Nine Years Theatre

An old theatre reaches its last performance night.Two actors—A and O—find themselves sharing the stage.&nbsp;They bicker,they compete,they create,they wonder,and theywait…and wait,and wait.“We exist because they exist.”“Every play has a beginning / And an end / Life is the same.”But will the audience ever come?Playful yet meaningful, Waiting for Audience challenges us to rethink the bond between performers and spectators, drawing inspiration from physical theatre, clowning, absurdist humour and Chinese cros

Waiting For Audience (2025)

Sound Designer

The Finger Players

A celestial stone reincarnates as the scion of a wealthy aristocratic family. Baoyu, born with a jade in his mouth, is raised as the heir and Precious Jade of the clan. The heir takes centre stage in a love rivalry between his two cousins – Daiyu and Baochai, amidst the backdrop of the family’s slow financial collapse.Presented by The Finger Players,&nbsp;Dream of the Red Chamber&nbsp;is award-winning playwright and director Chong Tze Chien’s reinterpretation of one of the four greatest Chinese classical li

Dream of the Red Chamber (2024)

Pangdemonium

Once upon a time, in a marvellous multiverse of musical fairy-tale heroes and villains…The Witch, the Wolf, the Giant and the Stepmother have unleashed pandemonium on the kingdom. Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Jack (of Beanstalk fame) and the Baker assemble to avenge the evils dealt to the people. On their mission to save their world, they venture into the woods.But their path is booby-trapped with blips, as they get entrapped by Daydreams, ensnared by Desires, and enslaved by Wishes. And then things 

Into the Woods (2023)

Three incredible acrobats dream up a stunning creation that insists on co-creating with them. A mannequin faces public flogging whenever the model and seamstress fail to measure up to a cat’s superior fabric scratching skills. An eight-legged octopus dance coach receives an unexpected lesson from a four-legged cat and dog who combine their limbs in a surprising way, creating a sum greater than its parts.&nbsp;Step into ONE-TWO-SIX Cairnhill Arts Centre and embark on a journey through three whimsical and sel

Puppet Origin Stories @ ONE-TWO-SIX: Persona Paradox (2023)

Edith Podesta

K Rajagopal

Trapped in a bomb-shelter following a cataclysm, a narrator tells us the story of an apartment block in which the lives of its seemingly ordinary residents were anything but. A still-life painter ponders the permanence of objects; a husband and wife negotiate the vastness that had grown between them within the confines of their tiny apartment; an old Franciscan comes to terms with the death of his wife, and forms a relationship with a child whose life is just beginning. As they hurtle towards their inevitab

Pompeii (2023)

Sound Artist

Composer

Gateway Arts

Don’t let them see who you really are.&nbsp;A funny yet moving original pop musical, The Monster in the Mirror follows the journey of Jane, an average school girl navigating the stressful world of teenage politics and social media drama. She is bullied in school, scolded at home, and tormented by the self-critical voice in her head. That is, until she receives a magic mirror from a flamboyant Fairy God Delivery Beng. She peers into this mirror and finds herself face to face with someone who has been living 

The Monster in the Mirror (2023)

Assistant Sound Engineer

Jo Tan

Chong Tze Chien

Val is the deejay on a Singapore morning radio show - 'The Happy Place on One One Oh Point Oh'. She is interviewing her old friend Estee, now an Instagram political poet writing about pressing social issues. But as their chirpy on-air conversation quickly spirals into a heated and emotional debate on their significance and place in society, and they deploy all available verbal ammunition and even uncover buried secrets to best each other, there are several questions that both refuse to answer: Where is Val’

Happy Place (2023)

Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

After smashing her work computer in the office pantry in an uncharacteristic fit of rage, Risa is now sat in a room with Dr Robert, her newly acquired therapist. She cannot go back to how she was living before. Risa must look back on her own life to look forward. What caused her to end up at this exact spot?Was it her Catholic ah ma whose funeral she skipped, her ex-girlfriend whom she loved deeply but broke up with, or her tendency to feel too much? Or maybe... something else entirely?This is a story about

