For decades, ‘homepars’ have been at the heart of Asia’s gay party circuit – house parties in which the gay nightclub atmosphere is recreated in a living or hotel room. To power through a tough break-up and celebrate their evolving gender identity, Oliver hosts a homepar with their closest friends in the home they share with their widowed mother, Hui. But as the night rages on and more people keep showing up, the fear that plagues every homepar rears its ugly head – that knock on the door at 4am. How many secrets can the paper-thin walls of a typical Singaporean home hold? What freedoms have we already given up, even before the cops come calling? And how far would a mother go to protect her child?
About The Playwright
Mitchell Fang is a theatre artist who writes, performs, and directs. He has honed his skills as a writer through playwriting programmes offered by The Necessary Stage and NTU. In 2018, One Thousand Millennials Crying, a play he co-wrote with Kenneth Chia, premiered at the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. As an actor, he has worked with Nine Years Theatre, The Necessary Stage and Drama Box. He has also directed plays for Toy Factory and the Twenty-Something Festival.
About The Rice Cooker
The Rice Cooker is an incubation programme that will be kicking off this year with a series of dramatised readings of new plays that are currently in development at Wild Rice. This is part of the company’s New & Now initiative, which is dedicated to developing new and original writing for the Singapore stage in a structured, sustainable way.
Under this scheme, plays are developed through rigorous dramaturgy and script workshops. They are then presented as dramatised readings, with actors reading early drafts in front of an audience so that playwrights can gather feedback on what works and what needs more work. This is the most effective way for plays to get an early test run, and for audiences to get involved in the otherwise unseen hard work that goes into creating a play: rewriting, rewriting, and rewriting.
For this inaugural Rice Cooker season of dramatised readings, Wild Rice is delighted to present four powerful new works-in-progress from playwrights both well-known and new to our audiences, as part of their ongoing development with us.
Rating: R18
Duration: TBC
Recommended for patrons aged 18 and above
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