Scenes from a Repatriation review " 12 ingenious questions about cultural ownership
Royal Court theatre, London Singaporean Joel Tan's play revolves around the fate of an ancient statue, in disparate scenes of thrilling complexity played by a zesty cast Controversies over statues of cultural figureheads have churned in the news in recent years. The repatriation of a fictional 12th-century statue of a Chinese deity, carved in stone, forms the central dispute in Singaporean Joel Tan's play. The Bodhi…