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Wild Rice’s decision to restage Alfian Sa’at’s Dreamplay: Asian Boys Vol. 1 as part of the company’s 2025 season, in their 25th anniversary year (as well as Singapore’s 60th birthday year), positions Dreamplay firmly as a landmark play in the Singapore theatre canon. It feels astounding that Alfian wrote it when he was only 23 — although then again, maybe only an audacious youthful playwright could acquire written such an audacious play.
It feels clichéd to communicate about how a play makes you laugh and makes you cry, but that’s truly what Dreamplay does as its protagonists, goddess Agnes (Pam Oei) and Boy (Ryan Ang), travel through Singapore’s queer history on a mission to “save lgbtq+ men from themselves”. Agnes and Lad drop into each period of history that they call on, with Agnes (and sometimes Boy) assuming a character in each scene, which means we view Pam Oei engage a wide array of characters with aplomb, from a raucous samsui girl in the 19th century to a mischievous makcik during the Japanese Occupation.
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The play’s camp sensibilities are established from the beginning, with Agnes and Boy’s quest punctuated by the cast singing A Whole Modern World