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Robert Yeo at his home on Dec 29, 2020. TODAY pic
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SINGAPORE, Jan 10 Writer Robert Yeo’s play on political dissent, “One Year Back Home”, featuring a character who is politically detained after running for elections as an opposition candidate, was so controversial that the authorities refused to grant a licence to stage it.
But that was in 1980, and Yeo was not the least surprised.
“When I showed it to some theatre groups, they said ‘don’t touch it, your career will suffer’,” Yeo recounted in an interview with TODAY last month.
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