{"product_id":"those-who-cant-teach","title":"Those Who Can't, Teach","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThose Who Can’t, Teach\u003c\/i\u003e turns the spotlight on\nthe madcap lives of teachers and students in a typical secondary school in\nSingapore. As the teachers struggle daily to nurture and groom, the students\nprefer to hang out and “chillax”. With upskirting and Facebooking, griping and politicking,\nschool takes on a whole new meaning as the colourful characters struggle to\nprove that those who can, teach. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWritten by Singapore’s most prolific playwright Haresh\nSharma, \u003ci\u003eThose Who Can’t, Teach\u003c\/i\u003e was first staged by The\nNecessary Stage in 1990 to critical acclaim. Twenty years later, Sharma\nrevisits this classic to revitalise it for the Singapore Arts Festival 2010,\ntransforming it into a powerful portrayal of the pressures and challenges facing\nteachers (and students) in schools in the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Playwright\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHaresh Sharma\u003c\/b\u003e is Resident Playwright of The\nNecessary Stage and co-Artistic Director of the annual M1 Singapore Fringe\nFestival. To date, he has written about 100 plays. One of these, \u003ci\u003eOff\nCentre\u003c\/i\u003e, was selected by the Ministry of Education as a Literature text for\n‘N’ and ‘O’ Levels, and republished by The Necessary Stage in 2006. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn\n2008, \u003ci\u003eInterlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 6\u003c\/i\u003e, was\npublished by Ethos Books. Written by Prof David Birch and edited by A\/P Kirpal\nSingh, it presents an extensive investigation of Haresh’s work over the past 20\nyears. A collection of Haresh’s plays was also translated into Mandarin and\npublished as \u0026lt;\u0026lt;\u003cspan lang=\"ZH-CN\" style=\"font-family:等线;mso-ascii-font-family:\nCalibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;\nmso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin\"\u003e哈里斯\u003c\/span\u003e·\u003cspan lang=\"ZH-CN\" style=\"font-family:等线;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:\nminor-latin;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;\nmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin\"\u003e沙玛剧作选\u003c\/span\u003e\u0026gt;\u0026gt; by Global Publishing. In\n2010, Epigram Books published \u003ci\u003eThose Who Can’t, Teach\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHaresh was awarded Best Original Script for \u003ci\u003eFundamentally\nHappy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGood People\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGemuk Girls\u003c\/i\u003e during\nthe 2007, 2008 and 2009 Life! Theatre Awards respectively. In 2010, the\nabovementioned plays were published by The Necessary Stage in the \u003ci\u003eTrilogy \u003c\/i\u003ecollection.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eMost recently, two collections of short plays by Haresh, \u003ci\u003eShorts 1\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShorts\n2\u003c\/i\u003e, were published as well. In 2011, Haresh became the first non-American to\nbe awarded the prestigious Goldberg Master Playwright by New York University’s\nTisch School of the Arts. In 2014, Haresh was awarded the prestigious S.E.A.\nWrite Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"APD (S) PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44907708776655,"sku":"9789810855109","price":18.42,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_42888fab-fcbc-48f9-a3e4-95df04514a79.webp?v=1773303705","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/those-who-cant-teach","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}