HATCH

3 things are certain in life.
Death, taxes and a family chat group on Whatsapp.
What’s your family chat group like?
Ever wondered what other family chat groups are like?

The current climate has provided Hatch an opportunity to explore a new collaborative work using an unconventional but ordinary digital medium: WhatsApp. Over the years, WhatsApp group chats have grown to become a ‘place’ to gather, gossip and share stories much like a digital coffee shop.

Keturunan Ruminah (Ruminah’s Family) is a n

Keturunan Ruminah (2021)

Poster for&nbsp;Keturunan Ruminah&nbsp;(2021).&nbsp;


Keturunan Ruminah (2021), Poster

Habsah has experienced both death and divorce in just a span of a few months.&nbsp;With no husband and no mother for emotional support, she becomes lonely and paranoid. Adi, her son is finding it increasingly difficult to communicate with his mother whilst at the same time trying to keep the family together.

Lanang is a story about relationships – a teenage boy and his divorced mother, a lonely daughter’s relationship with her mother and the matriarch who holds them together.&nbsp; All three of them need

Lanang (2018)

Poster for&nbsp;Lanang&nbsp;(2018).&nbsp;


Lanang (2018), Poster

Poster for&nbsp;Malam&nbsp;Puteri-Puteri Malang (2017).&nbsp;


Malam Puteri-Puteri Malang (2017), Poster

The Malay Peninsular is flooded with stories of tragic women. From Puteri Gunung Ledang to Mahsuri. From those who were oppressed by men, to those who were betrayed by another woman. From the oft-heard, to the obscure. From facts to rumours. And on this night, they will tell their stories the way they want it to be told. So you can decide if they are tragic.

Or not.


Malam Puteri-Puteri Malang (2017)

Hawa (2017), Poster

Siti, a recent convert to Islam, is suddenly tasked with overseeing the funeral arrangements of her close friend and companion. Ahmad, a funeral director, is summoned to perform the last rites. As he learns more about Siti, he begins to question the true nature of the relationship between Siti and her friend. While funeral preparations are being made, a charming stranger – Zaki – arrives unexpectedly. He strikes up a conversation with Siti that gradually reveals his motives and her heartbreak.

Hawa is a 

Hawa (2017)

Lara is a storyteller. A storyteller that can make you laugh. And cry. Today, just like everyday, Lara has a story to tell. But this one is different…

In a village, there lived a mid-wife, Mak Bidan, and her husband, the village circumcision specialist, Tok Mudim. They live happily. Together. With each other. But they are incomplete. They yearn for a child. A child to call their own. Aided in their quest by the mystical Bomoh, the village shaman, will the childless couple finally find that missing ‘piece

Cari Makan (2016)

Poster for&nbsp;Cari Makan (2016).&nbsp;


Cari Makan (2016), Poster

Siti, a recent convert to Islam, is suddenly tasked with overseeing the funeral arrangements of her close friend and companion. Ahmad, a funeral director, is summoned to perform the last rites. As he learns more about Siti, he begins to question the true nature of the relationship between Siti and her friend. While funeral preparations are being made, a charming stranger - Zaki - arrives unexpectedly. He strikes up a conversation with Siti that gradually reveals his motives and her heartbreak.

Hawa is a 

Hawa (2016)

Wild Rice

Programme for Double Bill: Riders Know When It's Gonna Rain &amp; Hawa (2016).


Double Bill: Riders Know When It's Gonna Rain & Hawa (2016), Programme

Riders Know When It's Gonna Rain

Alep, Remy, Nizam and Risha – the only girl in the gang – all love their motorbikes. They remember the day they received their 2B licenses. They can tell bikes apart from the purring of the engines. And they relish the easy give of a kickstarter under the soles of their feet.

