Lotus Root Support Group

"Empowering Tale of Femininity, Illness and Identity"

"Impeccable comedic timing"

- City Nomads

Miriam and Shannen are two broke theatre-makers with many things in common: A love of anime? Check. Went to the same primary school, secondary school AND junior college? Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome? Double check.

With ovaries that have more holes in them than swiss cheese, insurance companies rejecting them for being “too high risk”, and existential crises about womanhood, Miriam and Shannen are banding together to deal with it the only way they know how: Making theatre about it.

But what if the differences they face through this are irreconcilable? What if their cyst-erhood is not as strong as they initially thought? And what does a Potato Rap have to do with all of this?

Candidly discussing the struggles of living with under-researched and misunderstood chronic illness, Lotus Root Support Group affirms the importance of human connections in times of struggle, as rocky and tumultuous as they may be. Because we can’t make it through life alone.
This will be an updated and reimagined version of the play from 2021, which was described by City Nomads as "Educational, hilarious, and gut-wrenchingly sincere."

This iteration of Lotus Root Support Group was first previewed at Let's Go Just Do Don't Scared Scratch Night in June 2024.

28 August - 1 September 2024

42 Waterloo Street Black Box

Created, Devised and Performed by Miriam Cheong and Shannen Tan

Produced by Adeeb Fazah and Miriam Cheong

Performance Dramaturgy by Sonia Kwek

Sound Design by Mark Benedict Cheong

Stage Manager: Genevieve Tan

Collateral Design by Mark Benedict Cheong

Host or Publisher Lotus Root Support Group