Nine Years Theatre

What happens when a family decides that there should be no secrets?On the first day of the lunar new year, a family of three sisters gather at their aunt’s place to celebrate. &nbsp;Older sister Shi Qi (Jean Ng) has an unlikely new boyfriend: Guo Fu Cheng (Rayson Tan), the owner of a funeral parlour—a relationship that her son disapproves of. Second sister Shi Lin (Sharon Au) is a veteran stage actress facing a &nbsp;midlife crisis. She dreams of becoming an internet celebrity, and later finds&nbsp;herself 

Everything For You (2024)

Makeup

Cake Theatrical Productions

The 2023 edition of Running with Strippers returns with The strange beautiful thing was within reach, an exploration by 17 artists and collectives from various disciplines, invited to reimagine the interstitial spaces of an industrial building.Organised as a non-prescriptive sequence of alternating scenes, the performances and installations highlight the creative affinities and friction between society and technology, while exploring the performative duet between man and machine.Artists: Brandon Tay x thesu

Running with Strippers: The strange beautiful thing was within reach (2023)

Lighting Designer

Creator

Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

After captivating audiences in Singapore and Australia, the Dragon Lady returns to Esplanade for her debut in the Singtel Waterfront Theatre. Winner of the Best Work of the Year (Dramatic) in the Australian Art Music Awards 2021,&nbsp;Dragon Ladies Don’t Weep&nbsp;is a sonic portrait of new music icon Margaret Leng Tan—an evocative exploration of memory, time, control and loss that sweeps across the senses. An autobiographical rumination on the renowned pianist’s personal and professional history, the work 

Dragon Ladies Don't Weep (2022)

We are in a new era of performance making. An era of dissolution. Dissolution of genres. Dissolution of generational divides. Dissolution of “I” in creation. With that, we are emerging into an era of commencement. Commencing brave unknowns. Commencing democracy in creative dialogue. Commencing the “We” in creation.

In this August edition of&nbsp;Running with Strippers, we return to our home base. CAKE's home base in a northern suburb, a space where two years ago, at any given time, machines wurrrred putt

Running with Strippers: Ethereal Machines (2021)

Singapore Repertory Theatre

The real "Lin Bo" and "Wang Min" are fugitives who create work from undisclosed locations to safeguard their identities and minimize exposure in a global climate when every border crossing is an opportunity for capture. As artistic leaders of the Xiong Collective (which has also never maintained a physical presence), they follow the teachings of their mentor, legendary dissident artist Yu Rong, who initiated a collaborative process they call "Embodiment."

Collaborating with SRT, playwright (Christopher C

Caught (2019)

Set Designer

Checkpoint Theatre

“In the early morning march,
With the field pack on my back,
With an aching in my heart,
And my body full of sweat.”

For their seventh year in reservist training, a group of army mates in an armoured infantry unit return for a war game exercise. In the periods of waiting, their thoughts drift to their relationships, jobs, newborn babies and aging parents as the demands of the outside world intrude in. They begin to wrestle with what it means to step up and ‘adult’.

Poignant and insightful,&nbsp;FRA

FRAGO (2017)

The Necessary Stage

Over three decades, The Necessary Stage and actors-collaborators who have been partners in the making of the company's devised plays have revealed to us over and over again - in profound, heartbreaking and funny ways - what it means to 'be' in Singapore.&nbsp;

Vinod | Radha Krishnan | Eric Sim Guan Yeow&nbsp;| Noorhayati Yusof&nbsp;| Sergeant Mok&nbsp;| Jali bin Mohd Fariz&nbsp;| Mrs Chua&nbsp;| Mrs Phua Su Lin&nbsp;| Alisha&nbsp;| Melly&nbsp;| Saloma and many more

Away from the buzz of the rehearsal 

Being Haresh Sharma (2017)

An adaptation of the 2015&nbsp;M1-The Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards&nbsp;nominee for Best Original Script,&nbsp;#UnicornMoment&nbsp;explores the important moments that shape an individual’s life.

