It’s a perfectly ordinary day in a perfectly ordinary café in Singapore. Or is it?
Two old friends chat and snap selfies over plates of fried chicken and aglio olio pasta. The three wait-staff bicker and constantly refill cups of coffee while waiting for their shifts to end.
But something strange is brewing both inside and outside of the café. Perhaps it’s finally time to wake up and smell the coffee – if it’s not already too late to do so.
A darkly funny psychological thriller with a conscience, Café asks us all to take a good hard look at ourselves and the way we live in modern-day Singapore. What do we choose to confront... and what goes wilfully ignored? What do we tell ourselves to keep going in a harsh, unkind world? Is ignorance really bliss? And can we all be nicer to wait-staff, please?
IMDA Advisory: 16 (Mature Content and Coarse Language)
Cast: Adib Kosnan, Ants Chua, Darren Guo, Elizabeth Loh, Seong Hui Xuan
Director: Hazel Ho
Playwright: Joel Tan
Artist Mentor: Ivan Heng
Set Designer: Wong Chee Wai
Lighting Designer/Programmer: Chong Wei Siong
Sound Designer: Daniel Wong
Producer: Koh Bee Bee
Production Manager: Melissa Teoh
Technical Manager: David Sagaya
Production Coordinator: Phua Yun Yun
Production Assistant: Angela Ee
Stage Manager: Marilyn Chew
Assistant Stage Manager: Nazirah Hazwani binte Samad
Technicians: Ahmaf Hafriz bin Berkath, Muhammad Azhar bin Azman
Technical Crew: Muhammed Muzzamier, Celestine Wong
(Source: Wild Rice Programme)