I am trying to say something true (2023)

Meet Emma – professional actor, consummate performer, chameleon-like make-believer.Meet Emma – pathological pretender, compulsive liar, hopeless addict.&nbsp;Committed to&nbsp;rehab, she desperately clings on to her alter egos and imagined personas, as her world spirals into a surreal abyss. Friends, family members and fellow addicts morph into figments of fantasy, her sense of self fragments, and she is forced to ask: which version of me is the real me?&nbsp;Together with Emma, we embark on a thrilling, tr

People, Places & Things (2023)

Michelle Tan

6-year-old Shan has always wanted to be an explorer. In the comfort of her home surrounded by books, paper and pencils, she creates worlds filled with her favourite things and animals that dream. Soon, she is about to discover a new world that she has never encountered before—school. But she is an explorer, and an explorer with the right tools has no reason to be scared! So armed with her handy torchlight and a head full of stories, Shan discovers that all she needs to find her new place in the world is a l

The Beginning of Anything (2023)

The Necessary Stage

Three queer Singaporean men cast a little gay spell, don their bridal veils, and embark on a whirlwind journey towards matrimony. They dream through the past, the present and an imagined future to discover what a big, fat, fabulously gay wedding would look like for them!In a country where the legal right to marriage is denied to the queer community, these individuals navigate the political, social, cultural, and personal reality of their lives, along with saying “yes” to whimsical wedding fantasies. “Always

Never The Bride (2023)

A Yagnya

Caught between traditional Indian arranged marriage and modern dating, Girl is made an unwilling participant of a bizarre game show. She is thrown around the space by Man, who morphs into everything from a Bollywood star, to a questionable fortune teller, to even Girl's Mother who has bought into The Patriarchy™ and thinks her daughter will never find happiness without getting married.Between 5 Cows and the Deep Blue Sea...follows Girl as she struggles to come to terms with her identity, and battles with so

Between 5 Cows and the Deep Blue Sea... (2022)

Show Control

Wild Rice

Pulau Ujong, or “Island at the End”, is one of the oldest recorded names for Singapore. But what was it like at the beginning, before humans started transforming the landscape? What lifeforms once filled its rainforests and rivers, and which ones are now extinct? With temperatures soaring twice as fast as the rest of the world, what will this island’s future look like?Written with heartfelt insight by award-winning playwright Alfian Sa’at,&nbsp;Pulau Ujong&nbsp;is a riveting piece of documentary theatre fea

Pulau Ujong (2022)

Singapore Repertory Theatre

One of the most successful Singaporean shows of all-time,&nbsp;The LKY Musical,&nbsp;returns this September.Presented by Aiwei and Singapore Repertory Theatre, this&nbsp;will be the first large-scale musical to take place here in over two years!Watched by over 50,000 people during its first run in 2015, this home-grown&nbsp;musical tells Lee Kuan Yew’s story -&nbsp;from his student days in 1941 to Singapore’s independence in 1965.&nbsp;Starring&nbsp;Adrian Pang&nbsp;and&nbsp;Kit Chan, with music by&nbsp;Dic

The LKY Musical (2022)

Associate Sound Designer

Wei Collective

Why do we feel rootless?
Why do we feel like aliens on our land?

We created man-made things to protect ourselves from nature. Yet because of this, we are alienated from nature.

We are shaken, unplugged— how do we find our centre?

Through the relationship between man and sea, we seek to discover what it means to be an intricate part of nature. In be-ing, we attempt to draw strength from nature, and from that source, we discover how to be at ease in the sea of life.

