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11 - 13 November 2004 MOX Bar & Cafe
A play about the emotional effects of AIDs, a story of friendship and love. An excerpt…"I visit Michael in hospital again. He's free-associating today... and straightaway I'm one of his mates from the Army, and he's resting in his bunk after a late night on duty. We talk for forty minutes. He's animated and cheerful, and describes to me how much he's enjoying duty, talking about the new recruits' marching and drilling skills... and all the while, of course, he's too weak even to stand up. There I sit, reliving these old memories with him, thinking to myself, "Now, keep up, Lawrence; stick with him; these are happy memories; help him relive them." In the end, we're both giggling at the antics of this new recruit or that--and it really does stop being pretending after awhile, because he's a good storyteller: it's like I really was there in the Army with him. I hug him goodbye and then walk back to work--chuckling to myself, but frowning too. My friend is slipping away from me. God, I want a little more time. "
Artist involved - Benny Lim / Lawrence Wong
