The Necessary Stage

For Faith (Hossan Leong) and Hope (Kumar), the New Year is just another day. But when an old friend shows up suddenly, their lives are turned upside down. They find themselves embroiled with spies, childhood trauma and GENDER PRONOUNS.It's been almost 20 years since the gang met up. Will they be able to let go of the ghosts from their past? Will they be able to identify as ELDERLY? What world is this where the GAYBOURS are banging, the Health HOMOTION Board speaks the truth and MINISTRY OF NUCLEAR FAMILIES 

Old Gaze (2023)

Assistant Stage Manager

Nine Years Theatre

A long hidden secret rises to the fore— and with it, cracks begin to appear in the familial ties between a mother and her three daughters. Are the bonds between them strong enough to weather this impending crisis?

Forced into retirement due to her ailing health, a veteran film and TV actress finds herself missing the glitz and the attention. These days, actress Lin Li Qing occupies her time thinking up ways to battle boredom, and nagging at her three daughters for not spending enough time with her. The e

Between You and Me (2022)

The award-winning ensembles of Singapore’s Nine Years Theatre and the SITI Company from New York join hands to present this hybrid retelling of Anton Chekhov’s classic play&nbsp;Three Sisters.

Three Sisters, by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, stands as one of the most outstanding plays of his career. Olga, Masha, and Irina – the titular sisters - fritter away their lives in a provincial town, while they dream of returning to the cosmopolitan city where&nbsp;they grew up.

Chronicling their tangled re

Three Sisters (2021)

The city of Thebes is suffering under a devastating pandemic. President Oedipus vows to put an end to the crisis and help restore the city, like he once did before. Upon consulting the Oracle, the solution is clear. Find the murderer of their previous leader, Laius. So begins a manhunt for the city’s most wanted. But as the investigation starts, secrets from the past resurface.&nbsp;

In a thrilling modern re-telling of the great Sophoclean tragedy,&nbsp;Oedipus, delves deep into how man deals with the fa

Oedipus (2021)

Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre

Nine Years Theatre and Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre jointly present to you First Fleet. The audience will be seated on the stage of the Cultural Centre’s auditorium, as they set sail with the players to explore the relationships between theatre and humanity.

The year is 1787. The First Fleet of the British Empire sets sail for Australia with a group of convicts aboard, to establish a penal colony. Along the way, the Governor instructs one of his lieutenants to rehearse a play with the convicts, with

First Fleet (2019)

Wild Rice

This holiday season, W!LD RICE brings you its heartwarming, hilarious take on Charles Dickens' classic tale about love, compassion and the spirit of giving!

S.K. Loo's All-In-One app has made him the richest businessman in town. To him, only money matters. Kindness? Forget it. Generosity? Never heard of it? And Christmas? #BAHHUMBUG!&nbsp;

He's determined to spend Christmas as he always has - holed up in his penthouse, dreaming of hostile takeovers and retrenching staff.&nbsp;

But this Christmas is

A $ingapore Carol (2018)

Stage Assistant

A collaboration between Macau Arts Festival 2018 and Nine Years Theatre, to be performed in Macau and Singapore.

Artistic director of Nine Years Theatre, Nelson Chia, leads a team of actors and designers from Macau and Singapore in a re-imagination of Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s most influential character “Miss Julie”. Together, they will create the new work&nbsp;Pissed Julie.

How are the frustrations and hopes of Miss Julie, who lived in a European estate in the 19th Century, relevant to t

Pissed Julie (2018)

Administration Executive

Graphic Designer

T.H.E Dance Company

Cut Kafka!&nbsp;is a collaborative work between T.H.E Dance Company (T.H.E) and Nine Years Theatre (NYT), inspired by Franz Kafka’s life and works. The early drafts of the script were inspired by a number of different texts by or about Kafka—The Metamorphosis,&nbsp;The Trial,&nbsp;The Castle,&nbsp;The Hunger Artist, and personal letters addressed to his father—which were researched by writer and performer Neo Hai Bin. These texts were researched based on the initial ideas and framework laid down by co-direc

Cut Kafka! (2018)

Front of House Coordinator

The Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole is centred on a man who has been tasked to oversee the funeral of his grandfather. It emerges that the grand coffin is too large to fit into the standard-sized grave that has been dug at the cemetery, so the man ends up fighting an uphill battle against government bureaucracy.


The Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole (2017)

Stage Manager

No Parking On Odd Days and The Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole are two of late theatre doyen Kuo Pao Kun’s most famous monologues. Both works have been staged in English and Mandarin numerous times since they were written in the mid-1980s. In Dialects &amp; Dialectics, Nelson Chia – the artistic director of Nine Years Theatre – works with actors Hang Qian Chou and Tay Kong Hui to explore the cultural sentiments and grassroots sensibilities of these plays by staging them in Chinese dialects. Come catch this d

Double Bill: No Parking On Odd Days & The Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole (2017)

No Parking On Odd Days examines the rigidity — and sometimes absurdity — of bureaucracy through a series of confrontations that a man has with the authorities over parking tickets.


