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Huayi 2025: Taiwanese writer-director Wu Nien-jen’s play focuses attention on invisible old men
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Greenray Theatre Company's Human Condition VIII will play at the Esplanade as part of Huayi – Chinese Festival of Arts.
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SINGAPORE – Eavesdropping on fellow elderly men at the urology clinic led acclaimed Taiwanese director Wu Nien-jen to write his latest script Human Condition VIII, a humorous look at the woes that accompany retirement.
“From their tone, I sensed a kind of disappointment – one that their wives and children might not quite grasp,” says Wu, 72, who was a regular at the clinic after a surgery for bladder cancer about four years ago. “When I heard them speak, my only thought was that these were men who have been made redundant by the times.”
