A little while ago I enjoyed an opportunity to watch a streamed recording of the play “Paper,” written and directed by Singaporean playwright Tze Chien Chong; it debuted with a chiefly (or all-?) Japanese cast in Kôchi (Shikoku) and Yokohama in 2024, after a number of years of delay due to the Covid pandemic. The […]
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