Practice Theatre Ensemble

Flyer for&nbsp;The Soldier and His Virtuous Wife&nbsp;(1996).&nbsp;


The Soldier and His Virtuous Wife (1996), Flyer

On the second day of their marriage, Qiu Hu was taken away by a soldier to serve in the army, leaving a teary Mei Ying.

Ten years later, Li Da Hu who has long lusted after Mei Ying is contemplating to force Mei Ying's father for his daughter's hand as the latter is his debtor. With her intelligence, Mei Ying not only saved herself from a forced marriage, but also made a fool of Li Da Hu. Meanwhile, Qiu Hu having been promoted to a magistrate is on his way home. At this point of the story, an introduction

The Soldier and His Virtuous Wife (1996)

Flyer for&nbsp;The Savage Land&nbsp;(1996).&nbsp;


The Savage Land (1996), Flyer

Postcard for&nbsp;The Savage Land&nbsp;(1996).&nbsp;


The Savage Land (1996), Postcard

The Theatre Practice

Set on the margins of a mythical wilderness, two tormented childhood lovers reunite. What follows is a series of tragedy which rivals those of the Greek's, revealing a complexity of love, hatred, morality and natural law which seems to defy human resolution. Against such adversity, the fateful couple exudes a relentless celebration of passion and courage. This PTE production attempts to release a riveting new contemporary understanding innate in the classic play of prototypical significance.&nbsp;


The Savage Land (1996)

Programme for&nbsp;The Savage Land&nbsp;(1996).&nbsp;


The Savage Land (1996), Programme

Poster for&nbsp;Monkey Business&nbsp;(1996).&nbsp;


Monkey Business (1996), Poster

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Monkey Business (1996)

Miscellaneous for&nbsp;Monkey Business&nbsp;(1996).&nbsp;

This collateral is perforated and taped so that it can be folded into a box.&nbsp;


Monkey Business (1996), Miscellaneous

Flyer for&nbsp;Descendants&nbsp;of the Eunuch Admiral (1995).


Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral (1995), Flyer

In the ancient and tumultuous days, there existed a myth about the "strange beasts" which caused damage to the village. For the sake of his fellow villagers, Asi shouldered the task to eliminate the ninety-nine beasts.

However, the esteem and respect the villagers held for him eventually transformed into fear. They suspected that Asi was the mysterious hundredth beast and began to fear and avoid him, and to the extent of doubting his power. Unaware of the villagers' change of attitude towards him, Asi em

Death of a Hero (1995)

Flyer for&nbsp;Death of a Hero&nbsp;(1995).&nbsp;


Death of a Hero (1995), Flyer

Programme for&nbsp;Death of a Hero&nbsp;(1995).&nbsp;


Death of a Hero (1995), Programme

In a garden there lived three flowers, Lily, Rose and Chrysanthemum among others. The flowers in the garden are very well-sheltered and never had a chance to see the outside world. The colour of these flowers, when exposed under the sun for too long, will slowly fade off.

Hence, every year, the Flower Goddess will arrive at the garden to give the flowers a Colour Shower which add lustrous colours to their petals. Excited about the new colours they will receive, the flowers await the Colour Shower with gr

Colour Shower (1994)

Brochure for&nbsp;Colour Shower&nbsp;(1994).&nbsp;


Colour Shower (1994), Brochure

Flyer for&nbsp;Colour Shower&nbsp;(1994).&nbsp;


Colour Shower (1994), Flyer

Flyer for&nbsp;Where Love Abides&nbsp;(1994).&nbsp;


Where Love Abides (1994), Flyer

Programme for&nbsp;Where Love Abides&nbsp;(1994).&nbsp;


Where Love Abides (1994), Programme

Where Love Abides&nbsp;is a story about ordinary people whose faith and love sustain each other through the changing of time. The background of the story if Guangzhou and Hong Kong, covering the period of the past hundred years. That was the age of domestic strifes and foreign invasion, joys and sorrows, partings and reunions - the vicissitudes of life.

The protagonist of the story is the proprietor of an old-fashioned umbrella house. As the story unfolds, we learn how his grandfather started the factory

Where Love Abides (1994)

Poster for&nbsp;Where Love Abides&nbsp;(1994).&nbsp;


Where Love Abides (1994), Poster

For the Festival, the Practice&nbsp;Theatre Ensemble will be presenting Fishing&nbsp;Eagles.&nbsp;The play, written by Hong Kong playwright&nbsp;Chen Zhi Hua, won the Best Play Award in Hong&nbsp;Kong in 1991.

It grittily describes what happens when a man&nbsp;(a social misfit} is driven to desperation by the&nbsp;loneliness of urban living and poverty.


Fishing Eagles (1994)

Programme for&nbsp;Fishing Eagles&nbsp;(1994).&nbsp;


Fishing Eagles (1994), Programme

Flyer for&nbsp;Fishing Eagles&nbsp;(1994).&nbsp;


Fishing Eagles (1994), Flyer

Flyers for&nbsp;Fishing Eagles&nbsp;(1994).&nbsp;


Fishing Eagles (1994), Flyers

0zero01&nbsp;is a theatrical exploration process conducted deep in the night; from 11pm to 2am, an exploration into the existence of four people.

In&nbsp;0zero01,&nbsp;Pao Kun uses a form that has hardly been explored in Singapore.
This form of theatre draws you into the characters as they unmask.
The actor exposes his innermost core to the audience, who use this experience to look within themselves.

