Drama Box

Qing is struggling to deal with the aftermath of a relationship that ended after 20 years. E is negotiating the difficult position of sole-caregiving to a mother who does not fully accept her.&nbsp;Both Qing and E identify as queer, and are in their fifties. On the cusp of old age, Qing and E are finding that they have another set of challenges to overcome as queer individuals.&nbsp;When cloud catches colours is a verbatim theatre based on true accounts that highlights how the sense of safety changes for a 

When cloud catches colours (2023)

Set Designer

Part theatre, part collective experience, ubin by Singapore theatre company Drama Box invites you to an immersive walking tour uncovering the stories and sites of Pulau Ubin – and share in a moment to reimagine the island’s future.&nbsp;There is another reality alongside ours – one where nature, community and a slower rhythm quietly stand against the march of urbanisation.&nbsp;This is Pulau Ubin: an island mere 15 minutes away from the main island of Singapore. Ubin, which means “squared stone” in Javanese

ubin (2022)

Spatial Designer

The Finger Players

A multi-disciplinary site-specific production featuring international puppeteers and designers from Hong Kong, China and Singapore! Traditions and modernity meet in this site-specific production that takes audience through a corridor of memories and stories performed by Master Puppeteers from China, Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as Sound and Visual Artists. This eclectic mix of artists is specially picked for this project to create an immersive multi-disciplinary theatrical journey that articulates the n

The Collectors (2016)

The day starts with a flush from the toilet and ends with the pronouncement of the clock ticking loudly. He often wakes up to the bus arriving and boards precariously while making tea, only to come short of reaching his destination because the house phone starts ringing. I see him open the drawer many times to spy on listless commuters swarming on and off trains during rush hour. I hear him sit quietly near the living room windows, waiting patiently in line for his turn to order food. He turns on the fan an

ONETWOSIX (2015)

Conceptualizer

Director

A daughter faces her transvestite father’s impending death. However, her last lap with him does not come smoothly, as she unearths his suppressed secret which wreaks emotional hell on the parent-and-child relationship.

It is not the father’s penchant to cross dress that drives a wedge between the two — that is open knowledge. It is something else.

While the horrified daughter struggles with the emotions that run riot through her, her father, trying desperately to discern the meaning of life, is greete

The Book of Living and Dying (2013)

Technical Consultant

Puppetry Lights Consultant

The Book of Living and Dying (2012)

two remnants of a day
yesterday and tomorrow

day in, day out... unchanging
lingering in between
intimate, yet distant

One Fine Day
wherefore the reminiscing?

Perchance the present

tacit,

breathing,

looking within.

ONE FINE DAY is the latest multi-disciplinary performance by The Finger Players and the same collective of award-winning designers and performers who had helmed the visually charged productions –suitCASES and 0501. Come witness the transformation of a black box theatre int

One Fine Day (2013)

Creator

Trapped in an unknown time, in an unknown corner afar, the only things five unknown souls can recall are the great uncertainties of their correlation.&nbsp;

They embark on a retracing of mutual identities but soon derail into pondering over the state of their beings. Is this merely an attempt to provide meaning to their transient forms - however arbitrary?&nbsp;

They start to reflect, and try to salvage whatever is left of their memory, while yearning for a glimpse of a beacon of hope somewhere afar.&

Afar (2012)

Ang Gey Pin

With a common interest rooted in the research on the actor’s craft, theatre arts, music and songs, international collaborators of Sourcing Within, under the direction of Ang Gey Pin, often come together through constant intensive work sessions and theatrical presentations.&nbsp; They would research on certain themes of interest, investigated their differences, drew from their own cultures / traditions, and dialogued with inspiring works of theatre, film, dance and finally devised and created their work.&nbs

Wandering.Birds (2011)

Stage Designer

To truly love a land, one must first unearth the beauty buried in its sorrows.

