Abstract:Studies of the spaces of citizenship, spaces of democracy, and political performance in public space have often focused on the importance of key sites that perform the political identities of citizens and politicians as well as the process of democracy itself. This paper argues that in the case of Singapore, contemporary theatre is the most important public space of citizenship and democracy where both concepts are contested and resisted in their performance. This paper proposes and uses a contrapuntal performance analysis of two contemporary plays surrounding the 2011 General Election with the legal and founding documents defining citizenship in Singapore. The findings of this paper show that contemporary Singaporean theatre fills the role of providing a voice to critique and deconstruct the state's top-down conception of citizenship and a space where civic discourse takes place and is performed for audiences.

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当代新加坡戏剧中的公民空间：举办 2011 年大选

摘要：关于公民空间、民主空间和公共空间政治表现的研究往往集中在表现公民和政治家政治身份的关键场所以及民主进程本身的重要性。本文认为，就新加坡而言，当代戏剧是公民和民主最重要的公共空间，这两个概念在表演中都受到质疑和抵制。本文提出并使用了对围绕 2011 年大选的两部当代戏剧进行对位表演分析，以及定义新加坡公民身份的法律和创始文件。本文的研究结果表明，当代新加坡戏剧扮演着为批评和解构国家提供声音的角色。