The four residents of Centre 42's Playwrights's Professional Development Residency have spent the past six months reading and thinking about the writer's context in society, observing how playwrights offer up perspectives from the hairline cracks of discourse — disrupting doctrine, subverting the historical record, objecting to the status quo. How can writers metabolise these energies for drama? Join us for this artists' sharing as our playwrights present works in progress and new dramatic experiments, brin
Three emerging dramaturgs step into the spotlight to share their learnings from the Dramaturgs in Practice Training Programme 2024. Over the course of 2 practice attachments, dramaturgs-in-training Shona Benson, Shridar Mani and Sonia Kwek have navigated dramaturgical conversations with different kinds of artists, across different genres and at different phases of the creative process. Along the way, they have put both old and new ideas to the test and re-defined what being a dramaturg means to them.&n
Tools is a workshop series by our visiting resident playwright Sean Dunnington for playwrights curious about theatricality - the unique magic of theatre that invites audiences to “believe” what they see on stage is true-to-life, even while knowing it's not real (to an extent). Each session dives into a specific element of this conceptual spell, blending discussion, hands-on activities, performance, and experimentation.These workshops are suitable for playwrights/writers who are engaged with/thinking about c
Sound Plot is Centre 42’s audio plays series, each edition drawing on a certain geographic area in Singapore. This edition, produced in collaboration with the NTU Museum, zooms in on Jurong West and its surrounding area, where the university is located. Two plays were selected through our Open Call, guided by the curatorial prompt "Ulu", and one play was selected from submissions by participants of our Audio Drama Writing Workshop.The audio plays will be launched from 27 January 2025 onwards. Stay tuned for
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Start: 20 January 2025
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Glazed Over
Instead of bridging the straight-gay gap, the play pretty much just points it out and then falls through it anyway.
The programme for Porcelain claims it is "an attempt to bridge the gap between men who publicly claim they are straight and the gay men who know better". In synopsis the play sounds like it might make good on that claim: smart young British-born Chinese, John, has killed his white lover, William Hope, a man who maintained he was straight throughout his affair wi
As If He Hears focuses on the friendship between an AIDS volunteer worker and a man stricken with AIDS. Through each other, they discover life in death, and death in life. The play is a study about the lives of AIDS patients and the relationships they form.(Source: T:>Archive)