Mar 09, 2012
University Cultural Centre Courtyard
50 Kent Ridge Crescent, NUS Centre for Arts, 119279. Tel: 6516 2492
8pm
Price: Free admission
Official Website: http://www.nus.edu.sg/cfa/NAF_2012/index.html
Description
Singapore Dreaming 《 美满人生》is a story about a family with big dreams, living on a small island. Heavily in debt, patriarch Loh Poh Huat can’t help but feel bitter irony whenever he has to perform his job as a lawyer’s clerk – seizing goods from the homes of credit card debtors. At the end of his career and frustrated by the gulf between his middle class dreams and his working class reality, he takes his feelings of failure and envy out on his family. So when Poh Huat suddenly wins two million dollars in the lottery, the Lohs start believing that maybe this windfall will deliver them from their struggles. But something happens which pitches the family into a battle where the stakes are the very meaning of life itself…
Singapore Dreaming is a poignant, yet darkly humorous story about a typical Singaporean family coming to grips with their aspirations. It weaves a layered and moving tale about a family dealing with loss, ambition and the search for what really matters in life.
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