Free tickets: Kumar strips bare

I have been at rehearsals for the past week for Kumar’s show, and I speak for every­one when I say we are hav­ing damn a lot of fun, can?

It’s also been a real priv­i­lege to be the writer for this show, because the stuff that Kumar’s been spew­ing dur­ing our work­shops has been just rev­e­la­tion after rev­e­la­tion — about his remark­able life and his com­pli­cated fam­ily, and about being Indian in Singapore.

Some­times its hard to tell if Kumar’s being seri­ous or not — like when he asks me as he flips through the script, “Ben, you have all these Indian jokes, and then got the Malay one, and one Eurasian one, but don’t have Chi­nese racist joke. Why ah?”

Yanked my chain good.

I wish some­one else would come, watch rehearsals and write about how much of a kick­ass show this is going to be, because, you know, if the writer tells you his­self, it’s kinda lame.

There is so much life in Kumar’s retelling of his life’s expe­ri­ences that writ­ing them down has been a real joy, with anec­dotes and punches jump­ing off the pages and onto the rehearsal stage.

So, I’ve asked the pro­duc­ers for a pair of tick­ets to give away here. All you need to do is answer this ques­tion cor­rectly, and the per­son that gives the first cor­rect answer wins.

Q: What was Kumar’s voca­tion in national service?

Kumar: Stripped Bare & Stand­ing Up
Venue: Esplanade The­atre
Dates: 19 — 21 March 2009
Tick­ets (sell­ing really fast): Sis­tic