I would like to say at the outset that I am totally incompetent to discuss public theatre in Singapore or indeed anywhere else. I have no experience in running a theatre company or an arts centre nor have I trodden the boards for the last twenty-plus years. Although I do occasionally partake of the offerings provided by some of the arts groups in Singapore, I cannot be considered as one of their enthusiastic and dedicated supporters who throng to each and every one of their productions. My sole link to the theatre is my good fortune to have a niece who is a playwright, among her other more esoteric and creative activities, and whose work for the theatre often drew gasps of admiration from an unschooled person such as I.
