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Golden Blood takes us beneath the skyscrapers and shopping malls of Singapore into the seedy realm of violence, drugs and chaos that forms its underbelly. The aspirational world above finds its mirror below, as the orphaned siblings at this story’s core envision a future glittering with Chanel and Miu Miu bling. At the same time they’re reckoning with the ghosts of their own past and the half-remembered rituals they’ve inherited.
Unfolding with all the urgency and pace of a rollercoaster in a lightning storm, Golden Blood will set your pulse racing all the way to its inevitable, unstoppable and ultimately heart-rending climax.
Merlynn Tong is a writer and actor. Playwriting credits include Legends (of the Golden Arches) (Performing Lines WA), which she also co-directed and will stage at Melbourne Theatre Company in 2025, Congratulations, Get Rich! (La Boite Theatre/Sydney Theatre Company/Singapore Repertory Theatre), Antigone (adaptation, Queensland Theatre/Mercury Theatre UK) and Blue Bones (Playlab Productions). Stage performances include The Poison of Polygamy (La Boite Theatre/Sydney Theatre Company) and White Pearl (Sydney Theatre Company/National Theatre of Parramatta). Screen performances include Top of the Lake: China Girl (See Saw Films) and In Our Blood (Hoodlum Productions). Her one-woman-show Blue Bones won six Matilda Awards including The Lord Mayor Award for Best New Australian Work, Best Mainstage Production and Best Female Actor in a Leading Role. Golden Blood was shortlisted for a Victorian Premier Literary Award, NSW Premier's Literary Award, and Sydney Theatre Award (Best New Australian Work). She was the 2020 Resident Writer of Melbourne Theatre Company.
