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Praise
“An instant classic”
—The Business Times
“Wild Rice’s HOTEL is a five-star experience! There are stories that break the heart and others that split the sides and fill the soul…”
— The Straits Times
“Hotel isn’t just theatre. It’s an act of healing… It reminds us of the richness and diversity of this island’s past… ”
— The Online Citizen
About the Playwrights
Alfian Sa’at is the Resident Playwright of Wild Rice. He was the winner of the Golden Point Award for Poetry and the National Arts Council (NAC) Singapore Young Artist Award for Literature in 2001. His publications include Collected Plays One, Two and Three, the poetry collections One Fierce Hour and A History of Amnesia, and the short-story collections Corridor and Malay Sketches. Alfian has been nominated 12 times for Best Original Script at the Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards. He has won it in 2005 for Landmarks, Nadirah (2010), Kakak Kau Punya Laki (Your Sister’s Husband, 2014), and Hotel (with Marcia Vanderstraaten, 2016).
Marcia Vanderstraaten obtained her MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts Asia. She previously served as assistant director for Wild Rice’s The House Of Bernarda Alba (2014). Some of her other works include Micromanage Overwork Exaggerate (The Common Folk, 2014), a semi-docudrama on teachers and the Singapore education system and Mind Map of Love (Skinned Knee Productions, 2015), a dinner-theatre show staged in collaboration with ZOTT’s True Alps that was based on the novel of the same title by Christian Zott. She was an associate artist with Wild Rice from 2014 to 2016.