2000 - Asian Boys Vol. 1
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Asian Boys Vol. 1: Playwright's Message
Alfian Sa'at

I felt the topic deserved much more than that. What has been missing so far in a lot of plays of this nature is dialogue. There is often a kind of polemicising, angry young men spewing vitriol against their oppressors, eyes flashing in helpless rage at the victimisation of their peers. Or on the other extreme, fatalism, the group of mourners at the funeral of the suicidee or disease-stricken. Yet there are soliloquies, both the rant and the lament, imploding under the weight of their fury or sorrow. The character of the goddess comes in as someone who is willing to listen and to sympathise. of course, the question is, does it take a goddess to engage with the marginal in society? Is such compassion superhuman?