The Ordinary and The Unspectacular (2018)

16 August 2018 – 19 August 2018 @ Practice Space, The Theatre Practice

Synopsis

After each breath

Before the next

Time streams

Into the moments,

Of timelessness

The Ordinary and The Unspectacular is a contemplation of the minutiae of everyday life. When each snapshot in time is magnified, the everyday becomes estranged and the simplicity of each movement takes on new depth and meaning. Devised alongside a distinguished veteran cast of Singapore theatre practitioners, Director Okorn-Kuo Jing Hong places the aging body front and centre, magnifying, examining and celebrating it for the journey it has travelled so far.

Creative Team

Director: Okorn-Kuo Jing Hong
Lighting Designer: Zhang Yang
Costume Designer: Ha Da 

Production Team

Producer: Cecilia Chow 
Technical Director: Lee Bee Bee
Production Stage Manager & Sound Operator: Eng Sze Kee
Lighting Operator: Zhang Yang 
Costume Mistress: Children's Party Dress Co
Stage Crew: Chia Run Jin (RJ), Tan Yi Kai 

Cast

CHIA
Julius Foo
Goh Lay Kuan
Jalyn Han
Lim Chiong Ngian
Lok Meng Chue
Wong May Lan 

(Source: Synopsis from The Theatre Practice Website and Credits from The Theatre Practice Programme)


credits

Zhang Yang
Lighting Designer, Lighting Operator
Ha Da
Costume Designer
Cecilia Chow
Producer
Lee Bee Bee
Technical Director
Eng Sze Kee
Production Stage Manager, Sound Operator
Chia Run Jin
Stage Crew
Tan Yi Kai
Stage Crew

artefacts

The Ordinary and The Unspectacular (2018), Review
The Ordinary and the Unspectacular The Theatre Practice’s The Ordinary and The Unspectacular is a brave piece that pushes its audience and its actors by stretching the definitions of storytelling. Comprising a series of seemingly disparate vignettes, I found myself referencing the piece in ‘chapters’, with each sequence centred on a particular character and their interactions with an element of the everyday – a bench, a box, a ladle… the list goes on. Probably most impressive is the actors’
Liana Gurung
Reviewed: 16 August 2018