In&nbsp;#UnicornMoment, Shu An questions herself on the relationships she has with the people around her and the things that give meaning to her life. She delves into her past through a series of interviews, to learn from mistakes and to find flashes of clarity and insight that swiftly disappear—or, as she 

#UnicornMoment (2016)

Cake’s studio undergoes a complete strip down, making way for a 124ft X 21ft cavern for art. Running with Strippers features artists and their creations, spilling across genres from performance to performance art, installation to performance installation and music; each segment adding up to three nights of alternative artistic encounters brought to you by artists across disciplines bent on designing original work with a spirit of experimentation and exposing varying degrees of nakedness, metaphorical or oth

Running With Strippers (2015)

Conceptualizer

Director

Written by Tan Tarn How, The Lady of Soul and Her Ultimate “S” Machine (first staged in 1993) 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, Derek, decides to find the best way to achieve this is by calling for a “soul search”. Three candidates—a mama- san, a left-wing radical and a representative from the arts—present their ideas on what “soul” is. After hearing them, Derek undergoes an internal debate where he must d

The Lady of Soul and Her Ultimate “S” Machine (2015)

"...the more I discover, the more I am convinced that we were related, that I had to be a descendant of the Eunuch Admiral."A powerful work about castration and politics,&nbsp;Descendants of the Eunuch Admiralrecounts the legacy of the man responsible for China’s most extensive maritime expeditions in the 15th century, the legendary eunuch, Admiral Zheng He. Using the metaphor of castration, parallels are drawn between the power struggles of court eunuchs and the displacement of modern beings who make sacri

Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral (2015)

Teater Ekamatra

In Kesamet, orgone is food, water, energy. Orgone is life. Dan works in the factory, producing orgone from his body day after day. At night, he dreams of a woman whose face he cannot see. Someone he believes is from a past he does not remember. His only friend, Talulah tells him it's for his own good. Kesamet survives when everyone plays their role. But is surviving enough?


Paradise (2014)

Clusters of galaxies emerge from the darkness, and ambivalent figures are born. Seemingly unconnected, these figures operate in isolation. Yet the simultaneity of their gestures, actions and thoughts seems connected by an overarching force. Images and movement create a world that the viewer must complete;&nbsp;an invitation to generate thoughts about a topic that has never ceased to fascinate – Love.&nbsp;

A complex emotion, a perpetual obsession, a force of nature and a subject that can never be dictate

Decimal Points 0 (2014)

She appears confident and bubbly, yet Shu An is uncertain of who she really is. All she knows is that she experiences flashes of clarity and insight that swiftly disappear — or, as she terms them, “unicorn moments”. As she delves into her past through interviews with people who have shaped her, Shu An hopes to translate her experiences from these pivotal milestones into a collection of life lessons. #UnicornMoment is a courageous and honest exploration of what it means to find happiness, meaning and your ow

#UnicornMoment (2014)

Technical Manager

Someone said the universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding.&nbsp;

Two actors move across a desert-like terrain.&nbsp;

Encounters between them gradually bring forth a dramatic landscape capturing at once, a dream-like state and the reality of their humanity.&nbsp;

A theatre performance in two acts.&nbsp;Illogic&nbsp;asks questions it can't answer and sets a path it won't follow.&nbsp;

Two actors. One moving terrain. Giving way to illogic.&nbsp;


Illogic (2013)

Drama Box

Jin Tong is a senior-level civil servant. She longs to commit herself unreservedly to her same-sex relationship with new Chinese immigrant Jackie, but is hampered by fears she refuses to admit. When beautiful memories of her teenage years return to haunt her, how can her sassy mother help?

Secondary school Math teacher Vicky falls in love with her male student. Is she trying to fill a vacuum in her marriage, or is she just trying to flee from a past she can never return to?

One has a heart tangled up 

Farewell: The Body in 16 Chapters (2013)

People.

Sticking it out in a hyper-real place. Doing things and saying things and thinking things out loud. They keep this up all day.

One Day in this Place&nbsp;is set against a backdrop of an imagined place at once familiar, at once kooky. This new Cake work features the emerging arts practitioners of&nbsp;In A Decade.


One Day in this Place (2013)

For Better or for Worse&nbsp;traces the love-hate marriage of middle-aged couple Gerald and Swen.

Set against the backdrop of everyday life in modern Singapore, the play tears apart notions of romantic love while compelling you to embrace the tedium and wonder, and the joys and pains, of marriage.

What is this thing called love?

Will “I do” lead to a dead end or a glorious future?


For Better or For Worse (2013)

A woman is on a flight from

Tanzania to Singapore

In limbo she cannot sleep

memories recent and past play out

in her mind and

a spectre of a loved one appears out

of nowhere


one point six one eight (2013)

5.1 refers to the six channel surround sound multichannel audio system - the most commonly used layout in both commercial cinemas and home theatres. It is also about the search for self in a densely populated space, a space with a population that is reaching a 5.1 million mark.