In this rendition, 微 Wei Colle

Being 息在 (2022)

3 Actors. 37 plays. 97 minutes.&nbsp;It’s Shakespeare at its funniest! Experience Shakespeare like never before as SRT presents London’s longest-running comedy, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the best bits of the Bard’s plays. Join in the fun and merriment as three actors weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare’s 37 comedies, histories, and tragedies in one wild 97-minute ride that will leave you breathless with laughter.&nbsp;“Rollicki

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2021)

From award-winning playwright Thomas Lim (Grandmother Tongue, Supervision) comes Straight Acting, a hopeful, heartfelt comedy about the drama of trying to keep things straight... when you’re anything but.

All Olivia and Jaime want to do is start a family and make a life together&nbsp;– something they can’t easily do in straight-laced Singapore. To make
the system work for them, Olivia and Jaime get their gay best friends, Russell and Jia Ming, in on the act. Together, they pretend to be two happy, heter

Straight Acting (2021)

In 1879, scientific genius Thomas Edison successfully created the world's first practical incandescent bulb. He was about to light up New York and the entire world, using his Direct Current electrical system. Along came another inventor Nikola Tesla who insisted that his Alternating Current electrical system was superior to Edison's. A battle ensued, as ambitions and aspirations clashed in this "War of Currents". What drove these great minds to achieve the impossible, and what must they learn to sacrifice i

Electrify My World (2021)

Sound Composer

Every day, we are inundated with dire consequences of the climate emergency.

In the face of this threat to humanity, what do we do? Recycle? Switch to environmentally-friendly products? Be a vegan? Stop having children? What can we do—and do our actions even matter?

Why do we have such different responses to climate change? What makes one a denialist, or another to commit acts of civil disobedience in the name of climate justice?

Can we as individuals, and collectively, affect change? Or will polit

The Year of No Return (2021)

A man stabs an MP at a Meet the People Session. But this is not their story.

It is the story of the man’s girlfriend, an Indonesian maid who wants to get married and become a Singapore citizen. It is the story of the MP’s wife, who tries to cope with her husband’s injury and the media spotlight. It is the story of the maid’s employer, who is also struggling with her own tragedy.

These three women may mean nothing to each other, but they need one another to survive.

The maid, the employer and the MP

Model Citizens (2021)

The Aesthetic Project

'A man waiting for the leaves to fall' is a digital performative narration that chronicles the pivotal events in a man’s life. This 20-minute long digital production explores the relationship of the film medium within a new theatre paradigm where theatrical design takes centerstage as characters.Supported by the National Arts Council Digital Presentation Grant, The Aesthetic Project focuses on the theatrical design language intersecting with screen medium to create a new experience, in the absence of dialog

A man waiting for the leaves to fall (2021)

Conceptualizer

They are not just convicts of the colony, they are to be citizens of the new world.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 Gover

First Fleet (2021)

In a Singapore where dialects have been losing relevance for generations,&nbsp;Grandmother Tongue&nbsp;traces a young man’s struggle to connect with his 84-year-old Teochew-speaking grandmother.

He teaches her to use a mobile phone. He helps her buy her favourite brand of soya sauce. He visits her in hospital after a fall. Along the way, he begins to understand just what it means to spend decades in linguistic and cultural exile.

Back by popular demand after two sell-out runs, Thomas Lim’s funny, insi

Grandmother Tongue (2021)

Su-Lin’s mother, Molly, considers herself a collector. To her, everything has a story, and a place in her home. When Su-Lin’s American boyfriend asks to visit, this sets mother and daughter on a collision course.Why does Molly feel the need to surround herself with all&nbsp;of her belongings? What does Su-Lin learn when she digs through things that she’s usually forbidden to touch? And can the relationship between Molly and Su-Lin survive coming face-to-face with their deepest, darkest secrets?Humorous and 

Mine (2020)

Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts

“Everyone should have a chance to be King. Now, it’s my turn."

Based on the famous 16th-century epic novel by Wu Cheng’en, this is an action-packed tale of the roguish Monkey King and his exploits in a Journey To Nowhere.

