The Optic Trilogy
By Alfian Sa’at
May 2018 at The Alchemical Studios, NYC
Three stories, three first encounters: A tourist and a rent boy, a photographer and his blind subject, a woman and her internet date. Poem and meditation, lyric and punchline, Alfian Sa'at's meditation on metropolitan loneliness probes into the tangled web of Singaporean (post)modernity and lays bare the tricks of memory, light, and chance.
Collaborators
Playwright: Alfian Sa'at
Director: Kai Sundermann
Performers: Sim Yan Ying "YY" & Nishad More
Dramaturgy by Ruth Tang
Lighting Design by Ebony Burton
Photos by Aaron Kho