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Alvin was invited to be a panellist for the panel discussion entitled “Fear of Writing? The development of political theatre and plays in Singapore”, alongside theatre practitioners Robert Yeo, Tan Tarn How and Ivan Heng, moderated by Janice Koh at library@esplanade.

This forum aimed to uncover the practices of various agencies in combining arts with social work. 

The video recording is available on request.

The following description was extracted from the Introduction in focas 1 by Editor Lucy Davis.

The transcript contains a lively debate on the politics and dilemmas of representation, and several perspectives on identity politics and Singapore theatre are raised: How to give space for different and/or marginal expressions without reducing people to difference or marginality? Can one speak of an "ethical representation"? Are there contextual codes of representation that we call can pragmatically access? And is Singapore really there at all? Differences in perspectives mirrored significant differences in the positions of panel speakers and floor speakers. Some of the various positions were: finding oneself marked against one's will; embracing marking as a political choice; and the desire to live, write, practise and perform in a space unmarked by identity politics.

A transcript of the forum was published in focas 1. 

The video recording is available upon request.

A forum on theatre for social issues, considering its social function and its artistic value.