Saturday 1 June 2013

Review: Family Duets, Spell # 7


It is rare to see a family acting together on stage.  Spell #7's Paul and Kaylene Tan got their 2 girls and Kaylene's mother to appear on the Esplanade Theatre Studio stage for their latest production Family Duets.

The play was to "understand how life's big questions are present in the seemingly small and ordinary world of the family".  In certain respects, it worked - the interaction between Paul and the girls, Eleanor Song's account of her life. 

I did not really understand the lhe last segment, World Condo.  Probably I was getting a bit restless during the second half, where the direction of the production was a bit muddled.

A good attempt, maybe some tightening of the play would help.

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