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4 star Time Out review

No nationals but Time Out liked it:

Here are excerpts that don’t reveal the play:

“…Two men, one young, one middle-aged, watch over the sickbed of old Tommy Lee in a down-at-heel hospice room. The three of them bicker and jostle for position. There is talk of a stack of money hidden in the cupboard.

[Then] Yeoh’s ingenious twist makes itself known….

…Yeoh’s account of the immigrant experience – of Tommy’s journey from Malaysia and his acceptance into the social whirl of the 1960s – is cleverly played off against the generational conflict. … David KS Tse, Nicholas Goh and Jonanthan Chan-Pensley (in descending order of age) give decent performances in Bronwyn Lim’s production…

…the vertiginous sense of possibility and regret present in Yeoh’s intelligent script.”

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3 Responses to “4 star Time Out review”

  1. Hana Loftus on February 22nd, 2006

    Congrats. we hope to come next week. xx h

  2. stephen on February 22nd, 2006

    It’s well deserved praise, Ben. The play has a lightness of touch combined with a willingness to take on the sweep of a man’s life. It’s moving and, as TO says, intelligent.
    The nationals not coming is more a symptom of their lack of resources. With so many openings, they’re thinly stretched. The Pulitzer-winning play at Southwark hasn’t had a Guardian/Times/Standard review – press night was the same as yours.

    Gawd bless Time Out!

  3. Ben Yeoh on February 22nd, 2006

    Thank you so much for your kind comments and wonderful support.

  • About me

    I'm a playwright and investment analyst. I have a broad range of interests: food, gardening, innovation & intellectual property, sustainability, architecture & design, writing and the arts. I sit on the board of Talawa Theatre Company and advise a CIS investment trust on socially responsible investments.

  • Recent Work

    Recent plays include, for theatre: Nakamitsu, Yellow Gentlemen, Lost in Peru, Lemon Love. For radio: Places in Between (R4), Patent Breaking Life Saving (WS).

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