EVENT DATE 10-20 Jul 2013 Tue - Fri, 8pm Sat & Sun, 3pm & 8pm

DURATION Approx 2 hrs

A man and a woman meet, seemingly for the first time. Can one single encounter alter the course of their lives?

The Optic Trilogy is composed of three stories, each one a duet between strangers. A tourist has a dalliance with a rent boy she has summoned from the Yellow Pages. A nervous photographer meets a beautiful blind model. A woman audaciously proposes marriage to a man she has just met on the Internet.

Possibly the playwright’s most lyrical work,The Optic Trilogy is a meditation on memory and perception, capturing the poetry of chance meetings in a cold and pitiless urbanscape. In each of the stories, the characters discover how the shock of human contact may lead to the possibility of redemption, forgiveness and even love.

After premiering in Zurich, Berlin, Munich and Stockholm,The Optic Trilogy is finally back in Singapore. Not to be missed!

BEST SCRIPT NOMINATION – Life! Theatre Awards 2002

“The lyrical text weaves its way seductively into the mind, indulging it with its almost romantic metaphors. It may be the young playwright’s best work.” – The Straits Times

“The writing was beautiful… with moments of lightness, humour and dramatic intensity.” – The Business Times

In The Spotlight is a season dedicated to a single Singaporean playwright’s work. The aim of this season is to provide audiences with a representative survey of the playwright’s body of work, and more importantly to examine how these works relate to one another and to today’s audiences.

The programme itself will consist of the premiere of a brand new play and two exciting revivals of the playwright’s work. In addition, there will also be dramatised readings and workshops conducted that will explore the styles, themes and inspirations running through the playwright’s works.