Riders Know When It’s Gonna Rain&nbsp;is a coming-of-age story of friendship that blossoms in the little-known, frequently misunderstood&nbsp;mat moto&nbsp;subculture in Singapore. It captures the

Riders Know When It's Gonna Rain & Hawa (2016)

Poster for&nbsp;Hawa&nbsp;(2016).&nbsp;


Hawa (2016), Poster

Super Happy Land is the most exclusive location on Earth. Only a lucky few will get to experience life there – but as everyone knows – you don’t choose Super Happy Land, Super Happy Land chooses you! And so, five very special individuals from the world over have been handpicked to live there. And just like the name suggests, everything there makes the inhabitants Super Happy! They feast like kings –Super Happy Tummy! They are showered with gifts – Super Happy Heart! They are pampered like royalty – Super Ha

Super Happy Land (2015)

Poster for&nbsp;Super Happy Land (2015).&nbsp;


Super Happy Land (2015), Poster

Poster for&nbsp;Hawa&nbsp;(2015).&nbsp;


Hawa (2015), Poster

Siti, a recent convert to Islam is suddenly tasked with overseeing the funeral arrangements of her close friend and companion. However, what was supposed to be a simple task of overseeing her companion’s final journey sets Siti off on a journey of self-discovery when Siti is forced to confront the dominant paradigms that exist in society.


Hawa (2015)

Lockdown (2014), Poster

The play unravels in the setting of a normal counselling room in a school with a teacher waiting for the arrival of three very important guests.&nbsp;On that very special day, the teacher will be confronted with honesty and truth, and in the very fragile moment of a lockdown due to an unfortunate school fire, Ms Nora is stranded and will have to accept the possibility that she is the only individual left that needs to confront certain realities of the teaching fraternitya reality that the students have so w

Lockdown (2014)

Programme for&nbsp;Ring-a-Ring-o'Rosie&nbsp;(2014).


Ring-a-Ring-o'Rosie (2014), Programme

Welcome to “Peaceful Hospital” – a strange hospital with the best doctors and nurses in town.Actually they are vampires who are devoted to healing humans. Together with Gobriel, a low-ranking angel who moonlights as a pharmaceutical sales rep, they are committed to assist humans in finding happiness. The plot thickens as two patients are secretly brought to the hospital. This marks the beginning of a plan to realise the vampires’ long awaited dream.Through its comical fantastic storyline, Ring-a Ring-o’ Ros

Ring-a-Ring-o'Rosie (2014)

Poster for&nbsp;Ring-a-Ring-o'Rosie (2014).&nbsp;


Ring-a-Ring-o'Rosie (2014), Poster

Poster for&nbsp;Di Manakah Kau Sorokkan Yusof Ishak?&nbsp;(2014).&nbsp;


Di Manakah Kau Sorokkan Yusof Ishak? (2014), Poster

We make homes out of people.
4 strangers became friends.
It’s a friendship, a brotherhood.
It’s trust, a pure and honest bond.
They sit, talk and they dance.
They recite and create.
They dream of love.
They dream of fun.
They dream of beauty with
orange suffused sunshine.


Di Manakah Kau Sorokkan Yusof Ishak? (2014)

Pause. Truth. Pause. Truth. Silence. Fear. Do we fear the truth? Three actors are in a room, cloistered away from the world. A world that is judging them and telling them what is right and wrong. Can they survive the judgement? Can they be real?


Lampu Merah (2012)

Ruang (2012), Poster

Ruang is a double-bill

Projek Peringatan Negara
(The National Memory Project)
By Johnny Jon-Jon

The National Memory Project is a national knowledge initiative to capture and preserve the essence of a country. when an officer of&nbsp;the memory corps is tasked with retrieving a memory from a convict awaiting his execution, she learns that memory without its roots is merely imagination.

Lampu Merah
(Red Light)
By Faizal Abdullah

Pause. Truth. Pause. Truth. Silence. Fear. Do we fear the truth? 

Ruang (2012)

The National Memory Project is a national knowledge initiative to capture and preserve the essence of a country. when an officer of&nbsp;the memory corps is tasked with retrieving a memory from a convict awaiting his execution, she learns that memory without its roots is merely imagination.


