Fresh off the Page 2017
Conflict Circle
by Ellison Tan (Singapore)
"The artist wants to perish in his line of work. The artist wants to die with grandeur. How un-heroic. How absurd. The actor was dying all along. What have we done to let that happen to us?"
A young playwright with three professional productions under her belt, Conflict Circle is Singaporean playwright Ellison Tan's foray into the absurd. Conflict Circle challenges the nature of theatre and the futility and absurdity of performance as three actors find themselves in the roles of a director, a stage manager and an usher.