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Theatre review: Escape To Batam convenes a moving dialogue between distant histories
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Co-written by Checkpoint Theatre's joint artistic directors Huzir Sulaiman and Claire Wong, who also directs the play, Escape To Batam is a conversation between father and daughter, the dead and the unborn.
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Checkpoint Theatre
Singtel Waterfront Theatre
Aug 21, 8pm
In juxtaposing distant historical crises, the risk is that the comparison becomes too obvious, otherwise, too elliptical. Checkpoint Theatre’s Escape To Batam avoids both fates and convenes a valuable space for two disparate wounds – the Japanese Occupation and the Covid-19 pandemic – to dialogue open-endedly.