On a strange and yet familiar city-island, a group of travellers drift about, but are ever-so ready to fulfil their obligations in life. They breathe but they can’t fill the void within. A howl is heard from afar, sensual and primitive. The travellers embark on a journey in search of this calling.

suitCASES is a multidisciplinary performance which attempts to unravel the secrets of our lands. Expect surprises.


suitCASES (2010)

Traditions & Editions Theatre Circus

The world of spirits is a world of flux.

Five post-war personas in a state of limbo gather at a deserted place.

Searching for a way home, they stop only to hear each other’s poignant tales of war and loss, endeavors and bygone dreams.

Soon, haunting memories of guilt and pain are unveiled and they realize they are tangled to each other in their choices and consequences.

With their relationship to each other now clear, they unleash a series of questions about the sense and senselessness of war.


The Spirits Play (2009)

One lives out of her tattered suitcase, drifting from place to place. Another, a wife and mother devoted to her family, is torn by an unquenchable desire to be free. A third, haunted by requited love, yearns to embark on a new life. All three are runaways, but are they truly free?

Whispers recreates the emotional journeys of three women who have run away only to rediscover the long-suppressed whispers of the heart.

Whispers is an unconventional, non-linear play, featuring monologues with traditional a

Whispers (2009)

A Multidisciplinary Site-specific Theatrical Production

A boy used to walk on the grass barefooted&nbsp;
After rain, the grass was wet and soft&nbsp;
It’d feel like stepping on clouds&nbsp;
The grass was lush and warm when the sun was up,&nbsp;
It’d tickle his toes and his soul&nbsp;&nbsp;
Now the boy wears shoes&nbsp;
Now he could only feel the rubber of his soles&nbsp;
He has long forgotten how the grass had felt like underneath his feet&nbsp;&nbsp;

Poet, dancer, visual artist, actress, puppe

0501 (2007)

Installation

The Theatre Practice

After eight daughters, a son is finally here - and no ordinary son is he.

Shifu, a master of traditional puppetry, makes a prediction before his birth that the boy will be endowed with exceptional intelligence, and will grow up to be a man of great accomplishment. He is therefore named You Wei (meaning "achievement"), and nicknamed Lao Jiu (the ninth-born).

Lao Jiu's parents and his many sisters devote themselves to the care of the gifted child, harbouring ambitions for him to do well in his studies, 

Lao Jiu (2005)

Ménage à trois?&nbsp;

No thanks, it's rather passé and unexciting really, with only just three...&nbsp;

The Theatre Practice (TTP) is proud to present its Lunar New Year production and invite to a Ménage à 13!

Did you say 13? Relax... it's really not that kinky. Just four people in 13 positions.

Sounds complicated? You bet.

Loud and brassy politician Cai Liu Mu is having a scandalous affair with the delectable Miss Ye, behind the back of his wife, celebrity talkshow host Hua Jie, who noses en

Menage a 13 (2005)

We must live together
to live on;
We must have forbiddance&nbsp;
to live together;
The question is,
How to live on,
With forbiddance.&nbsp;


Strange Fruit: Forbidden (2004)

Checkpoint Theatre

Election Day&nbsp;is a darkly humorous study of male friendship set against the simmering backdrop of the Malaysian elections. The witty sketch was written by Huzir Sulaiman and first staged in Kuala Lumpur in a matter of weeks after the high stakes political race of 1999 Malaysia General Elections; drawn from Huzir’s own experience as a volunteer for an opposition candidate.


Election Day (2004)

In a world that revolves around the very nature of change, where are our constants?

Landmarks fade.
Time shifts.
And even gods get left behind.

