Mosaic

18 Aug - 20th Aug 2023

Presented by The Esplanade, Studios

Written by Joel Tan

Directed by Tan Shou Chen

An old playground in Ang Mo Kio is slated to be bulldozed. Three 20-something friends and a stranger gather to protest its demolition. What starts as a well-meaning but ill-conceived protest escalates quickly to a night of reckoning. Relationships are tested, convictions challenged and identities scrapped. Much like the playground itself, the lives of these four characters are sucked into an endless cycle of forgetting, destruction, loss and letting go.

An ode to the hang-ups and dramas of a generation coming of age, Joel Tan’s Mosaic is a funny and witty look at the rose-tint of nostalgia and the uncertainty of change.

“The young set of actors embody their roles exceptionally well, each one bringing to the stage an angry, agitated energy melded with world-weariness…Irsyad Dawood brings a faux macho masculinity to Hanis, a slight hint of alcohol-fuelled confidence after a few beers, while also possessing a fragile sense of fear and vulnerability at losing Sharon once and for all.”

- Bakchormeeboy