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Art v government at Singapore festival: 'I fear once I leave, they will punish me' by Steph Harmon

Ong Keng Sen's experience as director of the national festival has shed light on overt and covert censorship of the arts in SingaporeIn many ways, theatremaker Ong Keng Sen was a natural fit to run the Singapore international festival of arts when it relaunched in 2014. A recipient of Singapore's Cultural Medallion, Ong's company TheatreWorks signalled a new creative movement when it was founded in 1985. He was there…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM on September 8, 2017

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