2006 - Off Centre
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Haresh's Notes
If Off Centre comes across angry at times, it's only because I was angry when I was writing it. After being commissioned by the Ministry of Health in Singapore to create a play on mental health, with funding of S$30,000, the Ministry then read the first draft of the play and requested for "less extreme depictions of mental illness". The Ministry also had problems with the way the play represented God/religion and National Service [Ministry of Defence].
If Off Centre comes across angry at times, it's only because I was angry when I was writing it. After being commissioned by the Ministry of Health in Singapore to create a play on mental health, with funding of S$30,000, the Ministry then read the first draft of the play and requested for "less extreme depictions of mental illness". The Ministry also had problems with the way the play represented God/religion and National Service [Ministry of Defence].