By Isaac Chan (25A01B)

Raffles Players takes the stage. Applause is scattered and thin.

The Raffles Players SYF Arts Presentation on 18 April saw nearly no Rafflesians in the audience, save for some Players members, teachers, and two Raffles Press journalists.

This isn’t, however, because Players is unpopular or bad — in fact, their production of More by Haresh Sharma was positively stellar, winning them their first Distinction in eight years — but because it was scheduled at 10.30 am on a Thursday when the rest of the school is slogging away in class.