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Sifa 2024: E.M. Forster connects Singaporean theatremakers Haresh Sharma and Chong Tze Chien
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Cultural Medallion recipient Haresh Sharma (left) and Young Artist Award recipient Chong Tze Chien are collaborating on festival commission The Prose And The Passion.
PHOTOS: NG SOR LUAN, KELVIN CHNG
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SINGAPORE – At least once a month for over a year, playwright Haresh Sharma and director Chong Tze Chien met for coffee, often without any agenda, chatting freely about ideas, literature and what might seem like nonsense to others.
In a scene where it is not unusual for theatremakers to produce or write five plays in a year – or, in Chong’s words, slog like “work horses” – it was a luxury for the local duo to be given two years to realise a commissioned work for the Singapore International Festival of Arts.
