The Wall Street Journal, 28 Mar 2009, TOM WRIGHT
"As Singapore lost electronics-manufacturing jobs to China and India, it repositioned itself as a global center of financial services, a kind of Dubai in Asia. Now, it is working to make itself attractive to more international tourists and foreign expatriates, by creating a climate where theater and other performing arts can thrive. "The arts and a vibrant culture are needed for Singapore to develop," says Huzir Sulaiman, a Princeton-educated playwright and actor who runs Checkpoint Theatre, a local drama house. In 2006, Checkpoint staged "A Language of Their Own," a play about Asian-American gays by Chay Yew, a U.S.-based Singaporean dramatist. The play was banned here as recently as the mid-1990s."
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