Jean Tay by branson Tay

Jean Tay, 38.

diniebatrisyia_ — 2015-02-24 10:55:18 UTC

Early Life

xmiirxh — 2015-02-24 14:10:35 UTC

Jean Tay is a 38 years old woman who was an economist for 7 years following her double degree in Economics and Creative Writing from Brown University in the United States but stop because she did not enjoyed it She is now a full time mother to two of her daughters. She as directed to a play in 1997 called plunge. She needs to deal with figurines and the process of dealing with it. Jean wrote 'little stories' about every realities for Asian people at that time but she didt reported it.

Sources

xmiirxh — 2015-02-24 14:15:58 UTC

http://jeantayboom.wikispaces.com/Viewpoint+-+Jean+Tay

http://jeantayboom.wikispaces.com/Viewpoint+-+Dialogue+with+Jean+Tay

http://literature-boom.blogspot.sg/p/synopsis.html

Writing process

xmiirxh — 2015-02-24 14:22:46 UTC

Jean tends to write multi-narratives to demonstrates aspects of the problems and did not consider about the

play. There were 2 to 3 layers running through the play which covers both physical or living (En Bloc sales) and the dead (Government Re-Burials) aspects of the economic boom. She develop the play with help from the original director, Tracie Pang, and SRT by writing a draft. She began writing it in Oct/Nov 2007 and was eventually produced on stage in Sept 2008. Boom has around 10 to 11 drafts that she need to come out with before it was staged. She used singlish for this play to make it sound more authentic. She wrote death plays to have a morbid fascination with death, a kind of thinking about their own mortality.
also feels it reflects sadness about the value of a person’s memory.

Plays writen

xmiirxh — 2015-02-24 14:32:26 UTC

Everything but the brain (2006)

Boom (2008)

BOOM: a play by Jean Tay

diniebatrisyia_ — 2015-07-06 04:05:49 UTC

Boom, is a play written by local playwright Jean Tay, and is now an ‘O’ and ‘N’ Level Literature text. Set in land-scarce Singapore during a time of property boom as seen by the surge in en-bloc sales, which coincides with the implementation of the policy of exhuming graves that are more than 15 years old, the play demonstrates a recurring trope of the preoccupation with majority needs.
With this trend forming the backdrop of the play, Boom reveals the struggle of the individual against the pressure to conform to the needs of the majority. Boom tells the story of an elderly woman and her property agent son, Boon in Singapore, who are struggling over the potential en bloc sale of their home. Boon’s mother wants to remain at her old apartment and wait for her husband’s return despite pressures from her neighbours to participate at the en-bloc sale. Boon on the other hand, wants to be successful in a socially-desirable way but in his pursuits, forgets what he wants in life. Their destinies become interwoven with that of an idealistic civil servant, Jeremiah, who is facing the greatest challenge of his career – persuading a reluctant corpse to yield its memories. The corpse in the grave awaits his impending exhumation because the country and the living need the land. It is obvious that these characters have individual needs that differ from the majority but for them, there is only one fate and one ending. Boom tells about the relocation of both dead and living and how personal stories get left behind in the inexorable march of progress

Collaborative Reflection

diniebatrisyia_ — 2015-07-06 04:07:25 UTC

Jean Tay's play tells us about the people who has to conform to the majority needs of the society. This written play is about an individual that is struggling to conform to the majority needs. In this story, Jean Tay ensures that the characters are different and has their own personality, so that she can depict the problems that the characters are facing.

I feel that this play helps to depict the difficulties that anyone can face, while conforming to the society. Through this play, i learnt that we do not have to conform to the society just to fit in with the 'cool crowd'.

Jean Tay expresses the life of Singaporeans through Singlish, to show to the readers of the play that she is emphasizing on the life of most Singaporeans. Usually, Singaporeans would have to conform and try to fit in to the society just so that they would feel better about themselves.

This is so that they would not go through depression and pain. This play would help those that are suffering from these illnesses, helping them to cope with the mess in their life, Hence, i feel that this play is really helpful to those that are suffering.