ABOUT THE BOOK/ BLURB
This collection of four plays by Alfian Sa’at explores the themes that have become a hallmark of the playwright’s work: national identity, racial relations, and the resistance of individuals against authoritarian systems. In The Optic Trilogy, the surfacing of buried secrets and repressed memories profoundly alters the way a man and woman see each other. In Fugitives, the members of a family discover that their self-definition relies on their interactions with ‘outsiders’ who exist beyond their comfort zones. In Homesick, a diasporic Singaporean family, quarantined during the SARS crisis, evaluate the meanings of home. And in sex.violence.blood. gore, the facade of a rigid, orderly society is peeled away to reveal chaotic passions.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Alfian Sa’at is the Resident Playwright of W!LD RICE. His plays have been translated into German and Swedish, and they have been read and performed in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, London, Berlin, Hamburg, Zurich and Stockholm. He has been nominated for the Life! Theatre Awards for Best Original Script six times, and has received the award twice.

Alfian was the winner of the SPH-NAC Golden Point Award for Poetry and the Singapore Young Artist Award for Literature in 2001. His other publications include the poetry collections One Fierce Hour and A History of Amnesia, as well as the short story collection Corridor.