Poor Thing

by Haresh Sharma (Playwright)

Another day in Singapore. Another minor road accident. Another incident of road rage? Typical Singaporeans.

Poor Thing, The Necessary Stage's groundbreaking production in 2014 by Alvin Tan and Haresh Sharma, grapples with the issue of road rage.

A unique production involving social media interaction, Poor Thing invites audience members to watch a video clip of an accident before they enter the theatre to catch the 'live' action on stage.

During the performance, more clips are posted online which the audience can view and comment on.

Poor Thing challenges you to explore what drives road rage in Singapore.

140 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2015

About the author

Haresh is Resident Playwright of The Necessary Stage and co-Artistic Director of the annual M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. To date, he has written more than 100 plays. His play, Off Centre, was selected by the Ministry of Education as a Literature text for N and O Levels, and republished by The Necessary Stage in 2006. In 2008, Ethos Books published Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 6, written by Prof David Birch and edited by A/P Kirpal Singh, which presented an extensive investigation of Haresh's work over the past 20 years. A collection of Haresh’s plays have been translated into Mandarin and published by Global Publishing with the title '哈里斯·沙玛剧作选'.

Haresh was awarded Best Original Script for Fundamentally Happy, Good People and Gemuk Girls during the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Life! Theatre Awards respectively. In 2010, the abovementioned plays have also been published by The Necessary Stage in the collection entitled Trilogy. Most recently in 2011, 2 collections of short plays by Haresh entitled Shorts 1 and Shorts 2 have been published as well. Haresh was also the first non-American to be awarded the prestigious Goldberg Master Playwright by New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2011.