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9, 10 and 15 May 2020: Sharul Channa’s Am I Old? (Mother’s Day Special Virtual Edition)
April 27th, 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 has earned rave reviews from audiences in both live and Zoom formats! Now, join us for a special Mother’s Day edition in May.
Choose one of three performance times:
Saturday, 9 May 2020, 8 – 9.30PM
Sunday, 10 May 2020, 3 – 4.30PM
Friday, 15 May 2020, 8 – 9.30PM
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, with donations going to AWARE. (We suggest a $10 donation per audience member.)
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).
How to watch:
1. Before your selected show, you will receive an email from AWARE/Eventbrite with instructions on how to register on Zoom. Do check your email on the day before the show, to ensure that you have received this link.
2. Once you register, you will be led to a Zoom link to join the meeting. (Alternatively, you will also receive an email titled “Am I Old? Confirmation” from Shailey Hingorani with this same link.) Click this link to enter the performance.
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.