No Parking On Odd Days (2017)

Sound Operator

10-year-old Eric enjoyed visiting the home of his neighbours, Habiba and Ismail. The couple, who was so fond of him, treated him like their own child. In the embrace of this warm relationship, Eric felt cared for and loved. To his young mind, the door to Habiba and Ismail’s house was a gateway to paradise. Fast forward 20 years, Eric is now 30 and has returned to his childhood home to visit his neighbours, only to uncover a shocking secret that has lain hidden in the house where he spent so many happy hours

Fundamentally Happy (2017)

SIFA is proud to open its 2017 edition with Art Studio, a Singapore-Mandarin theatre commission performed with English surtitles. Set against the backdrop of Singapore's changing landscape from the 1960s to the new millennium, Art Studio begins with the story of a young school drop-out, Ji Zong, who is coerced by his friend to become a model for life drawing by a group of artists.

From that point on, the narrative branches out, weaving the lives of these wildly disparate artists into a web of intriguing 

Art Studio (2017)

Mr. Lee wants to write a memoir about his political life, while Mrs. Lee cannot forget how they fell in love by the sea.

Mdm. Tan is on her way to a date that is 60 years late, but Old Kim worries that he will not reply to all those letters in time.

Old Max holds a solo concert in his heart as Er Ma captures the joyful tears in his camera.

Mdm. Teng pretties herself in front of a mirror all day, and Xiao Ding loves a good banter with anyone who would listen.

Eight senior citizens converge in a r

Red Sky (2016)

Front of House Manager

Dream Academy

Dream Academy presents a brand new show,&nbsp;MEENAH AND CHEENAH!&nbsp;Catch two of Singapore’s funniest ladies,&nbsp;Siti Khalijah&nbsp;(Best Of, The Noose, Model Citizens) and&nbsp;Judee Tan&nbsp;(Dr. Teo Chew Moi, The Noose), in their criss cross multicultural teh tarik bubble tea champalang nonsense! The hysterical duo will take on a slew of instantly-recognisable Singaporean characters – a pair of secondary-school delinquents, the Makcik and her Ah Soh best friend and more!&nbsp;MEENAH AND CHEENAH&nbsp

Meenah and Cheenah (2016)

Surtitle Operator

From the sea comes a red demon. Certain that the demon is here to devour humans, the villagers are in fear. By the sea live three characters -- A woman, her brother, the village idiot, and a man who gets jealous easily. Miraculously, the trio find themselves communicating with the demon despite not speaking its language. Moreover, they realize it is here on a mission. Meanwhile, the villagers march, torches in hand, ready to kill the demon...

Written by acclaimed Japanese playwright Noda Hideki and direc

Red Demon (2016)

At the edge of a city, near the end of autumn, a group of people, struggling to survive the hardships of daily living, spends nights at a rental lodge for the poor. Among them we find a pot-mender, a busker, a thief, a retired actor, a prostitute, etc. They drink to pass the days. Some of them have long given up on life while others hold on to unrealistic dreams. One day, an old man arrives. He seems to stir up new hopes in the hearts of these people who dwell at the lowest rungs of society. Or are these ho

The Lower Depths (2015)

Intern

Singapore Repertory Theatre

The play begins on the deck of a violent ship at sea in the middle of a violent tempest. Amid loud sounds of thunder and flashes of lightning, the sailors fight to bring down the sails in order to control the ship. The passengers, Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, and Ferinand, come on deck to see what is happening, but the sailors complain that they interfere with their work and make more noise than the storm. Soon all appears lost as the ship breaks apart. The passengers and crew believe they are about to drown

The Tempest (2015)

Assistant Director

The mischievously funny Dim Sum Dollies® are back with more delicious satire and a wickedly candid take on part 2 of The History of Singapore.

Singapore is almost 50 and it’s time to take stock: Who did what, when, how and to whom? Goodbye pre-­1965 B.C. years (‘Before Crying’)! The Dollies are doing a new song and dance about our A.D. years (‘After Drying’… the tears of separation, that is).

To keep up with the LIGHTNING quick changes on our little island, the Dollies will make lightning quick costum

Dim Sum Dollies: The History of Singapore Part 2 (2014)

In October 1998, Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. Five weeks later, Moises Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, and over the course of the next year, conducted more than 200 interviews with people of the town. From these interviews they wrote the play The Laramie Project, a chronicle of the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the murder. The Laramie Project is one of the most

The Laramie Project (2014)

Director

Othello opens on a street in Venice, where lago, an ensign in the Venetian army, is arguing with Roderigo, who paid lago to help him win the beautiful Desdemona's hand in marriage. Rumour has it that Desdemona has secretly married Othello, lago's general, instead. Roderigo is furios. lago confides in him that he, too, hates Othello, because the general promoted Michael Cassio to the position of lieutenant instead of lago himself. Together, the two men decide to reveal the marriage between Othello and Desdem

Othello (2013)

Assistant to Director

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)

Celebrations are planned to mark the marriage of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Egeus brings his rebellious daughter Hermia in front of the Duke. She is refusing to marry Demetrius, her father's choice, because she is in love with Lysander. The Duke orders Hermia to obey her father or, according to Athenian law, she must face death or enter a convent. Hermia and Lysander decide to elope that night. They confide their plan to their friend Helena and she, in love with Demetrius 

A Midsummer Night's Dream (2007)

Cast

Ensemble

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No Parking On Odd Days&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole&nbsp;are two of late theatre doyen Kuo Pao Kun’s most famous monologues. Both works have been staged in English and Mandarin numerous times since they were written in the mid-1980s. In&nbsp;Dialects &amp; Dialectics, Nelson Chia – the artistic director of Nine Years Theatre – works with actors Hang Qian Chou and Tay Kong Hui to explore the cultural sentiments and grassroots sensibilities of these plays by staging them in Chinese dialect

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