Singapore Repertory Theatre

The friendship of three men is turned upside down when one of them buys an expensive piece of modern art – a white canvas crossed by barely visible lines. Serge buys the painting but Marc hates it, and Yvan is caught in the middle between his two friends.&nbsp;This contemporary comedy about friendship, creativity and the complexities of human relationships has become one of the most successful plays ever written. Featuring&nbsp;Gerald Chew,&nbsp;Lim Yu-Beng&nbsp;and&nbsp;Remesh Panicker.&nbsp;

Yasmina Re

ART (2016)

Cast

Wild Rice

In a city that’s preparing to market itself as a world-class resort spa, Dr. Thomas Chee&nbsp;discovers that the water supply is riddled with bacteria. He resolves to go public with the information. It’s a decision that pits him against his entire community. Overnight, he finds himself drowning in a storm of protests from the government, media, businesses, and even his family. Suddenly, Dr. Chee is the enemy of the people – the man who insists on telling truths that no one wants to hear.

One of the world

Public Enemy (2015)

Antonio - The Merchant of Venice - is sad, but his friends cannot discover why. All the ships in which his money is invested are at sea, but he claims this is not what is worrying him - he has many ships, which makes good business sense. His best friend, Bassanio, asks Antonio to lend him even more money than he already owes him, to help him win the hand of a rich and beautiful heiress, Portia. Antonio has not got any spare cash, but agrees to borrow money to help him.&nbsp;

Portia complains about the re

The Merchant of Venice (2014)

The Finger Players

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Watch This Space: The Last Chief Minister of Singapore (2013)

Sight Lines Productions

Everything but the Brain tells the story of Elaine, a Physics teacher who hatches a plan to turn back time and save her stroke-afflicted father from further deterioration. Along the way, she is egged on by a chorus of three bears, occasionally distracted by a dashing young surgeon and haunted by a particularly memorable train ride to Malacca…

Don’t miss this poignant, comic play, which premiered in 2005 to critical acclaim. After two sold-out runs, it went on to win “Best Original Script” and “Best Actor

Everything But The Brain (2013)

Othello opens on a street in Venice, where lago, an ensign in the Venetian army, is arguing with Roderigo, who paid lago to help him win the beautiful Desdemona's hand in marriage. Rumour has it that Desdemona has secretly married Othello, lago's general, instead. Roderigo is furios. lago confides in him that he, too, hates Othello, because the general promoted Michael Cassio to the position of lieutenant instead of lago himself. Together, the two men decide to reveal the marriage between Othello and Desdem

Othello (2013)

Teater Ekamatra

One hostage. One perpetrator. Two victims.

Benjamin Lik drives a BMW 7 series coupe, lives in a 3-floored bungalow in Upper Thomson, has a private shower in his office.

Muhammad Ashraf drives a yellow Hyundai Sonata, lives in a maisonette that is about to be repossessed, has two estranged daughters and an absent son.

Two men who live in completely different worlds, cross paths only when Ashraf storms Benjamin's office on afternoon. Barricading the door, he demands a job in Benjamin's company. With 

Not Counted (2012)

HuM Theatre

Kanjooswamy is a diehard skinflint who makes Scrooge look like a reckless philanthropist. His wealth is his lifeblood and getting him to part with even a fragment of it is like pulling teeth from the mouth of an unsedated tiger. The community has aptly christened him The Kanjoos meaning The Miser.

Completely blinded by greed, he is prepared to barter his children's happiness for personal benefit. Chari, his son, is hopelessly in love with Tien Tien and his daughter Priya can't wait to lose her virginity 

The Kanjoos (2012)

"MY ONLY LOVE SPRUNG FROM MY ONLY HATE!" - Juliet, Act 1 Scene 5

Fall in love again with ROMEO &amp; JULIET, the world's greatest love story, as it is brought to life in a bold, exuberant and sensual production by W!LD RICE.&nbsp;

In a city ripped apart by the hatred between their feuding families, two young people fall desperately in love. Defying their parents’ wishes and throwing all caution to the wind, they marry in secret, risking everything to be together

Ivan Heng, renowned for his innovati

Romeo & Juliet (2012)

T:>Works (TheatreWorks)

Andrew Harvey Lee is seemingly perfect: educated, married, hardworking, a corporate high-flyer. He wants to live well like other Singaporeans do. But he eats and purges himself too much.

