Are you living a life to fulfill someone else's purpose?
Helmed by Cultural Medallion recipients Alvin Tan and Haresh Sharma of The Necessary Stage, Ghost Writer offers a glimpse into the lives of characters intertwined by blood and ties that bind—and suffocate.\
A young dancer who has undergone traditional training feels dislocated within her artistic practice in her home country. A new expatriate wife detached from her immediate reality draws inspiration from the writings of strangers past and present, and tries to reinvent herself. A teacher seeks to save a school that she had inherited, but finds her quest leaves her more lonely than ever.
A meditative interdisciplinary production that charts the collisions of people seeking to alter their destinies, Ghost Writer grapples with the question of how independent our lives can be. Are we existing based on other people's terms, or can we transcend tradition and memory to rewrite our own stories?
Director:
Alvin Tan
Text:
Haresh Sharma
Dramaturgy:
Charlene Rajendran
Choreography:
Olé Khamchanla
Sound:
Bani Haykal
Songs:
Namita Mehta
Multimedia:
Brian Gothong Tan
Set:
Wong Chee Wai
Lighting:
Adrian Tan
Costume: Tube Gallery by Phisit & Saxit
Performed by:
Sharda Maxine Harrison
Olé Khamchanla
Ruby Jayaseelan
Jereh Leong
Ebi Shankara
Sukania Venugopal
