Singapore – Playwright Alfian Sa’at has weighed in on the tawdry tragicomedy starring the co-owners, staff and former staff of Night Owl Cinematics (NOC).
On its website, NOC describes itself as “an agency dealing with YouTube, Facebook and Instagram advertising through comedy video production”.
So perhaps the noted playwright, himself no stranger to controversy, might have thought there was some dramatic potential to mine in this social media slugfest starring the estranged co-founders, their staff and ex-staff, and social media “talent”.
Nope.
In a Facebook post on Tuesday (Oct 26), two days after NOC co-owner Sylvia Chan, 33, spilled her guts to blogger Xiaxue, Alfian wrote: “I’m kind of happy that I have very little idea what NOC is, and therefore have very little interest in what some people are calling the “NOC drama””.
Referring to Xiaxue as “Problematic Woman Number #1” and Ms Chan as “supposedly Problematic Woman Number #2”, he added that the interview was as “appealing to me as watching two women paint each other’s nails with diarrhoea”.
Over nearly two hours, Xiaxue takes viewers through roles in NOC, the shareholdings, and quite a bit of dirt on NOC co-founder Ryan Tan, who is also Sylvia Chan’s ex-husband.
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Sylvia told Xiaxue the fight started because Ryan, wanted to wanted her to buy him out of NOC for “millions” which would mean the company could no longer function or even survive.
And that’s when the drama began.
Everybody knows, she said, that Ryan claims he had quit as NOC’s director, but he has not. She showed screenshots of an email from him asking to backdate his resignation to May. Sylvia explained that if NOC had agreed to the backdating, this would have meant that he would not have breached directorial duties because of his own company called Reno King.
Not holding back, Sylvia revealed that except at the start, theirs had never been a happy union.
“We never had a happy marriage because he has had something to do with the girls in NOC,” she said. “That’s why I’ve always kept my silence because I’m going to implicate the whole world.”
He had a lot of “best friends” in the company throughout the years, favouring these female talents on and off camera, and had even told her off in front of others once because she was harsh on a talent.
Several netizens who commented on Mr Sa’at’s video also seemed to be tiring of the
