While notable Singapore plays by equally noted Singaporean playwrights – including Kuo Pao Kun, Tan Tarn How, Stella Kon and Ovidia Yu – have been published in the past, one thing that is possibly missing is an official canonical list of Singapore’s English-language plays. Robert Yeo, who teaches Creative Writing at SMU, shared his views on how, despite the abundance of plays, the creation of such a canon is nowhere to be seen. He shared that every country, after a period of gestation, needs its classics. Singapore is relatively young, yet it tends to forget aspects of its past. Creating a national canon of plays takes the guesswork out of remembering. While this could seem like an elitist enterprise, it is an essential act of critical evaluation, of trying to ask what makes an evolving tradition of writing, what its features are, who the major players are and, perhaps more importantly, where do we go from here?