A prize-winning entry of the 24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2011 (Youth Category),&nbsp;Saying Grace&nbsp;traces the life of an accountant battling an eating disorder. Follow Andrew’s fall from grace as he negotiates his body, career, family and sanity through a deep plunge past rock bottom. A tussle of mind over matter

Saying Grace (2012)

Director

ABVTRI

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DNR (2011)

"This puppet is going to be something special...the best I've ever created", thought Gepetto. And thus begins the magical journey of Pinocchio as he is brought to life with the help of the Blue Fairy.

Singapore Repertory Theatre's Stage Two and MediaCorp VizPro International, proudly present a musical adaptation of one of the most popular children's stories, which will be given an Asian twist. With an award-winning creative team from Asia, Australia and the UK, audiences will be in for a visual and theat

Pinocchio The Musical (2010)

Ayub Khan-Din's&nbsp;Rafta Rafta&nbsp;is a comedy in English which centers around a newly-wed couple and their meddlesome families.

Atul Dutt and his new bride, Lisa Lim, are short of cash and have to live with the Dutts, a stereotypical Indian family headed by a whisky loving, bhangra dancing, pompous ass of a father (Eeshwar) and a sarcastic matriarch of a mother (Lopa). Not that this combination is rich enough to drive them insane, the beleaguered couple have to deal with the incessant intrusions of L

Rafta, Rafta... (2010)

Zebra Crossing

What the Butler Saw (2009)

Blank Space Theatre

Das Experiment: Black Box (2008)

Swordfish attack Singapura, terrorising its citizens. A boy saves the kingdom by lining the beach with banana stems. But the Sultan, at his ministers’ advice, has the boy executed.

A generation later, the Sultan’s successor, his son, breaks the covenant between subject and ruler when he has his concubine publicly executed on trumped-up charges, bringing untold shame to her family. Sure enough, an armada of ships from the Majapahit Empire soon appears on the horizon, and threatens Singapura’s supremacy.


The Swordfish, then The Concubine (2008)

Ho Tzu Nyen

Not one, but three productions about Shakespeare's King Lear, questioning the production of Lear itself. Singaporean visual artist and film-maker Ho Tzu Nyen turns theatre maker in this intriguing trilogy which has as its starting point&nbsp;three well-known critical texts on&nbsp;Lear by Marvin Rosenberg, Jonathan Goldberg and Wilson Knight. Giving these&nbsp;tracts flesh and blood incarnations through&nbsp;dramatizations of would-be scenarios of an audition, a rehearsal and a&nbsp;post-show discussion, th

The King Lear Project: A Trilogy (2008)

The Theatre Practice

Tosca,&nbsp;the ever-popular opera classic, returns as a bold collaborative re-invention in The Theatre Practice's 2007 Poor Theatre Series.

Art, love and religion meet onstage in this enduring tragedy of power and passion!&nbsp;


The Tosca Project (2007)

Performer

Desperately seeking inspiration for his new book, Charles Koh, a novelist, invites the flamboyant Madame Arcati to perform a séance in his Bukit Timah bungalow.

But he gets much more than he bargains for when the mischievous ghost of his first wife Elvira materialises and proceeds to wreak havoc on his relationship with his current wife, Ruth.

Together with their highly strung maid Edith and their friends Dr. &amp; Mrs. Quek, the Kohs face the challenge of taming Elvira’s blithe spirit in a comedy tha

Blithe Spirit (2007)

ACTION Theatre

Everything But The Brain was first staged on 27 January 2005 by ACTION Theatre. The Premiere production was directed by Krishen Jit. The original cast members were Gerald Chew, Pamela Oei, Koh Chieng Mun, Brendon Fernandez, Chermaine Ang and Filomar Tariao.


Everything But The Brain (2007)

It is 1942, World War II. Bombs are raining down from the sky and the lights are going out all over the city. But for Sir, the ageing actor-manager of a struggling Skaespearean theatre group, the show must go on. Despite suffering from burn out and sheer exhaustion, he is adamant on staging the 227th performance of King Lear.

