Agam Theatre Lab’s Twin Murder In The Green Mansion brings on laughs as a play breaks down

Agam Theatre Lab's Twin Murder In The Green Mansion is described as “part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, all mayhem”. PHOTO: ESPLANADE – THEATRES ON THE BAY
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SINGAPORE – Putting on a successful play is no mean feat, but it is nothing compared to staging one that must pretend to go wrong at every turn.

“If a normal play goes wrong, it’s quite easy to cover up. But in this play, we have to make it look wrong, but it cannot actually be, or it will be a failure,” says Subramanian Ganesh, 39, who co-directs Agam Theatre Lab’s knockabout Twin Murder In The Green Mansion.

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