Decimal Points 5.1&nbsp;is a wordless movement based performance, incorporating radio frequency motion sensors, neo futuristic costumes and unconventional live vocal experimentation, colliding techno toys with raw human physicalit

Decimal Points 5.1 (2012)

An old woman’s recollection of romance under the Japanese occupation of Singapore causes her young interviewer to re-evaluate life, memory and history.

Written by award-winning and acclaimed playwright Huzir Sulaiman, Occupation weaves the true story of Huzir’s grandmother, Mrs Mohamed Siraj, with the experiences of the fictional character Sarah. Mrs Siraj was a young woman in her teens during the war years and spent most of the occupation sequestered in her large family home. Later in her eighties, Mrs 

Occupation (2012)

Si Ti Kay&nbsp;are nonsense sounds that express a deep feeling from deeper within.

In and out, up and down, through pathways of purity and corruption, anger and calm,&nbsp;Si Ti Kay&nbsp;tries to make sense of a mother's undying love and care for her children dying in the hands of a nonsensical war. It's about anger. It's about war. It's about mother. It's about finding hope in spite of Si Ti Kay.

Conceptualised and directed by Noor Effendy Ibrahim, this new creation sees Effendy explore themes and ar

Si Ti Kay (2012)

Lighting Artist

T:>Works (TheatreWorks)

Adapted from a Hokkien short story by Chien Swee Teng in his 1979 novel Bak Teng&nbsp;(Diced Meat), the&nbsp;enfant terribles&nbsp;of Singapore contemporary art, Vertical Submarine, invoke bittersweet tragedies of home and family with their theatrical debut. Fusing dioramas, dramaturgy, and installation art, the performance unfolds over decades within a flat. It begins with a bitchy couple who pester a young man to sell his apartment. We then hear the sounds of demolition and concrete debris falling, and an

Dust: A Recollection (2011)

Fear Of Writing&nbsp;portrays a playwright’s creative handicap – the writer’s block – under intense anxiety and scrutiny. Through this crisis, Tan uncovers the existentialism of self-censorship and freedoms in Singapore. An urgent provocation of the country’s boundaries – as bound to art, artist, citizen and humanity.&nbsp;Fear Of Writing&nbsp;proposes a theatrical parable for the politics of today, a future for the Singapore dream.

“This play is about the complacency of the average Singaporean, of theat

Fear of Writing (2011)

War rages throughout the country. A wounded sergeant informs King Duncan that his army, led by Macbeth and Banquo, managed to defeat the rebel forces led by the traitorous Thane of Cawdor. As Macbeth and Banquo return from battle, they meet three witches who predict Macbeth will become the Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland, but that it will be Banquo's children who will rule the country for many generations. Immediately afterwards, Ross arrives with a message for Macbeth has inherited the title. Macbeth 

Macbeth (2011)

This is Raghav’s journey: moving from the small Indian town of Ambala to the metropolis of Singapore. It is also a very personal retelling of the 1975 Bollywood classic, Sholay, with the exploits of its outlaws forming the backdrop of this insightful and funny coming-of-age story.

Travel with Raghav from his boyhood town with no traffic lights to the complexities of his university life in Singapore, then back again when he returns to India — a new India of cineplexes and fast food chains. In an ever chan

The Good, the Bad and the Sholay (2011)

Lighting Assistant

Set Assistant

Pangdemonium

Anyone who has loved with an obsession, anyone who has experienced jealousy and betrayal, and anyone who understands that passion can manifest itself in pure ecstasy or the deepest despair, will relish this play's deliciously dark humour, and be moved by its uncompromising honesty, Closer&nbsp;is a bold and unflinching examination of everything that makes us all so fragile, so flawed, and so human.


Closer (2011)

Assistant Lighting Designer

A simple marriage, an ambiguous affair; a tormenting suspicion, a burden to bear.&nbsp;

How far would a man go, to prove himself a cuckold?&nbsp;

This is a very very little town...&nbsp;

In Mandarin, with English surtitles.&nbsp;

Approximately 90 mins, no intermission.&nbsp;


The Magnanimous Cuckold (2010)

Set Concept

"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)

The Little Company

Bear and Chicken are back! This time, our loveable duo are getting ready to go to a new school. But moving from their familiar school to a new one is scary. Together Bear and Chicken decide to join the Circus. Wouldn't it be fun to be the circus down, acrobat or even the lion tamer?

