Visible Cities

Friday May 22, 2009 - Saturday May 23, 2009
At 8:00pm

Drama Centre
National Library Building
Singapore, Central Singapore

New York-based Singapore playwright Chay Yew collaborates with Italian director Giorgio Barberio Corsetti in a cross-cultural foray featuring a mixed Italian and Asian cast from Singapore, China and America.

Did you know more than a hundred people around the world made your dress? Do you know if your handbag is real or fake? Is your shirt really made in Italy or in China? How much does your blouse really cost?

Visible Cities explores the high stakes realities of international fashion, globalism, immigration and counterfeit culture that traverse two separate continents and narratives. In one story, we meet Bianca, an agoraphobic Italian woman who strikes up an unusual friendship with a Fish in a post-apocalyptic world. In another, we meet an Italian merchandiser and an ambitious Singapore Chinese fashion buyer who visit clothing factories in China. Interspersing these narratives is a sharp glimpse at the real and imagined lives that connect these two stories from two different worlds.

Inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities describing conversations on real and imagined cities between Macro Polo and Kublai Khan, Visible Cities is a modern tale that contemplates different cultural journeys, their historical and contemporary realities, and their common interest : trade.

A co-commission and co-production by the Singapore Arts Festival and the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia.

Information

• Date: Friday, May 22, 2009 - Saturday, May 23, 2009
• Hours: 8:00 p.m.
• Venue: Drama Centre Theatre - National Library, 100 Victoria Street
• Organized by: Singapore Arts Festival and Napoli Teatro Festival Italia
• In collaboration with: Italian Institute of Culture

Ticket Info: $50, $40, $30, $20