spell#7

What does it mean to be on stage with your grandma? Perform with your sister or dance with your child? In Family Duet, a multi-generational cast presents an off-beat mix of life experiences and perspectives of the world.

Reflecting spell#7's intimate and inventive approach to theatre-making, Family Duet highlights the questions that family living answers but rarely asks: What is it to live together? How did I get these eyes? Are we ever too young to fail, or too old to disappoint? Where are the emergency

Family Duet (2013)

Lighting Designer

National Arts Council

A very warm welcome to the Singapore Arts Festival 2012!

Over 16 extraordinary days, we invite you to encounter a stunning array of performances that we hope will be close to your heart.&nbsp;

The Singapore Arts Festival 2012 completes the trilogy we started two editions ago:&nbsp;Between You and Me&nbsp;(2010),&nbsp;I Want to Remember&nbsp;(2011),&nbsp;Our Lost Poems&nbsp;(2012).&nbsp;

Our Lost Poems&nbsp;will look at myths, legends, wandering thoughts, reflections, lost riddles and hidden stories

Singapore Arts Festival 2012

General Manager

Greetings from the Singapore Arts Festival!

The theme for this year’s Festival is, I&nbsp;want to remember.&nbsp;It comes from a deep personal desire not for nostalgia but&nbsp;for a reconnection to memories, histories and places that&nbsp;we have forgotten.

Living in a fast paced city like Singapore often requires us to&nbsp;forget and erase memories. Sometimes, we don’t even have&nbsp;the capacity to remember. And memory is a funny thing; it is&nbsp;never absolute or complete. At best, we try to pie

Singapore Arts Festival 2011

This year's Festival promises to bring audiences and&nbsp;artists closer together through 34 premier productions&nbsp;from 20 countries and regions.&nbsp;These include new&nbsp;works and collaborations reaching across cultures,&nbsp;borders and genres. We invite you to partake&nbsp;in the creative energy and community bonding of&nbsp;the Festival.

Under the new leadership of General Manager Low&nbsp;Kee Hong, the Festival is embarking on a new phase&nbsp;of development to deepen its connection with artis

Singapore Arts Festival 2010

T:>Works (TheatreWorks)

A woman desires to be a mother. Another desires for a mother. And one who is a mother. Stories of a woman’s hidden desires and memories are told through a series of five intimate episodes. Share in her longing as she crosses between time and space, between dreams and reality. Set against Mother’s Grief,&nbsp;a black-and-white Hong Kong film made in 1961,&nbsp;Ma: Moment&nbsp;is presented in an architectural pavilion of reimagined old shophouses and cinema screens, built on the site of Chinatown’s infamous D

Ma: Moment (2004)

Conceptualizer

Director

Projection Designer

In every life there comes a time when that dream you dream becomes a reality… even if it be for a brief passing.

60’s Talentime meets Pop Idol! Catch the new TheatreWorks production that celebrates the dreams, naivety, passion, and youthful energy of four dreamers from different backgrounds in their quest for fame and stardom! Come chart the trials and tribulations that await these four young hopefuls as they embark on a bittersweet journey of self-realisation.


Shanty - Follow That Dream (2004)

Set Designer

Associate Director

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)

I remember the blood rushing to my head when I felt his tongue in my mouth, licking the insides of my mouth. And our tongues met and did a strange and delicious flicking dance, circling slowly then darting around. He sucked my lips – the upper then the lower, ever so slowly… I thought I was going to melt. I was one puddle of wet desire. Time stood still – we were the only two hungry mouths in the world. Screw Christmas. Fuck politics. Whatever to the rest of the world. This went on for hours. Gimme more.


Pulse (2003)

ACTION Theatre

The latest play by award-winning playwright Jean Tay who won the first prize in the 3rd HP/ACTION Theatre 10-Minute Play Contest with The Knot, The Swallowed Seed invites the audience into the whimsical world of Sheryl. Having swallowed a 'Rambutan Seed' by accident when she was six, Sheryl has to live with the consequences that continue to haunt her through the rest of her life. Having a Rambutan tree grow out of her head is just one of them.


The Swallowed Seed (2002)

Sound Designer

A brand new monologue by Stella Kon, the acclaimed playwright of Singapore's best-loved monologue Emily of Emerald Hill. Human Heart Fruit tells an intriguing story of Jenny who cares devotedly for her husband Joe, while he is temporarily confined to a wheelchair. But one day, there is an accident... Playing off the conventions of one-woman drama, Stelle Kon slices open a 'Chiku' and exposes a human heart.


