Sypnosis

Three of Singapore's most exciting creative talents, hailing from different backgrounds and writers themselves, will curate and direct Singapore literary content in three nights of dramatised readings in Utter from 17 June to 19 June 2011.

Held at Drama Centre Black Box at the National Library, this pre-festival event to the Singapore Writers Festival will see Natalie Hennedige (Nothing, Cuckoo Birds) from theatre, Ken Kwek (Kidnapper, It's A Great, Great World) from film and Lee Thean-jeen (The Pupil, Singapore Short Story Project) from television present their distinctive interpretations of how words by fellow Singaporean writers can be performed.

Each of them brings experience from their respective line of work into Utter and provides a diverse sensory experience. Watch as Natalie weaves poetry into short stories in celebration of the diversity, honesty and power in Singaporean writing, as Ken Kwek employs cinematic conventions of time fragmentation to introduce chaos into the neat parallel-running lines of text on paper while Lee Thean-jeen turns the reading upon the reader and adds filmed footage for a new dimension to themes and topics explored.

Thirteen Ways of Looking and Other Observations utters naked truths and offers poignant and tender observations of life from the perspective of Singaporean writers. It weaves poems written by Yong Shu Hoong, Madeleine Lee, Ng Yi-Sheng, Cyril Wong, Alfian bin Sa’at, Toh Hsien Min, Alvin Pang and Felix Cheong into Alfian bin Sa’at’s short story Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Hanging.