HuM Theatre

A thought-provoking forum theatre on a hot-button issue. 'Same same but not the same'. Local Indian vs foreign talent. Hear the voices from the community as they discuss and dissect the sensitive topic of Integration in Singapore in an interactive forum theatre.&nbsp;


We Are Like This Only! (2013)

Choreographer

I Theatre

Once upon a time there was a girl called Ashputtel. You may know her as Cinderella. She's called Ashputtel because she sleeps in the ashes by the fire. Now, let us show you her story; of a stepmother, two wicked but beautiful stepsisters, a Prince, and a magical tree...

We invite you to meet her family, share her adventures and discover how she finally gets what her goodness deserves!

We have taken the 200 year-old Grimm's Folk tale, and carefully re-shaped it. With music and song, drama and comedy, a

Ashputtel (2012)

Director

Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

As part of&nbsp;Esplanade’s 10th Anniversary&nbsp;Weekend festival, we are presented with&nbsp;Casting Back, a journey into theatre history through the memories of ‘veterans’, Nora Samosir and Christina Sergeant.


Casting Back (2012)

Cast

Once upon a time there was a Little Old Woman and a Little Old Man who decided to make a gingerbread man to sweeten their day.

Little Old Woman rolled out the dough, and carefully shaped a Gingerbread Man. She put raisins for his eyes, peppermints for his teeth, and icing for the hair, gently laid him on a tray, and into the oven went the Gingerbread Man.

But the Little Old Man just could not wait… it smelled so good!

He opened the oven door a moment too soon and, out jumped the Gingerbread Man!


The Gingerbread Man (2011)

STAGES

A monologue, written by Jonathan Lim, in which Jonathan plays both Emily of Emerald Hill&nbsp;and the grandson from The Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole, in an encounter in the cemetery&nbsp;that revisits and updates these two defining Singaporean plays. Emerald Hole is a tribute to&nbsp;two of Singapore's greatest works, which reflect two vastly different sides of Singapore – the&nbsp;disenfranchised heartlander that the late playwright Kuo Pao Kun understood so well, and the&nbsp;privileged, landed and some

On This Emerald Hill (2011)

Play Den Productions

Upon her death, an Englishwoman finds herself in the Chinese Ten Courts of Hell, getting judged and punished for her sins. But while she may be dead, she’s certainly not taking it lying down. Those vicious demons and dark-faced judges, they don’t scare her. Her past, however, is another thing altogether. Join her on her journey through memory, imagination and regret, as she discovers that after a lifetime in Singapore, the Hell that greets her upon her death is no less a foreign land.

Written by award-wi

Someday, Samsara (2010)

Singapore Repertory Theatre

The Little Company

Join Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves, and his friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo, the bear in this magical world where the animals can talk. Mowgli is being taught the ways of the jungle, but one day he finally stumbles into the human world and learns a few lessons.


The Jungle Book (2009)

Movement Coach

The Theatre Practice

herself she finds again, at 4.48
hours lost, minutes numbed, seconds drip
dripping a mounting sense of medication
(but without the aggressive advertising)
weapons of mass prescription&nbsp;
herself she loses again
(i don't know what day it is)
tracing a trail of jagged fragments
corridors of wards of corridors slamming
into her filament of sanity&nbsp;


4.48 Psychosis (2009)

Wild Rice

1826. Sir Stamford Raffles lies on his deathbed, delirious with dreams and hallucinations, whilst his wife Sophia frantically records his biography. A giant Rafflesia blossom invades his bedroom; he meets his deceased first wife Olivia, and encounters a talking statue who bears prophecies of greatness.

As his life flashes before him, we witness his birth at sea, his early voyages, his triumphant founding of Singapore, and his eventual tragic downfall – with his children dead of tropical diseases, his res

The Last Temptation of Stamford Raffles (2008)

Meet Argan – a wealthy and mostly healthy man who is convinced that he’s plagued by all sorts of obscure and embarrassing diseases. He plans to marry his daughter Angelique to a doctor’s son, guaranteeing himself a lifetime of free medical care!

Alas, Angelique loves the hunky Cleante, and it’s up to the feisty maid Toinette to stop the marriage and knock some sense into Argan.

young &amp; W!LD brings you, for the first time in Singapore, a witty and wacky new production of one of the world’s favourit

The Hypochondriac (2008)

In this much anticipated final instalment of the&nbsp;ASIAN BOYS TRILOGY, Alfian Sa’at adapts Johann S Lee’s Peculiar Chris, Singapore’s first gay novel, for the stage.

1992. In their final year at Junior College, Christopher Han and his best friends – Sylvia, Kenneth and Nicholas, discover the ecstasy and pain of falling in love. Later, while serving his National Service, Chris has a relationship with his army officer, Samuel, before leaving for London for further studies.

2007. After 15 years abroad

Happy Endings: Asian Boys Vol. 3 (2007)

Mask Consultant

Movement Consultant

Hailed by critics as a 'Perennial Masterpiece,' The Glass Menagerie is 20th century playwriting at its finest; skillfully interweaving the tension of a crumbling family unit with the arresting power of dreams.

Originally set in the turmoil of Depression Era America; I Theatre vividly re-colours the story to focus on a troubled Eurasian family living in Post War Singapore.

