Gateway Theatre restages ‘conversation starter’ play on youth mental health, I And You

Actors Evangel Wong and Zulfiqar Izzudin during a rehearsal for the play I And You, which tackles issues around human connection and youth mental health.

Wong, a 21-year-old theatre studies undergraduate at the National University of Singapore, relates to Caroline’s state of mind. She says that general stress about school work, anxiety and depression, compounded by growing up in the internet age, are not just Covid-19 problems. “She does her work here, she has fun here, sleeps here, food gets delivered here – all she has to do is just call out for her mum.”It is this epidemic of youth isolation and mental health issues that led director Samantha Scott-Blackhall to stage this play in 2022 and restage it. She says: “It concerned me that there were so many young people who were happy to stay at home and not have to go out, and I felt that it was necessary to talk about the dangers of that.

Most memorably for Scott-Blackhall, one of her friends who had taken her teenage daughter to the show told the director: “She said to me, ‘Thanks for giving me a conversation starter.’ It allowed parents to talk about what they saw and ask if their child went through the same thing.” Asked what might have moved these men, Zulfiqar says it is the realisation of “how they might have someone in their lives reaching out to them but they are just pushing that person away”.

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