Dialogues on Difference Through Youth Theatre: M1 Peer Pleasure Engages the Other in Singapore

Theatre education in Singapore has occurred primarily through non-formal processes of ‘learning by doing’ in theatre productions and co-curricular activity in schools. So how do young people deal with difference and what is their approach to staging issues of difference in multicultural Singapore? This paper explores how cultural difference has played a significant part of contemporary theatre making since the 1980s, and continues to impact the development of local performance styles and forms. This has included dealing with diversities of language, religion, ethnicity and sexuality as part of the cultural fabric in this small but complex nation.

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