Concept for Drama Presentation

1. THE NUTMEG SAGA
A Play Concept (with Music and Dance)
Word Forward Presents
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2. An Epic Narrative Poem
by Chris Mooney-Singh
Published in Lontar Journal, 2013.
BASED ON
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3. WF TEAM
Director: Jonathan Lim
Writer: Chris Mooney-Singh
WF Producer: Savinder Kaur
Dr I.N. Sedana (Bali music and choreography)
Music and Multimeda: Arctic Fox Studio, Ivan Chew
Set Design: Ratna Odata (Balinese-Singapore)
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4. Balinese Performance Elements
Spore Partner: Gamelan SingaMurti
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5. A narrative poetic text in English
Balinese gamelan, topeng (mask
dance), wayang kulit
Contemporary staging and
multimedia highlights.
A MIXED PRODUCTION
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6. JAYAWARMAN
The story of an
imaginary rajah,
Jayawarman IX from
the beginning of his
dynasty.
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7. A mountaintop in Bali
Dead rajah dialogues with son, while sharing
boiled eggs cooked in the fissures of the volcano
Singaporean climbers explore the summit and
hear Balinese stories from guide.
SETTING
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8. JUXTAPOSTIONS
The work takes post-
modern techniques of
multiple juxtaposed
storytelling: past and
present, the immortal
and mortal worlds,
represented by
humans, masks and
puppets
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9. NARRATIVE CONCEPT
Narrative intention: to
draw the audience
forward discovering
through an unfolding
story their position on
Puputan - warrior
sacrifice VS mass ritual
suicide
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10. CLIMAX: PUPUTAN
‘Sacrifice by ‘fighting
to the death’
Ritual royal mass
suicide
c.f. passive non-
resistance:
Satragraha --
Gandhi’s political
strategy
Puputan Bali, 1906
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11. COLONIALISM VS
ASIAN CULTURE
Javanese-Balinese
traditions and the
‘spice race’ colonial
period overlap with
Spore history, also on
the ‘spice trade-
route’ and a nutmeg
producer
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12. SPORE RELEVANCE
This post-colonial story
is as generic to
historical Singapore as
to the region
To be timed with
Spore’s 50 year
Birthday Celebration in
2015
Nutmeg and Mace, 2009
ION Orchard's signature sculpture
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13. Phase 1 - Bali Arts Festival production, July
2014
Phase 2 - Melbourne production 2014-15
Phase 3 - Singapore Festival production, 2015
SCHEDULE
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14. A grant to adapt script
for dramatic
performance
Research funding to re-
visit Bali - 10-14 days
Production grant to
mount Phase 1
performance at Bali
Arts Festival, July 2014
Furtheer funding to
upscale to Melbourne
productions and
Singapore, 2015
WHAT WE NEED
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15. WORD
FORWARD
THANKS
YOU
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