The Glowers Drama Group

Chap Lau&nbsp;is a radio play that follows the stories of some of the residents of the kampong to see how they are affected by resettlement and how they adjust to city living. It looks at the socioeconomic problems in the '60s like earning a living, housing and fitting into society. It also features common social groupings like tontines and night classes. There are 10 episodes, each between 10 - 15 minutes long, available in English and Mandarin.


Chap Lau (2021)

Cast

The Main Wayang Company

It's the 60s! The moon shines especially bright over Tanjong Rambutan - Singapore's best kept secret that's alive with colourful characters as well as music and dances that are unbelievably infectious.&nbsp;


Malam Newstalgia (2011)

Teater Ekamatra

Nadirah is the popular and articulate Vice-President of her university's Muslim Society. She convenes inter-faith meetings where students talk about how they should respect on another's spaces.

Nadirah is also the product of a mixed marriage. Her father is a Malaysian Malay and her mother a Singaporean Chinese who had converted to Islam.&nbsp;

One day, Nadirah's mother tells her that she's going to re-marry. To a man who's not Muslim. Nadirah's best friend Maznah believes that everyone has a right to 

Nadirah (2011)

ACTION Theatre

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Perfecting Prata and Cravings (2010)

Anyone growing up in Singapore will be familiar with her story - that of a Dutch girl who was raised by a Javanese Muslim foster mother, and whose Catholic biological parents petitioned the Singapore courts to claim her back. The ensuing custody battle, set against a backdrop of increasing anti-colonial sentiments in 1950, resulted in one of the worst riots in Singapore's history. The girl had two names: Maria Hertogh, as well as Nadra bte Ma'arof.&nbsp;

In Singapore, it has been drummed into our psyche 

Nadirah (2009)

Wild Rice

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)

W!LD RICE celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Michael Chiang and Dick Lee’s Beauty World – Singapore’s all-time favourite musical – with a sparkling new production at the Esplanade Theatre.

A mysterious jade pendant brings an innocent small town girl to Beauty World, a fabulous if somewhat seamy 1960s Singapore nightclub, where she hopes to find her long-lost father.

In her adventures, she meets up with her dotty pen-pal, gets a extreme make-over for her stage debut, crosses the path of the cabaret’s v

Beauty World (2008)

Chorus

The Car is semi-autobiographical. I began the play in 1996 just before my father passed away of cancer and did not complete it until 2005 under ACTION Theatre's Theatre Idol 2005 by awarded both the Jury Prize and the Audience Choice Award for "Best New Play". The Car was fully stated at The Esplanade Theatre Studio by ACTION Theatre in late July 2006. The premiere production was directed by Samantha Scott-Blackhall and was performed by Tony Quek, Noorlinah Mohamed and Gene Sha Rudyn. Since 2011, the play h

The Car (2006)

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)

With eight stories, Landmarks maps out the universal afflictions of love, desire and longing – of gay boys and men in straight Singapore (and the women who love them).

Characterised by Alfian Sa’at’s wit and insight, LANDMARKS will take you on an entertaining and enlightening journey across the island’s pink map, from Ann Siang Hill to Fort Road, from comedy to elegy. It is one journey we promise you won’t soon forget.

1. Katong Fugue
Secrets and ties:&nbsp;a son with a hidden life, a mother desperat

Landmarks: Asian Boys Vol. 2 (2004)

3.14 Company

When you drink water be grateful to its source...&nbsp;– Cheng Zhong Shi, First generation


Belly of the Carp (2002)

The Necessary Stage

A play about what happens in modern-day Singapore when an Indian Boy dates a Chinese girl.


Mixed Blessings (2000)

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)

Singapore Repertory Theatre

The Cheong clan gathers to celebrate their patriarch, Ah Kong (that's "Grandfather" in Hokkien) 71st birthday. Audiences are caught right in the midst of this deliciously interactive play. Entertained by family intrigues at their table, cheeky scandals across the room, tender karaoke' moments, juicy bites of gossip while feasting on some Chinese culinary favourites, prepared by Ah Kong's favourite chefs and leave Ah Kong's Birthday Party with a velly happy belly!


Ah Kong's Birthday Party (1998)

The Felix Chia Troupe

The Festival offers another delightful and highly popular Peranakan play Si&nbsp;Adek Beradek (The Siblings) with its share of colourful characters and an&nbsp;even more colourful language.

Following the success of Felix Chia’s last two plays, Pileh Menantu (Choosing a&nbsp;Daughter-in-law) and Mari Kita Main Wayang (Let's Stage a Show), the popular Baba author&nbsp;and playwright was specially commissioned by the National Arts Council to pen Si Adek&nbsp;Beradek...&nbsp;The play should tickle audiences 

Si Adek Beradek (1995)

'MARI KITA MAIN WAYANG' (LET'S STAGE A PLAY) is a play within a play. Performed in Peranakan patois, it pokes fun, in good taste at a group of Babas who try to put up a play; entitled, "ENAM BINI" (SIX WIVES), this story is about an imaginary Baba King who keeps one concubine after another as he longs to get a son. Although the sixth concubine finally delivers a male child, surprises are in store for the king, the queen, as well as the concubine.


Mari Kita Main Wayang (1994) 

STARS Community Theatre

The King and I is without question one of the most enduring&nbsp;and heartwarming works in the repertoire of American musical&nbsp;theater. First staged in 1951 during the golden era of the&nbsp;Broadway musical, this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic is&nbsp;fondly remembered not only for such songs as Getting To Know&nbsp;You and Shall We Dance but for the immortal performance Yul&nbsp;Brynner turned in as the King of Siam.&nbsp;

Tonight, perhaps, we will discover a new Yul Brynner in this&nbsp;marvelous

The King and I (1991)

Front of House

Publicity

In Shakespeare's day, there were two evenings of the year specially devoted to merrymaking - the eve of the twelfth day after Christmas and the eve of June 24th. For the&nbsp;one, Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night and for the other, A Midsummer Night's Dream, two&nbsp;of the most perfect and well-loved comedies of all time.

A Midsummer Night's Dream was written around 1594, the time of a very bad summer&nbsp;in England, an event to which the Fairy Queen, Titania, refers during the play. It was&nbsp;intende

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1991)

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Tony Quek

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