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Deciphering eros and enigma : between the plays and pictures of Lee Joo For
Duration: 120 minutes without intermission
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Duration: 120 minutes without intermission
Adele Tan, Senior Curator at National Gallery Singapore, will share the work and life of the fascinating and eccentric Lee Joo For and talk about his visual and theatrical legacy. There will be a staged reading of some of his absurdist theatre curated by Jo Kukathas.
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Saturday
8th
Nov 2025
3:00PM (GMT+8)
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About
Lee Joo For was one of the 1960s most prolific playwrights writing over 30 plays (and more under pseudonyms!) with such eclectic titles as The Campus is Not a Baby Land, Nero Has Arisen in Malaysia, When the Sun Sets in the Shade of the Jambu Tree. Today he is best known as a boundary-pushing visual artist but in the 60s he was part of the theatre movement, writing plays, designing brochures, creating sets alongside Syed Ahmad Jamal.
A talk by curator Adele Tan and readings from some of his most fascinating plays directed by Jo Kukathas. Actors include Jerrica Lai, Arief Hamizan, Putrina Rafie, Firdaus Sufiyan, Thor Kah Hoong, Craig Hayden and Jun Vinh Teoh.
In collaboration with the Ilham Gallery as part of ILHAM Conversations.