Ingenious, witty, violent and impatient, Monkey has been imprisoned because of the chaos he has wrought in heaven. To be redeemed, he must guide the Buddhist monk Tripitaka on a mystical quest. Together with lovesick Pigsy, they encounter demons, spirits, dragons and gods on what see

Journey To Nowhere (2020)

Tan Shou Chen

Joel Tan

If you can believe it, it is millennia in the future. You are walking amongst ancient ruins. A koel calls. You hear ghosts. A Musician says his goodbyes. A Lover's heart breaks. These are the psychic traces of a city long gone.A Bird Calls You To Moscow is an audio drama to be experienced on the move. Across three episodes and accompanied by the piano music of Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, you are invited to see, hear and feel, as the role requires, and simply walk with yourself.The musical works featured i

A Bird Calls You To Moscow (2020)

First Fleet《第一舰队》(2020)

GroundZ-0 原。空間

It's Friday night. Everyone is out painting the town red. A car in a secluded spot near a bar quietly holds a bloodied corpse. This looks like a murder, but nothing is as it seems.A high-ranking police officer, a dedicated educator and an award-winning entrepreneur cross paths in the bar. The chance encounter leads these three individuals down a rabbit hole that ends in blood. Was it a murder or a suicide? An act of self-defence or a retaliation to a rape?As everyone presents their testimony to the jury, th

Prism of Truth《眾相》(2020)

Four students drop a birthday surprise on their teacher Elena, but the true intention of their visit is unveiled when they attempt to persuade her to hand over the key to the safe where their exam papers are being kept. For the sake of their academic progress, they must falsify their scores; for the sake of their futures, excuses are made to justify their actions. The teacher finds herself in a predicament when her students begin coercing her. To stop them from making further mistakes, Elena stands firm and

Dear Elena (2019)

STRANGER 艺族

A woman awakes and finds herself in the underworld, dead. As if that isn't enough, she learns that she needs to rush through her application for reincarnation. She revisits life-changing episodes of her life, only to find out that she has a knot in her heart, one that has been forgotten and buried in her mind ...waiting to be untied.

KNOTS is an original production created by the drama group, STRANGER. Made up of six young artists, STRANGER hopes to tell a story that depicts language politics and societa

Knots (2019)

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)

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)

Join us on an exciting after-hours adventure and uncover hidden tales behind every step and stone of the Gallery’s magnificent building. As you travel through its passageways, encounter a host of characters from the past––from those who had a hand in designing and building the City Hall and Former Supreme Court, to significant historical figures who inhabited the space in all its former glory. Listen to their tales and bring a piece of history home with you.


Shadows in the Walls (2019)

Chong Gua Khee

Tan Liting

The Tortoise and the Hare&nbsp;is a well-known folk story with many different versions.&nbsp;

A grandmother and her grandson collide with each other over the stories that each tells, one championing the importance of stories and the other questioning the impact stories can have. Will they ever agree?

Embark on a journey to revisit familiar tales that we grew up with, question what they mean, and expect surprises as well as an alternate ending or two in this heartwarming theatre performance.


Tortoise Tales (2018)

A seller peddles a great and undiscovered artwork allegedly painted by Adolf Hitler himself. The controversial but artistically ground-breaking work could potentially shock the art world and rewrite history. Behind this art work lies a greater and incredible story about the seller’s Grandfather -&nbsp;a Jewish simpleton who was mistakenly tried as a Nazi war criminal for owning this Hitler painting.

Hoping to authenticate the work, raise its value and restore her grandfather’s good name, the seller hawks

Framed, by Adolf (2018)

Sound Associate

A literary hermit with unfulfilled ambitions is abused by a corrupt official.

A shady foreign lady seeks to rent a room to run an equally shady massage parlor.

A middle-aged widower hires an alluring tutor to help his dim-witted son, who has yet to graduate after more than 20 years.

In a house with an expired lease,&nbsp;
A profanity-spewing dog
And a racy fox spirit idol&nbsp;
Bear witness to all that transpires

Man or ghost? Fox or demon?
Was it all real or false? Truth or illusion?

