With Design For Living, Sylvia Chang (pictured) is once more in the thick of things. The Taiwanese actress-director-singer is both star and writer of the timely new Mandarin play about white-collar desperation set against a backdrop of the current financial meltdown. --PHOTO: ESPLANADE
IN HER 1980s hit song Busy And Blind, Sylvia Chang sings of contemporary life as a flurry of phone calls that have to be answered, memos that need to be written and doors and drawers that have to be opened or closed.
As a movie-maker, she is just as preoccupied with the hustle and bustle. Her films such as Tempting Heart (1999) and 20 30 40 (2004) are populated by urbanites looking for love, or some sort of connection or meaning while coping with their hectic lives.
With Design For Living, she is once more in the thick of things. The Taiwanese actress-director-singer is both star and writer of the timely new Mandarin play about white-collar desperation set against a backdrop of the current financial meltdown.
Read Foong Woei Wan's full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
