Arts Picks: King by Jo Tan, heritage recipes and Chaucer in an app

Actress Jo Tan wrote the script and plays multiple characters for King, an one-woman show. PHOTO: DANIEL CHOONG, PIXEL ART
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Actress Jo Tan delivers a tour de force in this live-streamed performance now available on YouTube for a limited period. Not only does she play multiple characters, but she also wrote the script for this one-woman show.

Mousy Geok Yen is a public relations executive, engaged to a nice insurance agent Matthew. Her safe stable life gets upturned when on impulse, she attends an office party in the guise of a man, Stirling da Silva. She discovers the drag scene courtesy of her expatriate boss and drag queen Ethan, and finds a new lease of life in inhabiting the straight-talking male persona of Stirling.

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