Produced by Impromptu Meetings
Lotus Root Support Group (2024)
9th October 2024 - 13th October 2024
Fringe Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
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Creators and Performers: Shannen Tan and Miriam Cheong
Producers: Adeeb Fazah and Miriam Cheong
Sound Designer: Mark Benedict Cheong
Dramaturg: Sonia Kwek
Slides Operator: Lim Shien Hian
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Miriam and Shannen are two broke theatre-makers with many things in common: A love of anime? Check. Went to the same primary school, secondary school AND junior college? Check. Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome? Double check.
With ovaries that have more holes in them than Swiss cheese, insurance companies rejecting them for being “too high risk”, and existential crises about womanhood, Miriam and Shannen are banding together to deal with it the only way they know how: making theatre about it. But what if the differences they face through this are irreconcilable? What if their cyst-erhood is not as strong as they initially thought? And what does a Potato Rap have to do with all of this?
Candidly discussing the struggles of living with under-researched and misunderstood chronic illness, Lotus Root Support Group affirms the importance of human connections in times of struggle, as rocky and tumultuous as they may be. Because we can’t make it through life alone.
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The pair has an endearing vulnerability...a scene drenched in red stage lights, where Tan and Cheong take turns narrating as the other acts out their aspirational selves, is a defining highlight.
The Age
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Loving the Singaporean humour! It's educational, funny, relatable and honest. Highly recommend checking them out.’