Colder Than Here (2010)

26 May 2010 – 30 May 2010 @ Drama Centre Black Box, National Library Building

Synopsis

The perfect burial site is hard to find and with nine months to live, a funeral to arrange and a family to sort out all before she goes, Myra’s got to get it sorted and it’ll start with a powerpoint.

Laura Wade’s Colder Than Here is a “beautiful and poignant” play that looks at how a family deals with the inevitability of losing a loved one to cancer while having to address the funny and mundane aspects of living.

Playwright: Laura Wade
Director: Claire Devine

Cast: Susan Tordoff, Julius Foo, Rosemary McGowan, Rebecca Lee 

Stage Manager: Marc Valentine
Asst Stage Managers: Valerie Chian, Aaron Teo 
Production Manager: Rosemary McGowan 

Set Design: June Wong
Lighting Design: Adrian Tan

(Source: Buds Theatre Website)


credits

Laura Wade
Playwright
Rosemary McGowan
Cast, Production Manager
Marc Valentine
Stage Manager
Valerie Chian
Assistant Stage Manager

artefacts

Colder Than Here (2010), Review
Think Inside the Box It's rare to see such an intimate, well-crafted work of theatre staged in Singapore. When we talk about Singapore theatre, we don't usually bring up Buds Theatre Company. Founded in 2007, it remains a small group with pretty modest aspirations: it's neither very commercial, nor very cutting-edge, nor (arguably) very Singaporean: under Artistic Director Claire Devine, the company's leant toward scripts by British playwrights, performed in small black box theatres. Yet there'
Ng Yi-Sheng
Reviewed: 30 May 2010