Pushing boundaries in Singapore, one play at a time

Singaporean playwright Loretta Chen’s memoir reveals a life lived against the grain.

Two central themes of Loretta Chen’s book Woman On Top – sexuality and censorship – come at a timely moment for her home country of Singapore. In June, a record crowd turned out for a gay rights rally in the city-state, an event opposed by some religious groups that want to maintain a legal ban on same-sex relationships.