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Chong Tze Chien turns classic The Pillowman into probe of toxic masculinity

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Director Chong Tze Chien (in white) and cast (clockwise from bottom left) Joshua Lim, Lian Sutton, Irsyad Dawood, Shrey Bhargava, Jamil Schulze, Krish Natarajan, of The Pillowman.

The Pillowman's director Chong Tze Chien (in white) with members of the cast: (clockwise from bottom left) Joshua Lim, Lian Sutton, Irsyad Dawood, Shrey Bhargava, Jamil Schulze and Krish Natarajan.

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SINGAPORE – Netflix’s four-part limited series Adolescence has got viewers talking about its interrogation scene that veers from the tender to the hurling of a chair.

Closer to home, another intense interrogation will be enacted on stage, in director Chong Tze Chien’s staging of The Pillowman.

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