This volume is the product of NUS-Shell Short Play Competition to encourage new and budding writers to contribute to the local drama scene. Eight plays are included here with a concluding essay to mark the end of Shell's sponsorship.
Prize winning plays. Vol. VI 1992, Beyond the footlights, new play scripts in Singapore Theatre / edited by Thiru Kandiah
Subject
Singaporean drama (English)--20th century
Literary prizes--Singapore
Publisher
UniPress, 1994
National Library Board Singapore, 1994
Contributors
Kandiah, Thiru
Digital Description
application/pdf, v, 255 p.
Table of Contents
Singaporean plays in English / Thiru Kandiah -- The plays. Gold sandals and cowboys / Tan Li Keng, Kaylene. Just drive / Tong Weng Kian, Kelvin. Outside / Gan Fee Ying, Lesley. Modem art / Tham Li Mei, Claire. Good Hakka girls grow up to be good nurses / Paul Rozario. The shadow master / Su Pow Yuk, Elizabeth. Somebody / Fong Fatt Weng. Water ghosts / Tan Mei Ching -- Concluding essay. Cultural untranslatability as dramatic strategy: a speculative look at the different language versions of Kuo Pao Kun's plays / K.K. Sect.
Copyright
All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.