Strong performances fuel this powerful, compassionate and often-funny exploration of inheritance and intergenerational trauma
Merlynn Tong wrote and stars in Golden Blood – a sharply observed two-hander about orphaned siblings in Singapore – alongside Charles Wu.Merlynn Tong wrote and stars in Golden Blood – a sharply observed two-hander about orphaned siblings in Singapore – alongside Charles Wu.urning as an act of ritual is such an ancient tradition, it’s easy to forget why we do it.
The play opens with that cremation, the two siblings standing in silhouette against a brightly coloured wall like forced participants in a James Turrell exhibition. It’s an abstracted image, but it neatly conveys the power and impact of the funeral pyre, its violence and its finality. Of course, the dead are only as dead as we allow them to be, and soon the fallout of their mother’s legacy begins to haunt the children, even to corrupt their relationship.
After a long opening scene of negotiation folded into the shock of loss, Golden Blood settles into a jolting, rapid-fire rhythm – he indulges in increasingly hare-brained money making schemes, first as the “king of ketamine” and then as the “god of gold”, and she gets pulled unwillingly along. While this has an undeniable dynamism, Leong’s overemphasis on raucousness and ribaldry crowds out the more contemplative aspects of the script.
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