Theatre review: A Thousand Stitches uses a painting to re-create rote memory of WWII
Xuan Ong as a conservator intern in A Thousand Stitches PHOTO: CRISPIAN CHAN
A Thousand Stitches
Kaylene Tan and Alan Oei
Drama Centre Black Box
May 23, 8pm
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