallowed The Sun (adapted by Jean Tay from O Thiam Chin’s short stories in “The Rest Of Your Life And Everything That Comes With It“) supposition the encounter between the characters and their creator. An intimate dialogue about love, fear, betrayed ideals and fantastical animals ensues. - taken from buttonsinthebread.com

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