Human Heart Fruit (2002)

A new commission written by veteran playwright Tan Tarn How,&nbsp;Machine&nbsp;had its first reading of its first act in March 2001. Since then, it has been developed into a full-length drama about love and relationships in modern times – an uncharacteristic subject from Tarn How, who is well-known for his political satires.&nbsp;

A strange tale of two men, Rex and Heng, who turn up at the home of listless friends Lina and Kim one day. The men claim to be appliance repairmen, though they don’t always beh

Machine (2002)

Performer

The Necessary Stage

CPL Cheong has just been shot in the belly at the firing range: in the last moments of his life, he tells the audience his story. He has been pregnant with a child of unknown origin since BMT, or so he believes. Despite the sensible advice of his army buddy and his government prostitute imaginary friend, he attempts to destroy the foetus by various means, including visits to the Medical Centre and a fall from the roof of the Accoms block (which earns him a medical downgrade). Eventually, Cheong learns to li

Serve (2002)

Cast

Desdemona&nbsp;is a dreamscape of discovering the She within the He,&nbsp;of discovering the other within the self,&nbsp;of discovering another culture within one’s culture.

The performance text of Desdemona can be said to be conceptually a shamanic journey intersected with contemporary visual art&nbsp;and the intercultural process. With this process of rethinking questions, Desdemona&nbsp;turns its inspiration, Shakespeare’s Othello&nbsp;completely on its head.

Hot from its recent world premiere at t

Desdemona (2000)

Collaborator

The lives of yesterday's Chinese rickshaw coolics and today's&nbsp;construction workers from India is the central theme of&nbsp;TheatreWorks' Workhorse Afloat.

Under the artistic direction of Ong Keng Sen, Workhorse&nbsp;Afloat explores how circumstances in Singapore have come full&nbsp;circle, by juxtaposing the lonely world of Chinese rickshaw&nbsp;coolies dating back from 1880 to 1940, with the Indian&nbsp;workers presently here.

Although most of us have seen&nbsp;these Indian workers in large&nbsp

Workhorse Afloat (1997)

One woman refuses to eat. She becomes the chosen one – to lead the women, the people, into a new era. She visits Gandhi, Karen Carpenter and Mother Theresa on a little island called Paradise. Hordes of women follow her – women who heal and perform miracles. The women have a glimpse of utopia in the Land of Women. They become a nation unto themselves – a nation of hungry ghosts. They are hunted by a man with a syringe – by the establishment.Inspired by the Ming Dynasty classic, Jing Hua Yuan, and the Holocau

Destinies of Flowers in the Mirror (1997)

Music & Movement Singapore

A Comedy That Is Literally Out-Of-This-World. And what do we mean by out of this world? Imagine this - a play whose five main characters, the KARMA KOMMITTEE, act as "guardian angels", dabbling in the protagonist's life, often with hilarious results! The protagonist - James Lee - in all his self-centredness is another character to watch closely. The play follows James' life and times, actually two life-times and how he loses and redeems himself. Guiding James and the audience is the KARMA KOMMITTEE, who are

Karma Kommittee (1996)

Devi, a salesgirl at a designer boutique and her colleague Swallow attend a high-class party cum album launch. There Devi meets her old school friend Lavika, now a successful local recording artiste, and her glamorous mother Tina. When Devi lies about her work at the boutique, she finds that she is suddenly more accepted and popular. By the end of the evening, Devi is slow-dancing with Krishna, Singapore's top runner and bachelor of the year.

Trouble begins when lies grow bigger, when friendships are tak

Top of the World (1995)

THREE YEARS IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF LAND is about the Lims, the Mulchands, a ghost, a cat and three • mosquitoes — one big family, trying hard to be happy.


Three Years in the Life and Death of Land (1994)

Written in 1981,&nbsp;Borderline&nbsp;is concerned with a group of Pakistanis trying to make a home for themselves in London. Amina, who is at the heart of the story, has to contend with her traditional parents, her liberal friends and her indecisive boyfriend. Together with other characters -Ravi, who just arrived from India, Anil, his 'long-lost friend' and Susan, an English journalist- Hanif Kureishi has created a finely-crafted, humorous and powerful play.


Borderline (1993)

Front of House Assistant

OFF CENTRE traces the friendship of two ex-mental patients, Saloma and Vinod, and the problems and the hurdles they have to overcome, including social stigma, prejudices and personal conflicts.


Off Centre (1993)

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Low Kee Hong

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