A taxi driver. His very occupation takes him to different places and different people. Constantly moving. It does not matter if he desires to move. He moves anyway.&nbsp;

A young woman. She dreams of a past life that she does not recognise. She searches to save the past from being forgotten. But why she must remember it, she does not know. Or does she nee

Moving Gods (2003)

Two directors of distinctive styles
Creating a night of thrill, suspenses and black humour
Inviting you to walk into the story
With a unique and intimate theatre atmosphere&nbsp;


The Waterloo Murders (2003)

Graphic Designer

黒暗的高天、黑暗的厚地，幾個辭世多年的亡魂，沒有忘卻人世的季節。每一年的這個時候，在季節輪替的瞬間，他們共赴一場重聚的儀式， 開始訴説自己的故事。

他們原來是什麼？漢子、媽媽、姑娘、將軍和詩人。他們是怎麼來到逍裏的？他們怎樣和一場最血腥慘烈的戰爭結合在一起？好好的人，怎麼能，忍受骨肉分離而無怨無悔？看着自己的同胞慘死而視若無睹； 為什麼把自身送I, 給無數人蹂躪？怎麼會，在戰場上讓自己03醫生報銷自己的軍隊？人性在哪裏？人性是什麼？

當生命進入混沌的狀態，人與物難辨、真與偽難同列、神與鬼難分時，家是什麼？回不去了。為什麼？

靜消悄的。顏色、生死之間的顏色。最終，一切在靜消悄裏，歸於黑暗。

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The Spirits Play (1998)

Set Assistant

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Family (1998)

Set Coordinator

On these final resting grounds lay soldiers, prostitutes and a scholar. This sounds like a foreign land, ruins on a faraway wilderness. In actual fact, this cemetery is in our midst. It sits quietly in a private residential district, on Chuan Hoe Avenue in Yio Chu Kang.

The soldiers were from the Japanese Imperial Army of the Second World War. They were killed on battle grounds during the war, in execution chambers after. They died of illness, by accident, by suicide. They all lay here, regardless of ran

Scenic Painter

Two doting parents

One devoted wife &amp; a steady business

Three diligent children

Many would consider this a blessing
But, why is he still unhappy?

Frustration grows

Tension mounts

Conflict erupts

What's the problem?

Is there any way he could be happy?


Teochew Kangaroo (1998)

An original multi-lingual multi-racial play about the life &amp; times and joys &amp; struggles of Geylang.


Geylang People in the Net (1997)

Photographer

Practice Theatre Ensemble

Set on the margins of a mythical wilderness, two tormented childhood lovers reunite. What follows is a series of tragedy which rivals those of the Greek's, revealing a complexity of love, hatred, morality and natural law which seems to defy human resolution. Against such adversity, the fateful couple exudes a relentless celebration of passion and courage. This PTE production attempts to release a riveting new contemporary understanding innate in the classic play of prototypical significance.&nbsp;


The Savage Land (1996)

Assistant Set Designer

In the ancient and tumultuous days, there existed a myth about the "strange beasts" which caused damage to the village. For the sake of his fellow villagers, Asi shouldered the task to eliminate the ninety-nine beasts.

However, the esteem and respect the villagers held for him eventually transformed into fear. They suspected that Asi was the mysterious hundredth beast and began to fear and avoid him, and to the extent of doubting his power. Unaware of the villagers' change of attitude towards him, Asi em

Death of a Hero (1995)

Design Educator

Design Professional

Centre 42

“A poor secret house, as in an old print, that only lives in me, where sometimes I return to sit down and forget the gray day and the rain.”&nbsp;– 1913, André Lafon

In the blue house that lives within, there is a room outside. Inside this room, there is a tree that the room enjoys listening to. Above this tree, there is a chair that rocks in tune with the tree. Under this chair, there is a table that creaks in silence as the chair sings. Within this table, there is a forest that the table was made of. I

The Room that Grew Buoyant, Little by Little by INDEX

The third of the series,&nbsp;#3.3 scale 1:333333.333…&nbsp;is a bold spatial installation in response to selected themes from the play&nbsp;Invisibility&nbsp;by Quah Sy Ren.

Conceived as a multi-dimensional ‘organism’, this living installation highlights the ephemeral nature of relationships and the interchangeable, interdependent forces of life that exist in this larger world. Solid and gaseous CO2&nbsp;is used as a key medium to embody the transitional becoming of a state. In this exploration of an or

Lim Wei Ling

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