From the director Christian Johnson

A place of peace? What does it mean to be loved & accepted? And what thread do we weave in defining our fate? These are the questions that the devised piece “Them” poses to the world.  Two seemingly independent souls, each on their separate journey of (re)discovering their queerness, embody apparitions of the past. Debating and questioning what trauma and love have done to each other. X & Lisa are the duo protagonists of the story. X represents who we once were, and Lisa represents who we have yet to be. The play takes place on an incorporeal stage that transforms into the will of X & Lisa. “Them” is a play in which I see a tangled web that gets longer the more we unravel ourselves and inevitably are freed by it or encased.

From the creator Xin “Zinc“ Tong

Them was born out of one single thought: living in the queerest city in the world, why is it still hard to find home? The journey of devising this piece with Marg and Christian has been the closest I ever came close to an artistic queer utopia. We talk about gender norms, familial expectations, internal queerphobia and everything everywhere along the line or out of the place. Marg and I share so much in where we come from, and yet we are also different in the way we see ourselves in our queerness. By holding the space for others, we are able to make our own voice heard even louder. Them is a sharing of our attempt to find home, and maybe the answer is not in the destination but in the attempt itself.