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The maestro of political plays is back and his latest offering in a decade, Fear of Writing, is a groundbreaking commentary on the political pulse of Singapore today.
In Fear of Writing, a playwright struggles with writer's block, a director and producer bemoan their failure to get a government licence to stage their play, and a father writes to his daughter overseas. Seemingly disparate elements are woven together, while the line between art, performance and reality begin to blur dramatically as the play reaches its chilling conclusion.
Fear of Writing is a play that will haunt you while compelling you to decide where you stand on the issues of control and censorship.
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Tan Tarn How, senior research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore, graduated in 1982 from Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge with BA Honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos. He also has a Diploma in Education from Singapore's Institute of Education. After teaching, he joined The Straits Times and from 1987-1996 was a political reporter, op-ed writer, arts deputy editor, and foreign correspondent in Hong Kong and Beijing.
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He left to be head scriptwriter for television drama and comedy at MediaCorp for about two years before returning to the newspaper in 1999 to be its science and technology editor, political correspondent and deputy news editor until 2005. He has also been the associate artistic director of the drama company Theatreworks, leading workshops for budding playwrights. Tan Tarn How published Six Plays with Epigram Books in 2011.
Tan has always had an unerring knack as a playwright for picking up and challenging the political pulse. --The Straits Time
Fear of Writing is an urgent and courageous piece of work that speaks directly about political freedoms the elephant in the room that is never quite thoroughly addressed even as people are increasingly vocal about bread-and-butter issues. --Adeline Chia, The Straits Times
A scathing indictment. It analyses the very act of writing itself and its limits. --Mayo Martin, Today
Fear of Writing is an urgent and courageous piece of work that speaks directly about political freedoms the elephant in the room that is never quite thoroughly addressed even as people are increasingly vocal about bread-and-butter issues. --Adeline Chia, The Straits Times
A scathing indictment. It analyses the very act of writing itself and its limits. --Mayo Martin, Today
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- PublisherEpigram Books
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 9810714521
- ISBN 13 9789810714529
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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