As Sir's rollercoaster emotions reduce him from a haughty thespian to a quivering wreck, it is up to loyal dresser Norman to hold it all together. Devoted for the past 16 years to t

The Dresser (2006)

Dusk in Singapore, teatime in Britain, breakfast in Brazil. Nine people from three continents perform in one single production. A quayside building in Newcastle Gateshead, a skyscraper in Sao Paulo, and a riverside theatre in Singapore merge to become a fourth imaginary space. Three audiences, one in each city, watch the performance simultaneously. The man sleeping in Singapore – why is the English woman watching so closely? When he leaves his flat, she follows him through the streets of Newcastle to his re

Play On Earth (2006)

Toy Factory Productions Limited

National Service is an integral part of every Singaporean male's journey towards manhood. In&nbsp;Army Daze,&nbsp;we salute Singaporean boys as they don their uniforms and begin their march to maturity. We also celebrate how these sons of diverse backgrounds and circumstances come under one camp and eventually become brothers; blurring the boundaries of race, age and social status.&nbsp;

Michael Chiang's play is about the misadventures of five young men as they go through their Basic Military Training. T

Army Daze (2006)

Arts House Limited

Have you ever wondered what would happen if Ebenezer Scrooge sang show tunes? If Tiny Tim were a character from Annie? If Jacob Marley was a woman? Well, maybe you haven’t!

If you HAVE wondered, the answer is simple. You’ll get the zaniest, most hilarious holiday show ever created. Kathy Feininger’s divinely inspired A BROADWAY CHRISTMAS CAROL! A delicious cross between the classic Dickens take and uproarious song parodies of your favourite Broadway tunes, this irreverent and boisterous alternative to tr

A Broadway Christmas Carol (2005)

Irwin Shaw

Dear audience,

In 2003, an unprecedented gathering of local theatre professionals&nbsp;came together to do staged readings of Lysistrata Lah! - a new&nbsp;adaptation of Aristophanes’ war-of-the-sexes comedy — at the&nbsp;YMS Auditorium (24 March) and the Singapore Tyler Print&nbsp;Institute (25-26 March). The readings were performed as part of an&nbsp;international theatrical response to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. It was&nbsp;also a unique opportunity for Singapore’s theatre scene to come&nbsp;together a

Bury the Dead (2005)

She’s the richest woman in the world. She’s returning to her hometown. And she’s got revenge and murder on her mind.

Claire Zachanassian (nee Li Kwan Yin) is as fabulous as she is rich. And the hometown she is returning to is Saitang – a poor, desolate town that has definitely seen better days.

Heralded by the honest, upright citizens of Saitang as the town’s saviour, Claire makes her dramatic entrance – with an entourage of bodyguards, eunuchs, a butler, a caged panther, her 7th husband, millions and

The Visit of the Tai Tai (2004)

Escape Theatre Limited

The play, by English playwright Chris Chibnall, is about two couples - Don and Edie, who have been together for 30 years, and the younger Tony and Ruth, who resist the idea that two people can be together for life.&nbsp;


Kiss Me Like You Mean It (2004)

Newly-divorced Oscar Madison, a beer-guzzling, poker-playing sports reporter with limited house-keeping skills, invites his friend Felix Ungar to stay. There's only one hitch: Felix is a compulsively tidy hypochondriac, whose neurotic ways have found free reign after his wife unexpected throws him out.


The Odd Couple (2004)

Hypnotically moody and sexy. A relationship between a man and a woman. One scene, one space, one story, and five different outcomes. Growing apart and coming back again. It is not a love story. It is a luminous story about one man’s search for balance. We invite you to enter the Black Box, where a melding of Ayurvedic senses await you. Swathed in George Chua’s hypnotic soundscape and Paul Rae and Kaylene Tan’s sensuous text, delicately textured by Ben Slater’s film,&nbsp;Balance&nbsp;is a treat to rebalance

Balance (2003)

Steven told his Dad he did not want to be "a fully paid-up member of the ruling class". That's how it all started. Now his Dad and his Mum are talking, discussing and debating... What are you supposed to do when your teenage son told you, "It's not ruling V.S. ruled. You can opt-out."?


Whatever That Is (2002)

A couple is dining out at an exclusive restaurant. They're celebrating a special event but frankly, he would rather just eat and go home. But she wants to talk and does not give up till they are both talking as they've never done before in all their time together. "Squeeze the lemon. Breathe!", says the woman. She also wants to know how happy the man is on a scale of 1 to 10. He rates it and asks her to massage his jaws.


Dinner For Two (2002)

Chay Yew's&nbsp;The Morning People&nbsp;is a bold adaptation of Anton Chekhov's finest masterpiece&nbsp;The Cherry Orchard.

