which sees Ellen struggling with forgetting Lesley and seeking courage to begin a new relationship with law professor Zee. Rounding up the trilogy is Jointly and Severably, and its lyrical tale of love turned sour. Wills and Secession (performed in 1996) sees Ellen now divorced from her husband and happily married to her wife in London.till she must return to care for her ailing father. In charting her protagonist's personal struggle to win acceptance from family and social circle, Wong pushes the 'coming out' message and moves closer to activism than seen in Russell Heng or Michael Chiang's more descriptive treatment of the LGBT subject. The first installation, Mergers and Accusations), tells the story of Ellen getting hitched to fellow lawyer and best friend Jon in a marriage of convenience, then leaving him and falling in love with Lesley. Invitation to Treat Trilogy, written by Eleanor Wong in 1993, tells the story of Ellen Toh, a law partner, coming to terms with her homosexuality.The play has also been performed in Mandarin. The Straits Times reported that 'Private Parts, with its remarkable performances and poignant message, is a special production that should not close until every person in this country has seen it'. Private Parts (1994), a comedy by Michael Chiang, addresses the theme of Singapore society’s capacity to come to terms with gender minorities in the form of transsexuals.The play highlights a society that is rather crushing on the protagonist’s desire to be true to herself. Lest the Demons Get To Me (1993) by Russell Heng depicts a dilemma in which a male-to-female transsexual resents having to dress up as a man to perform funeral rites as her dead father’s only son.A fairly regular stream of gay plays were staged in Singapore throughout the 1990s, raising the public profile of sexual minorities. It was in theatre that writers first challenged the cultural taboo surrounding homosexuality. The increasing boldness of local authors in sympathetically addressing LGBT themes is intertwined with the growth of English-language theatre in Singapore since the mid-1980s.

A Certain Exposure by Jolene Tan