The Vault: The TRUE Awards

Synopsis:

The TRUE Awards is a devised performance responding to A White Rose at Midnight.

Lim Chor Pee's A White Rose at Midnight was first staged sixty years ago by the Experimental Theatre Club at the Cultural Centre Theatre. It centres around disillusioned English-educated scholar Lee Hua Min and his tumultuous relationship with Chinese-educated ex-nightclub singer Ching Mei. Written and staged in the uncertain, volatile years before Singapore became an independent country, A White Rose at Midnight is a humorous, witty and prescient portrait of both a soul and a nation divided.

This year, in commemoration of the play's 60th anniversary, seven students from the National University of Singapore's Theatre & Performance Studies TS3103 Theatre Lab will present The TRUE Awards, a performance response to A White Rose at Midnight. In accompaniment to this performance-response, excerpts of the original text will be read by invited alumni of the Theatre & Performance Studies programme.

Join us on 11 & 12 April at the Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street, to experience this performance-response and celebrate the nominees of the TRUE Awards.