The story revolves around Tom, a frustrated labourer who fights against his family responsibilities whilst writing poetry and dream

The Glass Menagerie (2006)

If Sleeping Beauty were to wake up in today’s Singapore, would she end up in Woodbridge? What would she find? What do a slimming centre, three Fairy God Aunties, and the Merlion have to do with the twists and turns of her new story?

W!LD RICE’s deliciously wicked holiday pantomime re-imagines the favourite fairy tale&nbsp;with such pizzazz, you will never see Sleeping Beauty the same way again.


Oi! Sleeping Beauty!! (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)

William Teo

Asia-in-Theatre Research Centre

Ramayana is an epic poem composed by Valmiki in about the 4th century B.C. in Sanskrit, and there exists centuries-old re-told versions of it in nearly every Indian language, all with their own variations of detail. I have based my dramatic adaptation on the novelist R. K. Narayan's prose version, which was in turn based on the Tamil version of the 11th century poet Kamban. In this sense, our version is in the spirit of the countless re-tellings of this epic tale both past and present.

My purpose while w

Ramayana (2002)

Luna-id

The year is 1665. The weekly death tolls are shouted in the London streets and most of the well - and well-to-do - have fled the pestilence that will kill one in five. Nearing the end of their enforced quarantine are the wealthy gentleman William Snelgrave and his subdued wife Darcy. The intrusion of two unwanted visitors however, puts the quarantine process back to day one.&nbsp;

One interloper the twelve-year-old, Morse frames the story with her narrative. Morse is spunky and smart beyond her years, bu

One Flea Spare (2002)

The Necessary Stage

Freak Sons &amp; Daughters is a tragedy at its comic best! Come face to face with the unique and strange bonds that exist between family members. It is about black sheep and oddballs, pillars of strength and curses, all within two perfectly normal families. Dangerously funny, it is a must-see for anyone who knows what it is like to have a family.


Freak Sons & Daughters (2001)

Equus, by British playwright Peter Shaffer, was premiered in 1973. It won a Broadway Tony award for Best Play, as well as the New York Drama Critics Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award.

The play has been adapted in an attempt to explore more deeply the underlying theme of how passion and worship has been lost to our modern world. The role of the teenager has evolved into that of a teenage girl because I feel this embodies more clearly the changes in our world... a girl who breaks the bonds of our pr

Equus (2000)

Have you changed?
How are you changing?
Do you know what you are changing into?

In a devised montage of drama, movement and music,&nbsp;Zoom!&nbsp;celebrates change and evolution in life - from child to teenager to adult, from geek to glam, from swaku to streetwise.

Zoom!&nbsp;also captures things which are all too familiar to us. How you always seem to have met someone somewhere, somehow, sometime in the past...&nbsp;

Or how people use designer or branded goods to hide who they really are...



Zoom! (1997)

Described as "the great story of mankind", The Mahabharata tells the story of a long and bloody war between two cousins: the Pandavas of five brothers and the Kauravas of whom there were a hundred. The power struggle ends with an enormous battle that would determine the fate of the world. The Game of Dice traces the journey of the creation of the Pandavas and Kauravas. It is a journey taken by humanity since the beginning of time. A lifetime of choices presented, each with an effect on the rest of nature. C

The Mahabharata Part I: The Game of Dice (1995)

Macbeth is categorised broadly as one of Shakespeare's Histories. However, unlike the other historical plays, history is not shown as the Grand Mechanism but rather as a nightmare. Whether mechanism or nightmare, both remain different, illustrating the same struggle for power and the crown. The different metaphors reflect different philosophies - history as a mechanism is characterised by its inevitability, whereas the nightmare paralyses and terrifies. In Macbeth, history, as well as crime, is shown throug

The Tragedy of Macbeth (1993)

Actors Theatre Circle

I wrote the first draft of MY MOTHER SAID I NEVER SHOULD in 1985, when I was&nbsp;twenty-five... and spent about three years re-writing it. The play was premiered&nbsp;in Manchester and its success was followed up by a run at the Royal Court Theatre&nbsp;in London.

I wrote it because I didn’t know of any plays about mothers and daughters,&nbsp;although we have hundreds of years worth of plays about fathers and sons, or sons&nbsp;and mothers. Yet it seems to me that a woman's relationship with her mother,

My Mother Said I Never Should (1990)

Actors Theatre Circle presents&nbsp;A Totally Fictitious Island In The Sun&nbsp;by Ovidia Yu, a totally topical, totally tropical musical revue with original music and songs by Leigh Saunter. Under the direction of Christina Sergeant,&nbsp;A Totally&nbsp;Fictitious Island In The Sun&nbsp;takes a hilarious look at the goings-on on this totally fictitious island, and traces its development!

What happens when Pearl of the Orient meets an explorer from the west? What is totally fictitious cuisine and why is 

A Totally Fictitious Island In The Sun (1990)

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How Did You Meet Tina?&nbsp;is a performance-presentation created and directed by Chong Tze Chien that traces the legacy of the late Christina Sergeant via archival footage and images as well as recreated interviews with her collaborators, friends, family and students.

Christina Sergeant (1955-2013), more affectionately known as Tina, was an accomplished and passionate actress, director, educator and mentor.

Playwright-director Chong Tze Chien knew of Tina, the much-lauded theatre practitioner, when h

Christina Sergeant

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