The year is 1934, a time of great social, political, civil and economic change in China's history. The marching footsteps of the communist army is approaching in the distance as China moves towards a revolutionary period.&nbsp;

The cherry orchard is located this time in the mountainous province of Shaanxi, in northern China.&nbsp;

The plot hinges on the tragic loss of a family

The Morning People (2002)

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Two beautiful losers scour the city for the relics of faith. As they bear witness to the heaven held in these everyday things, they deliver up lessons on impotence, the afterlife and other modern headaches. Not only do they share their prophecies and revelations with us, but also their take-outs and tidbits. During one of these lessons something bad happens and all hell is let loose. We can't say anymore about that now...


Beautiful Losers (2002)

The Necessary Stage

It is seven days after Dr Sun Yat Sen’s death.&nbsp;His second wife, Chen Cui Fen, sits, waiting for&nbsp;his ‘return’. She clings on to a watch which&nbsp;he left her in his will. She soon realises that&nbsp;time is not what it seems to be, that an image&nbsp;can be an imitation...

What happens when a woman loves too much? What happens when a man is too great? What happens beyond revolution?&nbsp;

This potent collaboration between The&nbsp;Necessary Stage and The Theatre Practice is&nbsp;inspired by 

One Hundred Years in Waiting (2001)

A nation goes 'Soul' searching to spice up the lives of its people. Enter Madame Soul, who decided to do her bit for the nation and offers her solution - 'arts and tarts'.&nbsp;


The Lady of Soul and Her Ultimate 'S' Machine (2001)

Luna-id

Joined at the Head (2001)

Fiction Farm

Closer (2000)

Viva Viagra! was first staged in The Room Upstairs at 42 Waterloo Street in November 1999. It was performed as part of The First 42 Theatre Festival where 42 new works and new talents were presented over 42 days.

This first production of the play was directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham and featured the following cast members: Sandy Phillips, Loke Loo Pin, Norlina, Gerald Chew, Juwanda Hassim and Darius Tan. This new production of the play features additional scenes and characters not seen in the first stagin

Viva Viagra! (1999)

Dramaplus Arts

A tragic love story set amidst a backdrop of&nbsp;witch-hunting and a community turning on itself,&nbsp;The Crucible was written as an indictment of&nbsp;McCarthyism yet has had reverberations in East&nbsp;Java recently.

The play questions good and evil; righteousness; honour and love; and parochialism. My&nbsp;choice to “asianise” this production is both&nbsp;practical and conceptual.

Practical because I wanted to use the many&nbsp;talented and accomplished local actors, and&nbsp;conceptual because t

The Crucible (1999)

In 1995, US authorities discovered 72 garment workers - illegal immigrants - in an apartment complex ringed with barbed wire and spiked fences. Lured by the promise of a better life, they had left their homes and villages for America, "the golden mountain". But the America they found was not the promised land of their dreams - more the stuff of their nightmares.

This is the story of the American dream gone horribly&nbsp;wrong - and a few courageous people who helped set things right.


Fabric (1999)

Bergman's Nora is not merely a flighty, chirpy songbird who inhibits Helmer's cage, although she does play that role, but "a woman of under terrible stress" filled with a sense of being unsatisfied...

As the play progress, Nora's illusions, and her ability to live in them, come under more and more pressure, until in the penultimate scene, her husband destroys her most sustaining illusion, that he will be grateful to her for saving his life.


Nora (1997)

George and Martha are a couple living in mordant uproarious antagonism. Martha, the daughter of the president of the college where George teaches, cannot forgive her husband's failure to be a success like her father. He can't abide her brutal bluntness and drive. Married for over 20 years, they claw away at each other like jungle beasts.&nbsp;

In the dark hours after a campus party, the couple are joined by another pair who have been to the party; a new, young and opportunistic biology instructor, who ha

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1994)

Willy Loman has been a travelling salesman for a large New England company for thirty-four years. One morning, he returns home, telling his wife Linda that he can't seem to concentrate on the driving any more.

They have two grown sons, Happy and Biff. The latter has returned home after many years, having failed to realize his potential ~ and his father's hopes ~ as a football player. The reason for this, and the events it sets in motion, seem to have deeply affected both his relationship with his father 

Death of a Salesman (1994)

Mergers and Accusations chronicles an ambitious lesbian lawyer’s double life in conservative Singapore where she marries her best friend in a ‘marriage of convenience’ that presents her with the best of both worlds — a socially respectable position, and a husband who accepts her sexual orientation.

