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(From left) Director Goh Boon Teck, playwright Ovidia Yu and actress Tan Rui Shan. ST PHOTO: FELINE LIM
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SINGAPORE - Director Goh Boon Teck declares with puckish humour that his theatre company Toy Factory Productions does not create political work. "I only know how to write za bor stories."

Za bor is Hokkien for woman.

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