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SINGAPORE: Last week, Daniel Jenkins was in Mumbai wrapping up his scenes for a new movie.
Gasp! Has the 40-year-old theatre actor decided to hang up his thespian shoes in Singapore for an alternative career as Bollywood's next Shahrukh Khan? Well, not exactly.
Jenkins was there shooting The Genius of Beauty, a Singapore-India co-production.
It's a comedy where he plays a certain Detective Baggins "on the trail of a rogue plastic surgeon who has been terrorising women throughout the world". Meaning Singapore, Indonesia and India.
"We do not dance around trees or burst into song-and-dance routines at every opportunity," clarified Jenkins in a previous email to Today.
Well, after his Indian adventure as a sleuth, Jenkins is back to playing a caveman in Singapore.
Singapore Repertory Theatre is re-staging Defending the Caveman, American actor Rob Becker's one-man Broadway comedy routine about men's relationships with women. Directed by Tracie Pang, it was first staged in March with Jenkins as sole Flintstone.
With Action Theatre recently staging Manhood, does Jenkins foresee a trend in "dude plays" that appeal to men who usually get dragged to the theatre by their girlfriends?
"I know for a fact that there have been reluctant partners who have literally been dragged into the theatre only to leave crying with laughter and having had an excellent evening," said Jenkins.
So how much of a caveman then is he?
"I'm a caring sharing, new age, sensitive, metrosexual type of guy," he said.
"So if that's the last question, I'm off to play football, drink beer, sit with my mates in silence, having left my wet towel on the bed and watch TV. Me and the TV are one!"
Defending the Caveman runs from Sept 25 to Oct 10, 8pm, DBS Arts Centre - Home of SRT. With 3pm weekend matinees. Tickets at $35 and $40 from Sistic.
- TODAY/yb
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