Writing Her Story

Amid a growing appetite for women’s stories, director, producer and screenwriter Joanna Bowers and lawyer, poet and playwright Amanda Chong discuss centring women’s experiences, empowering women’s voices and the importance of diversity behind the scenes as well as on stage and screen

By Rachel Duffell

When Barbie was released in cinemas in July last year, it broke records, going on to become the largest global opening for a female-directed movie and the highest-grossing film of 2023 worldwide. Its enthusiastic reception wasn’t unexpected; it was in line with an increasing interest in women’s stories. While Barbie was ringing in the box office receipts worldwide, a parallel cultural moment was taking place in the Lion City. Amanda Chong’s play Psychobitch, telling the story of a journalist whose tech CEO fiancé asks her to explain to him the four times she has cried in public, which she goes on to do through an infographic-filled presentation charting her menstrual cycle, took to the stage in Singapore in August. In its opening weekend, it sold out a three-week run, added…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024

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