Story by Juliette Yu-ming Lizeray
Boarding a ferry boat to Pulau Ubin on a quiet Wednesday during the seventh Lunar month, Prudence Roberts may seem like a regular tourist setting off to the island for a bike adventure. But the 32 year-old is nothing like what you’d expect.
A lawyer by training and writer by passion, this svelte and smiley Australian from Sydney is the first ang moh to join Singapore’s oldest Teochew opera troupe: Lao Sai Tao Yuan. On that ordinary Wednesday – just another day for her – she performs at the island's Fo Shan Teng Da Bo Gong temple.