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The Tower of Silence (2000)

Written and Directed by Wong Kwang Han

Cast

Davin Kaur
Tan Teow Meng
Wong Kwang Han
Karen
Natalie


Poster Design
Tan Teow Meng

Venue: The Substation Black Box
Date: 7-10 December, 2000, "Theatre Fest 2000"

"Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way oh what fun it is to ride on a one horse open sledge

And you'll see your soul quatered into little pieces and sold for lunch

To little girls walking on the road

A man on the road kept it in his bag

Could I have it back I asked him he said no

Little girl girl walking on the street

Where are you going I asked her

Turning around she smiled at me and walked away"

Synopsis

After spending the past 4 years in England Lynn returns to Singapore. As she meets up with her friends she realizes that sometimes time doesn't change anything, that certain things can never be buried and the truth will always ask to be told in whichever forms that it may take. That what one thought was dead and buried will rise again. As she navigates her way through the labyrinth of memories and relations, she realizes that what she had avoided all these time was in fact the most important thing of all.  A Tower of Silence is a place where the dead of the Zoroastrians place their dead to allow vultures to devour the bodies and return their remains to nature in a natural way.  It is a place for the dead to come to terms with being dead and for the living to come to terms with the dead.

2020 © Wong Kwang Han

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