Decimal Points 810

Sypnosis

"It was startling to see how these emerging actors had become conduits for a previous generation of performers (many of whom are long gone) who had blazed a trail for them. It was almost as if the iconic figures of Teo and Sergeant were in the room with us. And how apt to be in the Substation, a space that was set in motion by yet another late theatre pioneer, Kuo Pao Kun.

Having worked as a producer and programmer with many of these theatre figures, Neo seems to have become a bridge between old and new, and perhaps even living and dead, seeing how his life once hung in the balance.

One emerges from 810 with the unshakeable belief that mortality is something that binds us all - young or old; dead or alive; past, present or future." The Straits Times Life!, 28 April 2014

"From the poetic first moment you hear the pained strains of Jeff Buckley’s version of Hallelujah and the sombre, measured processional act of the performers pouring a white liquid (milk?) on the shoulders of three fellow performers (naked?), you feel it’s something special.

... and it’s got a whole lotta “feeling” going for it that one can’t help but be drawn to the tender ache of its heartfelt sincerity. One that gently floats, buoyed by a bit of humour and lots of love. Death or the thought of it may surround Decimal Points 810 but at its core is Life itself." TODAYonline, 26 April 2014

Before going under, a man is told that patients hallucinate during surgery. He wakes up thirteen and a half hours later and cannot remember a single thing.

Decimal Points 810 is one man's hallucination of a hallucination that never took place.  What was going on during the eight hundred and ten minutes of his existence that was lost in oblivion? Where does the mind go when the body lies there in inertia? Where does the mind go during eight hundred and ten minutes of unconsciousness?

Decimal Points 810 is a performance that meditates on the lost time before a man wakes up after surgery.