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New musical looks at group therapy for trauma faced by Singapore’s WWII survivors
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(From left) In Unforgotten The Musical, playwright Jonathan Lim adapts Professor Kua Ee Heok’s novel about six senior citizens and a therapist – played by Timothy Kua – reckoning with the trauma of the Japanese Occupation.
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SINGAPORE – A therapy group for post-war trauma survivors might not sound like musical theatre material, but a new show will use the genre to address the mental health of Singapore’s pioneers who experienced World War II.
Playwright Jonathan Lim, 48, says he was initially “apprehensive” when first approached by Musical Theatre Limited’s co-founder Stella Kon to adapt a novel essentially involving six senior citizens talking to a therapist.
