Be With Me

The romantic experiences of people from various walks of life - the hope found in love and companionship, and the emptiness suffered through lost and unrequited love - are interwoven to say as much about the importance of loving yourself as another. In a unique and largely successful play between its domestic multilingual Singapore audience and the subtitle dependant international audience, SMS and email act as methods of communication between characters in a general absence of dialogue. Furthermore, a voiceless subtitle narrates the segment belonging to blind and deaf actress Theresa Chang, blending fact and fiction through an incredibly touching semi-autobiographical performance. Implying a meaning across its narratives, through a balance of the intense and impetuous love of youth, the inherent wisdom and grief of a life lived, and the yearning and pain of those too timid to have lived as they wished, it's a well crafted bitter-sweet experience. [Jack McFarlane]