For Kok Heng Leun, memories of Pulau Ubin, an island northeast of mainland Singapore, go as far back as when he was a teenager.
“The space is quite laid back, which is something that I really enjoy,” he says.
For Koh Hui Ling, who grew up in a village, the island reminds her of her childhood — “the roads, the lights, especially at nighttime”.
In preparation for their site-specific performance titled ubin, a Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) commission, two co-directors from Drama Box, a Singaporean theatre company known for socially conscious work, have been bringing equipment to the island and taking them back to the mainland every night, not only to…