Ins

Citizen Dog (2018)

Inspired by images of the G20 and NATO summits, this production sees Shakespeare's political thriller brought to life against a backdrop of modern-day international relations and global current affairs.

Ambition, power, and greed collide as the leaders of the R.O.M.E. 7 countries gather for a summit. It's time for them to decide who their allies really are. Trouble brews as the weather grows disturbingly ominous, and plots to assassinate the ever-ambitious Caesar are hatched. Are Caesar's conspirators tr

Julius Caesar (2018)

In The Spirits Play, five Japanese spirits – a General, a Man, a Mother, a Girl and a Poet – recollect their life experiences in the Second World War. They are thrown into turmoil in their attempt to understand the war and its atrocities that were inflicted upon them not only by the foreign enemy but also by their own government and army. A notable work in Singapore theatre, The Spirits Play poignantly depicts the agony, guilt and turmoil left in the aftermath of war.


The Spirits Play (2017)

Sound Assistant

“When is life worth living; when is death worth celebrating?”

The notion of death and reincarnation has fascinated mankind’s consciousness, religions and literature since time immemorial.

Poop! chronicles the aftermath of a suicide: A GRANDMOTHER bargains with divine powers to release her SON’S soul from hell. Failing which, she brings him home; she takes over the reins of bringing up her GRANDDAUGHTER, while keeping her DAUGHTER-IN-LAW at bay, saving the GRANDDAUGHTER all for herself She tries to ins

Poop! (2017)

Tracie Pang

Adrian Pang

Stephanie Street

The year is 2021. Climate change is wreaking havoc across the&nbsp;globe, “Brexit” is causing chaos all over Europe and Donald&nbsp;Trump has been re-elected United States president for a second&nbsp;term. In the wake of escalating wars in the Middle East, famine in&nbsp;West Africa and relentless terrorist attacks by radical extremists,&nbsp;the United Kingdom - and many nations around the world - has&nbsp;enforced a ban on all&nbsp;immigration.

With the coastline around him and life as he knows it crum

Dragonflies (2017)

Two best friends and fellow actors perform the first scene of a play and decide to change it. As fiction and truth become interwoven, they share stories, secrets and sweets. A meditative play about the things you lose and the things you search for in life,&nbsp;Whale Fall&nbsp;explores the redemptive power of art and friendship.&nbsp;


Whale Fall (2017)

Itsy Bitsy Spider has galvanised his eight-legged army to terrorise the characters in the nursery rhyme world. In comes an unlikely hero, a grandfather who’s looking for his grandson. In his search, Grandpa is reacquainted with familiar and colourful friends from the nursery rhymes that he used to sing to his grandson. Unwittingly, he ends up being their hero, the chosen one against the spiders. To save his newfound friends from the eight-legged terror, an epic war ensues between the spiders, and his assemb

ITSY - The Musical (2017)

Production Engineer

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)

Toy Factory Productions Limited

Aman, an urban city development official, questions his work of demolishing old historical buildings to make way for new cityscape. Faced with the task of explaining the impending demolition of the city's oldest heritage 'The Surrounding City', Aman experiences the wrath of the city, despair of her dwellers and confronts his personal ambivalence about the price of material gains.


Prism (2017)

In real life, there are no rehearsals and no second takes.

Actor, Forty&nbsp;features Golden Horse Award-winner Yeo Yann Yann returning to the Chinese theatre stage in a special&nbsp;Huayi&nbsp;commission.&nbsp;

This new original monologue sees Yeo collaborating with Cultural Medallion recipients, director Alvin Tan and playwright Haresh Sharma of The Necessary Stage. Candid and conversational, it examines the myriad identities that we take on and cast off in life - just as an actor does when she adop

Actor, Forty (2017)

Sound Engineer

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)

The Theatre Practice

If Shakespeare was a female&nbsp;Kunqu&nbsp;artist from Nanking or a female physical theatre artist from Bangkok and working today, how would the characters of Gertrude and Ophelia in&nbsp;Hamlet&nbsp;be written and performed differently? How would this difference reflect and affect our societies?

