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Theatre review: The Paiseh Pieces is a songbook for the misfits of adulting
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(From left) Gail Belmonte, Nadya Zaheer and Kevin Brendan play three young adults who trash out their woes.
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The word “adulting” captures the awkwardness of graduating into the mid-20s – one is not quite yet a grown-up, but is on the way to becoming one. Or worse, adulting can feel like being an imposter or, as the first musical number in The Paiseh Pieces puts it, it could feel like Another Day Of Pretending To Be Adults.
Written and directed by Adeeb Fazah with music direction by Joanne Ho, The Second Breakfast Company’s first musical is a boppy, upbeat pop rock dive into this liminal life stage, tapping the anxieties and dreams of young Singaporeans who are coming of age.
