ABSTRACT
This chapter parses out the specificities of performing politics in Singapore by examining two plays from The Necessary Stage (TNS). By unpacking their dramaturgical ambiguities, she questions if an avoidance of an overtly political stance renders them inefficacious. She concludes that the plays’ intrigue lies in their resistance to being labelled either as performing their own co-option, or as a subversive undermining of authoritarian state mechanisms.
