What are the ties that bind? What does it mean to be related by blood? Is blood really thicker than water?
Funny, moving and close to the heart of every parent and child, Blood Binds challenges and explodes easy assumptions about parenthood through the lenses of age, desire and myth.
(Taken from the official website.)
Went for Blood Binds yesterday (Sunday). This is a double bill, i.e. two plays with one ticket. The first play, Sperm, is about a single 40-something career woman trying to buy sperm for assisted insemination, much to the chagrin of her mother. This play questions the idea of parenthood – is only parentS-hood admissable in Singapore? Also, it raises issues about what makes a family whole. I’m not sure I really like this play from the bottom of my heart. Sure, it’s funny, but there’s just that one missing thing I can’t really quite point out (ah, excuses, excuses).
I like The Lunar Interviews more. The play took myths and reinvents them, to give women a voice. For the longest time, men have been associated with the Sun, and women the Moon. In a dominant discourse where women are silenced, this play gives these mythical characters a voice. The play also revolves around writing – what makes it The Word, and how do people use words. (The linguist in me gave a little whoop in the air). What makes history? What makes authority? When you seize to hear, seize to speak, what happens from there?
And I loved the props for The Lunar Interviews. I want one of those crescent-shaped box as a rocking chair. :)
