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Eugene Tan has been Becca D’Bus since she was born 13 years ago. Becca is the host and producer of RIOT! Hosted by Becca D’Bus and one of The Glory Hoes. Becca has never won an amateur contest. Eugene is also one of the organisers of IndigNation, Singapore’s Pride Season.

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The Commission: Why do these three meet again?

By Eugene Tan (1,503 words, 5-minute read) As has become customary for every review of a Singapore International Festival of the Arts (SIFA) 2021 show (or as the festival programme now calls them, “content”), we should applaud the fact that these shows are happening at all. After all, COVID-19 restrictions are wildly challenging for artmaking […]

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“Private Parts”: Sometimes You’ve Got to Fix What God Gave You

This review contains some spoilers of a few of the sight gags and plot points in Private Parts. Private Parts was first performed in 1992, and in this staging, it hasn’t been re-written. Given that in it, transgender characters and the people around them attempt to articulate what being transgender means, how the rest of

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“Kumar50”: More significant than SG53

Marking Kumar’s 50th year alive, and the start of Dream Academy’s 2018 season at the Capitol Theatre, Kumar50 is a celebration, a retelling of history, but most of all, a show meant to entertain — Kumar is the undisputed queen, and star, of the Singapore drag scene. Kumar50 is also here to make some money:

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