The usual actor-character divide being absent, you are confronted by real people who invite you past

0zero01 (1993)

Programme for&nbsp;0zero01&nbsp;(1993).&nbsp;


0zero01 (1993), Programme

Programme for&nbsp;The Next Generations&nbsp;(1993).&nbsp;


The Next Generations (1993), Programme

Brochure for&nbsp;The Next Generations&nbsp;(1993).&nbsp;


The Next Generations (1993), Brochure

A Hainanese Mother has lived her entire life for only one thing - to perpeture the male line of her husband's family. Relentlessly, in response to a call from her ancestral land. Relentlessly, she stitches patch-quilts to keep her children warm and safe.&nbsp;

Relentlessly, she forces her daughters to make similar sacrifices.&nbsp;

The male line, in the form of a brilliant, loving, caring son, turn out to be one incapable of perpetuation of the lineage. Desperately, he tries to escape from the matriar

The Next Generations (1993)

Student Theatre Exposure Programme (STEP)

Flyer for&nbsp;The Evening Climb&nbsp;(1992).&nbsp;


The Evening Climb (1992), Flyer

Programme for&nbsp;The Evening Climb&nbsp;(1992).&nbsp;


The Evening Climb (1992), Programme

The Evening Climb&nbsp;will be Practice Theatre Ensemble's offering for the Singapore Festival of Arts 92. Led by well-known Singaporean dramatist and 1989 Cultural Medallion recipient, Kuo Pao Kun, Practice Theatre Ensemble's original multilingual production revolves around a group of old people, who, retired and ignored, decide to take a trip together. The play explores old people's desire to retain and express their inquisitiveness and creativeness. Liberated from their daily routine, their trip leads th

The Evening Climb (1992)

The Eagle and the Cat (1990)

The title character, Lao Jiu, the ninth&nbsp;child, is born with the best of everything&nbsp;in a huge, extended family. He is&nbsp;talented, intelligent, good looking,&nbsp;charming, and the focus of all their love&nbsp;and attention. In fact, the darling of all&nbsp;the family — until he decides to forfeit an&nbsp;excellent academic career to devote&nbsp;himself to a dying Puppet Master.&nbsp;

This production, which will be in Chinese&nbsp;and other languages spoken in Singapore,&nbsp;incorporates pupp

Lao Jiu (1990)

Postcard for&nbsp;The Silly Little Girl and the Funny Old Tree&nbsp;(1989).


The Silly Little Girl and the Funny Old Tree (1989), Postcard

Little Girl has no friends because she asks 'silly' question.&nbsp;

Old Tree is 'funny' because its leaves grow near the ground. Who has time for a dumb, old tree, anyway. You know, a tree is just a tree... well, almost.&nbsp;

Little Girl meets Old Tree. They become friends. Bulldozers come to remove the tree. Girl risks her life to save Tree...


The Silly Little Girl and the Funny Old Tree (1989)

Programme for&nbsp;The Silly Little Girl and the Funny Old Tree (1989).


The Silly Little Girl and the Funny Old Tree (1989), Programme

A play in Mandarin presented by Practice Theatre Ensemble for the Singapore Drama Festival 1989.&nbsp;

Devised and created by&nbsp;Lim Jen Erh and the cast.

(Source: The Theatre Practice Postcard)


My Grandfather In The Cellar (1989)

Postcard for&nbsp;My Grandfather In The Cellar&nbsp;(1989).&nbsp;


My Grandfather In The Cellar (1989), Postcard

Can you survive on 10 eggs per week?

That is exactly what Petruk gets for tending his master's ducks. One day, the honest and good-natured Petruk was so hungry that he ate 10 more eggs out of the 50 he was supposed to deliver to his master.

The master, who always mistreats him, was of course very furious. On hearing that two ducks were also missing, he lodged a complaint with the village headman, Pak Lurah, against Petruk.

Then, the sharp-tongued swindler Gareng appeared. Seeing an opportunity, he 

Wek-Wek (1989)

Flyer for&nbsp;Alamak&nbsp;(1989).&nbsp;


Alamak (1989), Flyer

A kampong boy and a city girl met at the teacher's training college. They fell in love and want to get married.

The kampong mother has reservations in the girl's feelings for their kampong while the city mother is violently against her daughter choosing a kampong husband.&nbsp;

But the old servant couple at the girl's house is sympathetic. They help by posing as her parents and accepts the marriage approach from the boy's uncle and auntie. When the girl's parents discover the plot, they dashed to the 

Atap Genting Atap Rembia (1989)

Programme for&nbsp;Alamak&nbsp;(1989).&nbsp;


Alamak (1989), Programme

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Mama Looking For Her Cat (1988)

A 60-minute musical play inviting active audience participation. If you think you have long left your intimate childhood, the Little Prince will remind you that the child in you might still be very much alive.


Day I Met The Prince (1988)

Brochure&nbsp;for&nbsp;Drink the Mercury&nbsp;(1993).&nbsp;


Drink the Mercury (1993), Brochure

Programme for&nbsp;Talkers &amp; Singers (1988).&nbsp;


Talkers & Singers (1988), Programme

Programme for&nbsp;北京相声&nbsp;(1987).&nbsp;


北京相声 (1987), Programme

Flyer for&nbsp;Drink the Mercury&nbsp;(1993).&nbsp;


Drink the Mercury (1993), Flyer

Brochure for&nbsp;Monkey Business&nbsp;(1996).


Monkey Business (1996), Brochure

Programme for&nbsp;Day I Met The Prince&nbsp;(1993).&nbsp;


Day I Met The Prince (1993), Programme

Flyer for&nbsp;Talkers &amp; Singers (1988).&nbsp;


Talkers & Singers (1988), Flyer

Programme for&nbsp;Talkers &amp; Singers&nbsp;(1987).&nbsp;


Practice Theatre Ensemble

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