Tree / House (2008)

7 August 2008 – 9 August 2008 @ Drama Centre Black Box, National Library Building

Synopsis

Where do your memories live?

Tree/House is a two-part performance about how we remember in a city of forgetting. First a tree, then a house, providing the starting points for an exercise in modern storytelling, which weaves objects, images and anecdotes together in a provocative and poignant remembrance of things present.

Tree Duet explores our continuing entanglement with trees by presenting a theatrical meditation on the things they make us think and do. An eco-performance minus the moralizing, spell#7's Paul Rae and Kaylene Tan, reinvent tree-lore for the 21st century.

House of Memory is a quirky performance lecture by visual artist and film-maker Ho Tzu Nyen. Beginning with the destruction of his childhood home, Tzu Nyen plunders the history of twentieth century cinema, from the arthouse to the action-packed, in search of his memories - with increasingly explosive results.

Cast: Ho Tzu Nyen, Kaylene Tan, Paul Rae
Playwrights/Directors: Paul Rae, Ho Tzu Nyen

Lighting Design: Kala Raman
Video Editor: Fran Borgia

Producer: Tony Trickett
Production Manager: Purpink Chung
Production Stage Manager: Alvin Lim
Production Coordinator: Athena Tan

(Source: spell#7 Programme)


credits

Paul Rae
Cast, Playwright, Director
Ho Tzu Nyen
Cast, Playwright, Director
Kala Raman
Lighting Designer
Fran Borgia
Video Editor
Purpink Chung
Production Manager
Alvin Lim
Production Stage Manager

artefacts

Tree / House (2008), Programme
Programme for Tree / House (2008).
spell#7, Ho Tzu Nyen, Wild Rice
Recorded: 7 August 2008
OCBC Singapore Theatre Festival (2008), Programme
Programme for OCBC Singapore Theatre Festival (2008).
OCBC Singapore Theatre Festival (2008), Programme
Recorded: 6 August 2008