A review by michelleful
Cooling-Off Day by Alfian Sa'at

4.0

A play showcasing different Singaporeans' opinions about the electoral climate in Singapore. I thought a good range was displayed and many of the opinions I found familiar. I find it kind of funny that the three most incisive and, from a vantage point of nine years on, prescient pieces were from two people, one a civil servant (the one who really loves the East Side) and one an ex-civil servant (who talked about structural barriers to change). Despite criticising how the government is set up to promote many of the same type of people and becoming prone to stale groupthink, I feel like they as insiders had the best grasp on how the system works and what will happen next, or what needs to happen next.