The Audience

Audio is sound, and audience want to hear your soul's sound;
audio insight, and enlightened audience want to listen to your soul's vision.

The Audience

One day they will come for us:
the foolish ones, the intellectuals,
One day we will burn
like scrolls in Alexandria.

One day they will break down the gates
of our black box operas and ateliers.
Rip the masks from our faces
and the angklungs from our hands.

Listen,
they've sacked a museum,
outlawed an Aztec epic.
They've dynamited an Afghan Buddha,
censored a film.

Listen,
the Khmer Rouge just called;
they want to take your photo.
The revolution must always
devour her brightest children.

Tonight you may sleep with them,
eat of their festivals, drink of their mooncake,
engineer their Moscow mausoleums-
but never forget:

One day, they will come,
a might parade, in a stadium built of our bones.
Open your mouth and sing:

it has always happened,

it has not happened, yet.

About 72-13: A converted rice warehouse, 72-13 is the home of TheatreWorks (www.theatreworks.org.sg)

Open Call: 72-13 invites creatives to apply to hold once-off non profit events in the space. TheatreWorks will provide the space free of charge barring technical charges. Please write to Tay Tong at twork@singnet.com.sg
-curation process will apply.