Got a fair bit of reading done here in Melaka, particularly focusing on plays. I completed the four included in the Collected Plays One of Alfian Sa'at and the seven comprising In the Company of Heroes by Verena Tay. I suppose the obvious thing to do now is to compare and contrast the two, traditional lit analysis style, but the obvious is not terribly fruitful. Yes, both writers are Singaporean, both deal with those questions of identity beloved of that tiny city state, and both deal at least to some degree with elements of the transgressive, but they are so fundamentally un-alike as to occupy very different worlds.
One world is familiarly comfortable: its challenges are containable. The other world isn't.
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