Projek Peringatan Negara (2012)

Photograph for&nbsp;Ring-a-Ring-o'Rosie&nbsp;(2014)


Ring-a-Ring-o'Rosie (2014), Photograph 6

Cari Makan (2016), Photograph 3

Lampu Merah (2012), Photograph 2

Hawa (2015), Photograph 3

Cari Makan (2016), Photograph 6

Lampu Merah (2012), Photograph 5

Hawa (2015), Photograph 6

Photograph for Super Happy Land&nbsp;(2015)


Super Happy Land (2015), Photograph 1

Photograph for&nbsp;Projek Peringatan Negara&nbsp;(2012)


Projek Peringatan Negara (2012), Photograph 1

Hawa (2015), Photograph 9

Super Happy Land (2015), Photograph 4

Projek Peringatan Negara (2012), Photograph 4

Hawa (2015), Photograph 12

Super Happy Land (2015), Photograph 7

Photograph for&nbsp;Di Manakah Kau Sorokkan Yusof Ishak?&nbsp;(2014)


Di Manakah Kau Sorokkan Yusof Ishak? (2014), Photograph 3

Di Manakah Kau Sorokkan Yusof Ishak? (2014), Photograph 6

Hawa (2017), Photograph 1

Hawa (2016), Photograph 3

Di Manakah Kau Sorokkan Yusof Ishak? (2014), Photograph 9

Hawa (2017), Photograph 4

Hawa (2016), Photograph 6

Photograph for&nbsp;Lockdown&nbsp;(2014)


Lockdown (2014), Photograph 2

Photograph for&nbsp;Malam Puteri-Puteri Malang&nbsp;(2017)


Malam Puteri-Puteri Malang (2017), Photograph 2

Hawa (2016), Photograph 9

Lockdown (2014), Photograph 5

Lanang (2018), Photograph 2

Hawa (2016), Photograph 12

Ring-a-Ring-o'Rosie (2014), Photograph 1

Photograph for&nbsp;Keturunan Ruminah&nbsp;(2021)


Keturunan Ruminah (2021), Photograph 2

Ring-a-Ring-o'Rosie (2014), Photograph 4

Cari Makan (2016), Photograph 1

Hawa (2015), Photograph 1

Cari Makan (2016), Photograph 4

Lampu Merah (2012), Photograph 3

Hawa (2015), Photograph 4

Cari Makan (2016), Photograph 7

Lampu Merah (2012), Photograph 6

Hawa (2015), Photograph 7

Super Happy Land (2015), Photograph 2

Projek Peringatan Negara (2012), Photograph 2

Hawa (2015), Photograph 10

Super Happy Land (2015), Photograph 5

Di Manakah Kau Sorokkan Yusof Ishak? (2014), Photograph 1

Hawa (2015), Photograph 13

Hawa (2016), Photograph 1

Di Manakah Kau Sorokkan Yusof Ishak? (2014), Photograph 4

Di Manakah Kau Sorokkan Yusof Ishak? (2014), Photograph 7

Hawa (2017), Photograph 2

Hawa (2016), Photograph 4

Di Manakah Kau Sorokkan Yusof Ishak? (2014), Photograph 10

Hawa (2017), Photograph 5

Hawa (2016), Photograph 7

Lockdown (2014), Photograph 3

Malam Puteri-Puteri Malang (2017), Photograph 3

Hawa (2016), Photograph 10

Lockdown (2014), Photograph 6

Lanang (2018), Photograph 3

Ring-a-Ring-o'Rosie (2014), Photograph 2

Keturunan Ruminah (2021), Photograph 3

Ring-a-Ring-o'Rosie (2014), Photograph 5

Cari Makan (2016), Photograph 2

Lampu Merah (2012), Photograph 1

Hawa (2015), Photograph 2

Cari Makan (2016), Photograph 5

Lampu Merah (2012), Photograph 4

Hawa (2015), Photograph 5

Cari Makan (2016), Photograph 8

Lampu Merah (2012), Photograph 7

Hawa (2015), Photograph 8

Super Happy Land (2015), Photograph 3

Projek Peringatan Negara (2012), Photograph 3

<p>Hatch is a collective of cross-functional theatre makers based in Singapore and London.<br />
<br />
Our explorations in theatre making has produced original local narratives that resonate with global audiences. We want to empower others to believe that every story waiting to be told has an audience waiting to be discovered.</p>


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