Mergers & Accusations (1993)

The Lady Of Soul And Her Ultimate ’S’ Machine is a political satire about a government which decides that a nation needs more ‘soul’ to make it a more vibrant place. A civil servant heads a committee to find the best way to achieve this. In his ‘soul’ search, three candidates present their ideas of what ‘soul’ is – a mamasan, a left-wing radical and a representative from the arts. After hearing them, he submits his recommendation…

The Lady of Soul and Her Ultimate 'S' Machine (1993)

Private Parts,&nbsp;set in 1995, centres on a successful yuppie talk-show host and the private lives of two transsexuals. Their lives take an unexpected turn after a talk-show when the two transsexuals open their lives to public scrutiny and discrimination.&nbsp;


Private Parts (1992)

Video Cast

Singapore Lyric Theatre

Paris. Anna, widow of banker Glawari, has been left a fortune. It is essential to the finances of Pontevedro that she marries a Pontevedrian rather than a foreigner. The Pontevedrian Ambassador Baron Zeta - whose "highly respectable wife", Valencienne is pursued by Camille de Rossilon - orders his high-living attache Count Danilo to serve his fatherland for a change and marry Anna. The two had been in love in the past, but Danilo was vowed that he will never say "I love you" to Anna. It takes much intrigue 

The Merry Widow (1992)

A delightful night at the theatre, with an ASEAN play that’s witty and poignant, culturally rich and beautifully crafted… and yes, it is in English! Ten family members hit the long road to Manila in high spirits. They’re heading south for their father’s funeral. Along the way, the journey becomes an allegory for each of them. A personal odyssey revealing humour, horror, guilt, modern attitudes and traditional forces.


Trip to the South (1991)

A spicy, mouthwatering dish, garnished with colourful characters. Choo Bee Lian is the owner of a famous fried rice chain. She hopes to retire, but her two daughters, Bee Lee and Bee Hoon, are sworn enemies and refuse to run the business together. A contest is set up to determine the successor of Fried Rice Paradise. The ensuing competition leads to intrigue and staggering revelations, as each character, under heat, imbues Fried Rice Paradise with her own special flavour.


Fried Rice Paradise (1991)

A play that reflects the conscience of the 1960s,&nbsp;Mimi Fan&nbsp;shows that Singaporeans were as much in search of an inner peace as their Western counterparts. The dissatisfaction and impotence felt by foreign-educated intellectuals is seen through the story of protagonist Chan Fei Loong.&nbsp;Mimi Fan&nbsp;was written in 1962 and first staged by the Experimental Theatre Club. It was the first truly Singaporean play in English.


Mimi Fan (1990)

M Butterfly&nbsp;is about the&nbsp;tempestuous love affair&nbsp;between a French diplomat and a Chinese&nbsp;Opera actress and&nbsp;has been a sensational hit
on Broadway and the West End.&nbsp;For the&nbsp;Festival, Theatreworks will be mounting&nbsp;an all new production, drawing on talents&nbsp;available in the region.

This promises to be a landmark production&nbsp;and a major step in the development of&nbsp;this energetic young company.&nbsp;


M Butterfly (1990)

Practice Theatre Ensemble

Little Girl has no friends because she asks 'silly' question.&nbsp;

Old Tree is 'funny' because its leaves grow near the ground. Who has time for a dumb, old tree, anyway. You know, a tree is just a tree... well, almost.&nbsp;

Little Girl meets Old Tree. They become friends. Bulldozers come to remove the tree. Girl risks her life to save Tree...


The Silly Little Girl and the Funny Old Tree (1989)

William Teo

Asia-in-Theatre Research Centre

Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across a battle-defaced Europe during the Thirty Years War, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon to make a living. One by one, she loses her children to war but will not part with her livelihood - the wagon.


Mother Courage and Her Children (1989)

Manasaa is Sanskrit for mind. Manasaa comprises four segments and is a sharing of thoughts expressed in poetry, music, song, dance, gymnastics, mime and theatre. It features a boy's view of the world around him, children celebrating the joys of childhood, three women on a journey in search of happiness and ends with a playlet exploring death


Manasaa (1988)

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Two men, two women…. four voices that intertwine to create a deeply moving exposition about the extremes of love, hope, longing, desire, disappointment, despair and loneliness.

This experiment by 3rd&nbsp;Culture Theatre is an attempt to create the kind of experiential and visceral theatre that Sarah Kane sought to make.

Audience members are intimately connected to performers. Sound becomes textural through shifts in spatial perspectives. Fleeting hint

Gerald Chew

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