Friday August 4, 8:17 PM,2006,MDA withdraws licence for
play due to racial undertones
SINGAPORE : The Media Development Authority (MDA) is withdrawing
the licence for a play that was scheduled to be performed by a
group called Agni Kootthu on Saturday night.
MDA says the play called "Smegma", comprising 10 playlets,
undermines the values in Singapore's multiracial and
multi-religious society.
According to the Authority, the play portrays Muslims in a negative
light.
The majority of the Arts Consultative Panel also found most of the
content of the play insensitive and inappropriate for
staging.
They were also concerned the play could create unhappiness and
disaffection among Muslims.
This is believed to the first time that MDA has issued and then
withdrawn a licence for a play. - CNA/ms
2. The Substation Guinness Theatre
5 & 6 August 2006, 8 pm
$20 from The Substation Box Office
(Monday - Friday, 12 - 8 pm tel 6337 7800)
this play is rated R-18
SMEGMA interrogates the 'moral, cultural, religious, political,
economical legitimacy world' from many different perspectives of
the underdogs and their masters. This plastic society's hidden
hierarchies are brought to the surface by the experiences of its
outsiders; a schizophrenic transsexual, pregnant female suicide
bomber, irate non-smokers and defiant smokers.
When the comfort-zone is shattered ugliness rears its head like
cheesy SMEGMA.
