Long Weekend (2016)

Long Weekend Audiences are welcomed into the multi-purpose hall, rebranded as a classroom space, and prepare themselves for a (tardy) lesson about gay relationship issues and gay history of Singapore. To this reviewer, that is what Long Weekend is about. A “Fresh!” production that’s part of the Twenty-Something Theatre Festival, the 45- minute performance starts with an over-the-top pre-show. Recorded tracks of speeches from both camps of the LGBT movement are on repeat (the one

Long Weekend It is incredibly jarring to stroll through the quaint and idyllic Dakota Crescent estate and then walk into the pre-show madness of Kenneth Chia’s Long Weekend. If Dakota Crescent is Singapore’s peaceful exterior, Long Weekend is the hidden interior, full of psychic repression. The play takes place within the head of one Han Lin, mourning the loss of his lover, Keith. They are similar, lanky and with impish grins and bursting with shared anecdotes. Keith appears inside Han