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>stop
kiss by livid room productions >date:
21 mar 2002 >tired
already? go home then |
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After the
miraculous Postcard from Persephone, STOP KISS is the sophomore
effort by Livid Room Blurring the boundaries between sexuality and friendship, STOP KISS is the story of two friends who slowly grow attracted to each other, until a brutal attack ends this burgeoning relationship. The catch? These two friends, Callie and Sara, are both women - and the attack is motivated by homophobia. Yet it has to be said that the play is less about lesbianism per se, and more about how distinctions between friends and lovers are not as clear cut as we would think and like them to be. |
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>>'It took Livid Room Productions about two years after their first
play to present their second. Lets hope |
I am not insisting that all plays must be translated into a local context to meet the needs of a local audience but in this case, the specificity of homophobia would have reverberated with greater urgency and impact if it had been less culturally alienating and did not, to a certain extent, perpetuate the myth that homosexuality is only a Western phenomenon. (And this is one of the reasons why the relatively context-less English version of Beautiful Thing didnt really work while the localised Mandarin version was a much more powerful production.) |
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Meanwhile, the converging storyline - whereby what happens before and after the attack is revealed before the actual attack in itself - could have been better paced, so as to highlight the tension between the innocent development of the relationship and the traumatic aftermath of the attack. STOP KISS
is a refreshing voice amidst the male dominated gay plays that have pervaded
the Singapore theatre space. It took Livid Room Productions about two
years after their first play to present their second. Lets hope |