My Thoughts on Hungry as a Play

Issues that the play deals with(non-exhaustive)

1. Suggests that many people inhabits the space between life and death
2. Advocates death as the capacity to face up to the truth of limitations of life
3. Appreciate life only after having experienced death
4. Enjoy pleasure only after suffering the pain of a fall
5. Until one comes to apprehend the true meaning of life and death, one experiences a perpetual hunger
6. Hunger for knowledge & wisdom, truth & certainty, questioning instead of complacency and literal physical hunger
7. Predatory instincts behind the quest for success represented via cannibalism
8. Death brings about new life
9. Farce on Singapore's clean image and censorship guidelines
10. Pays tribute to cultural ritual of offering food to the deceased during the Hungry Ghost's Festival

Main issue for the character Death

• Until one can come to terms with what they want, one will never stop questioning.

This links to all the other characters as I will be the one that they come to after they have decided on what they want. While they are still questioning, I will not interfere. But once they have come to a decision, I will give them the repercussions of their choice, and if they are still sure, I will give them what they want.

Unifying Theme

• All of us will occupy this state of between-ness until we have figured out what exactly we want to know or have achieved what we aspire to have.
  

Reasons why :

1. The play takes place in this state. Death governs this state.
2. All the characters occupying this state are repeatedly questioning themselves and people around them in order to get answers.
3. At the end of the play, they finally comes to a consensus and reconcile themselves in being led away to where they want to go by Death.

- Melvyn