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18-24 April 2020: Sharul Channa’s Am I Old? (Online Edition)
April 6th, 2020 | Events, News, Older People and Caregiving
Savitri, a 68-year-old, Singaporean retired school teacher, is looking for something exciting to do. So she tries stand-up comedy for the first time. Armed with nothing but her PAssion Card and her Pioneer Generation Package, Savitri is ready to hit you with her best punch lines about unrequited love, being a caregiver and, of course, coming to terms with age. After all, her rallying cry is “old woman, new jokes”!
Am I Old? is a comedic monologue written and performed by local comedy pioneer Sharul Channa. The innovative new show earned rave reviews from audiences in March 2020, and is now coming to you via Zoom! Choose one of three performance times:
Saturday, 18 April 2020, 11:30 AM
Wednesday, 22 April 2020, 6:30 PM
Friday, 24 April 2020, 6:30 PM
To make the show as accessible as possible to audiences during COVID-19, this special virtual edition of Am I Old? is pay what you can. (We suggest a $10 donation per audience member.)
Before your selected show, you will receive an email with instructions on how to watch on Zoom. Do check your email on the day before the show, to ensure that you have received this link.
Each performance will be followed by a panel discussion with a family caregiver, an elderly person and a representative from AWARE (whose 2019 eldercare report “Make Care Count” provided foundational research for this show).
About Sharul Channa:
Over the past two years, Sharul Channa has proven her ability to use comedy to shed light on important, and sometimes neglected, social issues in Singapore. In 2017, she deconstructed misogyny at Indian weddings with Sharul Weds Sharul, performed to sold-out theatres at The Esplanade and at The Darwin Festival in Australia. In 2018, she cycled through multiple characters in Disco Sheela and Other Indian Superwomen, a show that left “listeners breathless with laughter, and in the next moment, unable to breathe because the truth hurts” (The Straits Times, LIFE!).
Most recently, in a performance that earned her a Best Actress nomination at The Straits Times LIFE! Theatre Awards, Channa highlighted the plight of women living below the poverty line in Singapore, in her landmark solo 2019 piece, Crazy Poor Sita.