The Singapore Youth Festival, or SYF, has been renamed the Singapore Youth Celebrations.
This name change, and the restructuring of the judging criteria for its inter-school performing arts presentations, is aimed at removing the element of competition and hence reducing the stress of participants.
But is competition a bad thing to begin with? And in the absence of a level playing field, how should drama presentations be assessed?
938LIVE's Shireen Abdullah speaks with Rosemary McGowan, a theatre practitioner who works with youth in schools.
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