Hurray !

CONGRATULATIONS!

to Wild Rice and The Importance Of Being Ernest for bagging the Production Of The Year Award, Best Supporting Actor (Chua Enlai) and Best Costume Design (Frederick Lee) at the Life! Theatre Awards! 

I was glad to read that The Importance Of Being Ernest bagged so many awards solely because having caught it, I always thought it was a play very cleverly put together. Despite having been given a "16 years and above" advisory by the MDA because of it's all-male cast and therefore losing out on the Tote Board's Art Grant that subsidises 60% of student priced tickets, The Importance Of Being Ernest still ran to a sell out crowd during it's 2 week run at the Drama Centre. I love it when local plays get the support they deserve!

With live music by the T'ang Quartet and beautiful beautiful suits by Frederick Lee, the whole play was like being in a dream. Never mind Enlai playing a Gwendolyn or Ivan Heng playing Gwendolyn's mother or never mind that this all might've been a shout out to the government to repeal Section 377A, for art's sake - the play was good. 

Congratulations once again! You did well !