Annabel Chong

14Mar07

Inspired by 251 RA(18)… 

Grace Quek or better known by her stage name Annabel Chong is a former pornographic actress now living in the United States… she became famous for engaging in 251 sex acts with around 70 men over a ten hour period in January 1995, setting a world record, with the resulting footage being packaged as The World’s Biggest Gang Bang…

She is also the subject of the hit documentary Sex: The Annabel Chong Story…

Annabel was born and raised in Singapore… she attended CHIJ Opera Estate Primary School, Raffles Girls’ School and Hwa Chong Junior College in Singapore, after which she studied law in London under a scholarship… during this time, she was gang raped in a rubbish store under an inner-city housing block.

At the age of 21, she went on to graduate studies in photography, art and feminist studies at the University of Southern California (USC), where she excelled academically… she also began working in pornographic films… she went on to do her graduate work in gender studies at USC, and currently works as a successful web designer… she is also an artist who has exhibited at a group show in New York City…

She presented her work in pornography as an attempt to challenge the settled notions and assumptions of viewers about female sexuality… ss a result, she was not a popular performer among reviewers seeking titillation.

For example, her conception of a gangbang was based on the example of Messalina, a wife of the emperor Claudius. Historically, Messalina has suffered a poor reputation, a fact that some attribute to gender bias… Annabel sought to question the double standard that denies women the ability to exhibit the same sexuality as men, by modelling what a female “stud” would be… skeptics suggest that, in reality, she merely brought art-school pretensions to a depiction of the culturally embedded “slut” stereotype… other critics note that one can hold up historical gender biases for scrutiny without having sex with 70 men on camera…

For her performance, Chong earned a “dubious achievement award” in Esquire magazine…

Click here to find out more…

while i was studying in the UK… there was this programme on Annabel Chong <<< that is when i got to know she existed… it was a rather touching documentary showing how Annabel lived, studied and worked… after seeing one of the posts andy posted >>> 251 RA(18)… i thought of writing this post!!! 

Annabel is one brave lady… true to herself and to everyone elses around her and she is who and what she is… i admire her courage… a lot!!!

251 RA(18) 

 

DATE

05 Apr – 15 Apr 2007

Tue – Fri, 8PM.
Sat – Sun, 3PM & 8PM.

VENUE

Esplanade Theatre Studio

Presented by Toy Factory Productions, 251 is directed by its Associate Artistic Director Loretta Chen and written by Ng Yi-sheng. Leading the provocatively talented cast is well known theatre and tv personality Cynthia Lee Macquarrie as Annabel Chong, 251 also stars Cheryl Miles, Amy Cheng, Lee Weng Kee and Paul Lucas.

Click here for more information on 251 RA(18)…

DURATION

Approx 90 Mins

LANGUAGE

English

Click here to purchase tickets…

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