now falls on the Media Development Authority - with objections to material in 36 of its 67 pages, including: that Singapore is a nation without soul; that the play promotes sex and communism; that the play ridicules past committees as inefficient; that politicians were more interested in winning votes than delivering on promises. In October 1992, Tan sent in a letter of appeal to the licensing unit and the play was passed clean, a beneficiary of the revised guidelines proposed by the Censorship Review Committee. First staged by TheatreWorks from January to February 1993, directed by Ong Keng Sen and starring actors Lut Ali, Lim Kay Tong and Jacintha Abisheganaden. Reviewing the play for The Straits Times, theatre critic Hannah Pandian called it "a watershed in Singapore theatre: it is arguably the first English play to present the country critically and artistically, without hiding behind coy allegory". The Lady of Soul and Her Ultimate 'S' Machine will be restaged in 2015 as part of the Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay' celebrations of Singapore's Golden Jubilee. Home (1993) Staged by Theatreworks in 1990. Re-staged by Nanyang Technological University Playhouse. Undercover (1994) Tan Tarn How was joint winner of the National Book Development Council Drama Award in 1996 for this play. Six of the Best (1996) Staged by Theatreworks. The First Emperor's Last Days (1998) This play was staged for the Singapore Arts Festival by TheatreWorks. Later, it was staged for the Asian Performing Arts Festival in Hong Kong by Chung Ying Theatre. The play won the Hong Kong Best Ten Productions of The Year Award. Machine (2002) Machine was staged in Singapore at The Black Box, Fort Canning by Theatreworks. Tan won Best Script in Singapore’s premier theatre award, The 3rd DBS Life! Theatre Awards, for Machine in 2003. Confessions of 300 Unmarried Men (2006) Fear of Writing (2011) Staged by Theatreworks, with Ong Keng Sen as Director and an all-female cast. In 2015, Fear of Writing was selected by The Business Times as one of the "finest plays in 50 years" alongside productions by Goh Poh Seng, Michael Chiang and Alfian Sa'at and others. Publications Fear of Writing (Epigram Books, 2012) Six Plays (Epigram Books, 2011) Personality + Power = Changes Unlikely (Tan Tarn How, Arun Mahizhnan, eds., Singapore Perspectives 2004: At the Dawn of a New Era, Marshall Cavendish Academic for IPS, 2004) The Lady of Soul and