Boiler Room welcomes bigger batch

Alumnus Al-Matin Yatim will join Centre 42's Boiler Room programme this year, along with Zee Wong, Isaac Lim, Timothy Nga and Christian W. Huber.

'Al-Matin's play investigates existence through a character who grapples with the spiritual reasons for his existence. It is an expansion of a monologue he wrote last year for his final term at the Intercultural Theatre Institute and had hoped to develop into a play.

His lack of experience in scriptwriting - Al-Matin is more used to acting - had him shying away from it for a while. But now that he is part of the Boiler Room, "I am sure I'll be receiving a lot of useful advice for the script to bloom", he says.'

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