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Title: Keng Sen as ageing belle
Post by: Natasha on October 03, 2008, 11:32:54 AM
Post by: Natasha on October 03, 2008, 11:32:54 AM
Keng Sen as ageing belle
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Lifestyle/Story/STIStory_284813.html (http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Lifestyle/Story/STIStory_284813.html)
10/2/2008
Ong will be playing a male Chinese accountant who transforms himself
into a drag queen during the 90-minute performance. He also stars in a
six-minute video segment directed by multimedia artist Brian Gothong
Tan.
His character imagines himself to be Hollywood actress Vivien Leigh in
her iconic role as ageing Southern belle Blanche DuBois in the
Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire, who clings to
delusions of beauty and class. Leigh won an Oscar for Best Actress for
playing Blanche in the 1951 film adaptation of the play.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Lifestyle/Story/STIStory_284813.html (http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Lifestyle/Story/STIStory_284813.html)
10/2/2008
Ong will be playing a male Chinese accountant who transforms himself
into a drag queen during the 90-minute performance. He also stars in a
six-minute video segment directed by multimedia artist Brian Gothong
Tan.
His character imagines himself to be Hollywood actress Vivien Leigh in
her iconic role as ageing Southern belle Blanche DuBois in the
Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire, who clings to
delusions of beauty and class. Leigh won an Oscar for Best Actress for
playing Blanche in the 1951 film adaptation of the play.