Villains Converge On One Stage For “The Return Of The V”
SINGAPORE: Join Mas Selamat, Edison Chen and TT Durai, all in one room, as they set about to add more jest into already segregated speculations about their escapades and infernal affairs.
They are impersonated, but of course, for if otherwise, the St James Power Station would be surrounded by cops and Hong Kong mafias come Wednesday night.
After a show-stopping success in its first run last year, Irene Ang, one of Singapore’s favourite comedians, is bringing “The V Conference” back, this time as “The Return of the V”.
Like the inaugural show, she promises this year’s show to be filled with gut-wrenching laughs and daring and controversial topics, but unlike last year, “The Return of the V” is “meatier”, “juicier” and altogether “more delicious”.
While the previous show was mostly about women and wisecracks about their, erm, “V”, this sequel’s “V” actually means “Villains and Victims”, where Irene and her partner-in-crime actor-comedian Chua Enlai portray newsmakers in another light.
“For example,” said Irene, in an interview with Channelnewsasia.com, “I will be interviewing Edison (Chen) and asking him what were his inspirations for his artsy photography.
“But the whole idea is not to make these people look bad; it’s to present another view of the story. It’s funny, but it also makes people think about if these newsmakers are they really villains or perhaps they are the victims - maybe they are the good people.”
Besides men, the pair will also be bringing back, by popular request, funny female characters from the previous show such as “Guan Yin Ma” (the Goddess of Mercy), the Singapore Girl, as well as Mrs Heng, the Peranakan talk show host.
Irene also said that apart from being more seasoned this time round, both comedians are also more comfortable with the stand-up as they, along with the director, Beatrice Chia, wrote the script themselves.
“Being our own scriptwriters, it was much easier for us to execute… memorising lines was much easier because we came out with the jokes ourselves,” she said.
According to the comedian, at least 10 well-known people who made the headlines recently would be featured in the show.
Although tight-lipped with more information, she revealed that audiences may just hear all about terror fugitive Mas Selamat’s prison break from another point of view - from the “prison kitchen dish-washing aunties”.
Of course, audiences are urged not to panic, watch the play with a pinch of salt, and carefully scrutinize suspicious characters for authenticity before calling the police.
“The Return of the V” will run for five nights from November 5 at Movida, St James Power Station.
Tickets are priced at S$48, including one beer. Performances on November 4 and 5 have been sold out.
- CNA/yb
Channel News Asia