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The Homecoming
Stripped-down and intimate, The Homecoming opens our eyes to migrant workers’ unseen struggles and hopes while living apart from their loved ones.
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Sun, 31 Aug 2025
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Sun, 31 Aug 2025: 4:45 pm,5:45 pm,6:45 pm
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The Homecoming | Red Dot August 2025 | Free | Migrant Writers of Singapore | Migrant Writers of Singapore | Event
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The Homecoming

Migrant Writers of Singapore (Singapore)
Red Dot August 2025TheatreStorytelling
31 Aug 2025
Esplanade Concourse
30mins (No Intermission)
Free
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Photo credit: Kim Montenegro

Synopsis

What do you leave behind when you go in search for a better life?

 

The Homecoming is a stripped-down, soul-baring play about migrant workers’ quiet struggles and deep hopes while living apart from their families. Told through intimate conversations and monologues, the performance captures the ache of absence, the weight of sacrifice and the enduring pull of home.

 

Heartfelt and rich with emotion, these are raw, real and brutally human stories that are not often told.

 

Director: Audrey Teong  

Playwright: Ellen Lavilla  

Cast: Ade Rayani, Christine Alcabasa, Laila Tadile, Jacquelyn Arindon, Noor Jannah Jani and Nelie Bautista

Guitarist: Lim Shi-An

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