SIFA 2023: POMPEII

Drama Centre Theatre, 100 Victoria Street,#05-01, National Library Building, Museum, Singapore

Friday June 2 2023 – Sunday June 4 2023 ... more

When:

Fri Jun 2 2023, 8:00pm–9:30pm

Sat Jun 3 2023, 8:00pm–9:30pm

Sun Jun 4 2023, 3:00pm–4:30pm

Where: Drama Centre Theatre, 100 Victoria Street,#05-01, National Library Building, Museum, Singapore

Restrictions: All ages

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Duration: 1hr 30m, intermission TBC

POMPEII plays out on a live soundstage, in which the lives of an imagined apartment building’s inhabitants materialise before us. Trapped in a bomb shelter, a narrator tells us the story of an apartment block in which the lives of its residents were anything but - until a catastrophe reduced them to the inanimate, their lives existing only as object and memory. Exploring the archaeology of intimacy, POMPEII questions if the objects and spaces that we leave behind in death represent that which we were, or betray the true nature that we ourselves denied in life.

Image courtesy of Joseph Nair.