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Rigor Mortis deals with the lives of three people sharing an apartment. Alex invites his girlfriend Ashanti to move in with him and his best friend Francis, hoping that everyone will get along, that everything will be fine. There is fun and gaiety and there is trouble and tension and finally, there is Rigor Mortis. This play examines ordinary people in ordinary circumstances.

Lanterns Never Go Out revolves around Kah Wei, a 15-year-old girl who finds that being a teenager with new roles and new expectations is not easy. When her ideals and reality do not match, she wishes to return to her childhood of goldfish lanterns and comics. As the play progresses, we find ourselves questioning the dos and don'ts, the whys and hows. Or we may find ourselves questioning Kah Wei.

It's a familiar situation. Alex Teo, a young determined salesman, knocks on the door of Mrs Katherine Leong's flat. He's here to sell, to make his commission. Her money is worth his time. Never mind her idiosyncrasies, she's a customer. After all, "sales is like that." Mrs Leong doesn't disappoint. She buys it all. With the right kind of persuasion, she parts willingly with her cash. His time is worth more than her money. As it goes, in all familiar situations, nothing that's worth anything comes easy. Katherine, delivers more than Alex bargained for. And Alex, true to all salesmen, promises more than he can give.

Lanterns Never Go Out revolves around Kah Wei, a 15-year-old girl who finds that being a teenager with new roles and new expectations is not easy. When her ideals and reality do not match, she wishes to return to her childhood of goldfish lanterns and comics. As the play progresses, we find ourselves questioning the dos and don'ts, the whys and hows. Or we may find ourselves questioning Kah Wei.

Lanterns Never Go Out revolves around Kah Wei, a 15-year-old girl who finds that being a teenager with new roles and new expectations is not easy. When her ideals and reality do not match, she wishes to return to her childhood of goldfish lanterns and comics. As the play progresses, we find ourselves questioning the dos and don'ts, the whys and hows. Or we may find ourselves questioning Kah Wei.

Threads of family relationships are highlighted by tension when a beautiful elder daughter returns home from Oxford and a militant younger daughter announces that she has found her ideal in a man of another race. This play does not focus on the pros and cons of foreign education or relationships with foreigners but on how family structure can absorb the shocks of such foreign events and still survive.