South-East Asian Plays

Covering topics as diverse as the global financial crisis, religious faith, the sex trade, corruption and exploitation, these plays provide insight into the differing concerns of those living in a part of the world which is experiencing profound change. Includes the work of playwrights from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia.

Cheryl Robson has worked for the BBC and as a film lecturer. She founded the Virginia Prize for Fiction in 2009 in the UK. She is an award-winning playwright who has received Arts Council UK commission and option awards and had several plays produced. She ran a theatre company for several years in London, UK, developing and producing international plays by women. She introduced plays by Dacia Maraini, Nawal el saadawi and Marina Carr, among others, to a UK audience. She has edited several anthologies of drama for Aurora Metro, winning the Raymond Williams Award for Seven Plays by Women.’ Other awards include a Special Jury Prize for Peace for her work on The Arab-Israeli Cookbook’ by Robin Soans and her doc Rock N Roll Island was recently nominated for Best Short Film at Raindance, London 2015.

Aubrey Mellor is a leading Australian Theatre Director. Currently Senior Fellow at LASALLE, in Singapore, he was the first Australian to study Asian writing. Formerly Director of the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), he is well-known as an acting teacher to a generation of acclaimed Australian actors. He has directed for all major companies, commissioned and premiered plays by Australia’s leading playwrights and is a leading proponent of new Australian writing.