What entails is a charming discovery that not all lessons in life are learnt in a classroom and perhaps the circus isn't all fun and games after all.

This play illustrates how sometimes our fears can be blown out of propor

Bear and Chicken Get Ready for School (2010)

Welcome to an academic lecture about goldfish, with total disregard to the narrow-minded formalities that hinder today’s intellectuals in bringing the fruits of their truly expanding and illuminating work to the wider public. The one aim of this lecture is to increase your knowledge of – and interest in – the small and bypassed phenomenon of the goldfish. With the slogan ‘in every absurd lecture, all means are allowed’, we are guided through selected themes such as – ‘pets as a substitute!’ ‘a travel in the

Goldfish is Meant for Dying (2009)

spell#7

Tree Duet is a meditative performance about our continuing entanglement with trees. Accompanied by pianist Shane Thio, performers Paul Rae and Kaylene Tan combine an intricately interwoven set of stories and reportage with simple actions and gestures to create a delicate theatrical ecology of sounds, words and images.

Eco-performance minus the moralizing, Tree Duet encompasses everything from the history of the Malayan rubber industry to carbon offsetting, the music of Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu to

Tree Duet (2009)

Deep in the heart of MacRitchie Reservoir lie the ruins of the Syonan Jinja, a Shinto shrine built during the Japanese occupation of Singapore. Envisioned first as a spiritual and recreational centre for the future empire, then built by Australian POWs and Japanese craftsmen, today it exists only as stone relics and fragments, swallowed up by the thick tropical rainforest.As young artists, we have embarked on a journey of discovery to reclaim this forgotten monument. Its very existence is intriguing – a bea

Reservoir (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)

House of Sins&nbsp;unveils the sins that had been lurking deep within people through a perfect family that is chosen on a sacred night to participate in a holy project. To save the sinners from hell, they are prepared to sacrifice themselves.

R18 (Mature Content)


House of Sins (2008)

Intercultural Theatre Institute

Theatre Training & Research Programme

A dynamic and compelling work of physical theatre examining the kamikaze spirit. War is by no means something that starts overnight, but rather a very calculated preparation by political forces, The indoctrination of the glory of death and the brandishing of the rifle and sword from the corporeal expression of six actors reveals how humans can lose the sense of being Human.

The cast has already undergone two and a half years of full-time contemporary theatre training , including immersions in Noh theatre

The Divine Wind and Tears Lost in the Rain (2008)

In a museum, time is confused. What looks old may be a reproduction, what looks new is actually a stained glass window from 1887.&nbsp;120&nbsp;attempts to recast the National Museum of Singapore as a host of luminescent voices.

The performance ushers the audience through the galleries, halls and exhibits playfully: inviting the audience to see this space in a different light, through alternate frames, against a wallpaper of people. The performance may take the shape of pockets of ‘happenings’, walks and

120 (2007)

A wry meditation on our continuing entanglement with trees. Interweaving stories from colonial history and the modern Asian city with simple effects and actions, spell#7 creates a delicate theatrical ecology of ideas and images: eco-performance minus moralizing.


Tree Duet (2007)

In&nbsp;Cogito, a commission of the 2007 Singapore Arts Festival, Huzir Sulaiman weaves the consequences of neuroscience and computing into a compelling story of love and loss.In the near future, technology has changed everything, except the strength – and fragility – of the human spirit. Two women discover they are grieving for the same man. But the secrets they unearth about their pasts threaten to overwhelm the present – and their very sense of identity.


Cogito (2007)

Luna-id

"I didn't like killing her that way. Don't like being that out of control."


Down the Road (2001)

Joined at the Head (2001)

From veteran actors to new faces; from theatre to dance; Stories and images that are both poignant and universal;&nbsp;Under the Last Dust&nbsp;is a rare Singaporean production; one that transcends language and gender; one that connects us all as humans living at the edge of life... a return to innocence.


Under the Last Dust (2000)

Lighting Operator

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)

Crew

Fiction Farm

Closer (2000)

A familiar tale about a half-remembered touch, a kiss, a look, a love which has spanned generations amidst family feuds, lies, betrayal and murder. A beautiful, ethereal spirit haunts the Loong patriarch in the twilight of his life. Is she his one true love, the one he cannot forget, whose love letter he still keeps close to his heart? Set in the rambling Loong mansion, the family vultures are gathering, and among them, a long-lost illegitimate grandson. Watch a night of passion, deceit and mystery unfold a

Haunted (1999)

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