Developed in a one week rehearsal at B-Floor Theatre in Bangkok,&nbsp;⇄Gertrude⇄Ophelia⇄ is a twenty-minute non-verbal performance structured within Hong Kong director Danny Yung's acclaimed "One Table Two Chai

⇄Gertrude⇄Ophelia⇄ (2016)

Over the last few years, the more I get to know about&nbsp;Kunqu&nbsp;and its artists, the more I see its resemblance to Zheng He and his plight. The body of the&nbsp;Kunqu&nbsp;artist has survived the past 600 years - every expression, gesture and movement - they made up its form, which is also its content. However, the traditional artists inherited this craft from their forebears, through a very strict and controlled training which can be somewhat cruel - "Don't ask, just do it ten thousand times and it'l

Descendants 600 (2016)

"The time is out of joint - O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!" -&nbsp;Hamlet

Tasked with the mission to avenge his father, the orphaned prince Hamlet is no longer a free individual but the seed for revenge; Othello, influenced by his blood lineage and skin colour, is lost in his jealousy; Cordelia's love for her father Lear is misunderstood as a plot to take away his inheritance, which results in Lear's oppression of his daughter.

The avenging orphan, the lost descendants, the bani

Descendants 400 (2016)

I love to be an actor
I love to be in the scene
But what if the scene doesn’t love me back?
What’s the problem?
Is it them?
Or is it me?
What if I am not cut out for it?
Do I stay?
Do I go?
Or is it all wishful thinking on my part right from the start?

Co-devised by the cast, Tan Liting presents a confessional theatre piece featuring the voices of young acting professionals and theatre veterans sharing why they love what they do, even when the odds are against them.

The work, based on intervi

The Truth About Lying: Heresy and Common Sense for the Theatre (2016)

What is nothing?
What is being?
What is being from nothing?

How to go from nothing to being?
How to go from being to nothing?

To imagine nothing, does that invalidate its nothingness?
To discuss nothing, does that also invalidate its nothingness?
To write of nothing, does that become being?

Is it impossible to speak of nothing?&nbsp;


Nothing (2015)

Two years ago, I was in the courtyard of Nanjing Kun Opera Theatre, and happened to chat with a few young Kun Opera actors about Zheng He. The pursuit of one's goals, the difficulties of reality, the yearning for foreign lands, and the acknowledgment of fundamental desires. This was what I felt at that time: For some, their hearts may no longer be present, yet they confine themselves in isolation; for others, they may remain in the same place, yet they have traversed a great distance. Under the sturdy roof 

Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral - Was (2015)

“One table. Two chairs. Twenty minutes. Two performers.” – The rules are simple. The results, not that simple.&nbsp;

“One table two chairs” is the most basic staging used in traditional Chinese opera. When adapted by actors in their performance, the spatial possibilities are infinite. Every year, we invite artists from different background and disciplines to work on new experimental works. These performances will explore the relationship between the traditional and the contemporary arts through their mul

1 Table 2 Chairs Experimental Series 2015

Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral - Is (2015)

Tracing the life story of Madam Oon Ah Chiam,&nbsp;Titoudao&nbsp;portrays the struggles of this petite lady with big dreams, fighting against despairing personal states of poverty, gender inequality and shadowed marital vexations. Above all, invisible shackles from the diminishing state of her craft will confront all the strength and zeal that culminate in this inspirational tale of the person behind her most iconic character.&nbsp;

The stage shifts between Mdm Oon's painful backstory and her mesmerizing

Titoudao (2015)

Drama Box

We all share the common fate that one day we will die. Though death is a natural part of life, many fear discussing it. Welcome to&nbsp;BOTH SIDES, NOW&nbsp;– a fair on Living with Dying. We invite you to explore topics of living and dying through fun and creative activities, imagine the end of life's journey, and be empowered to express your own end-of-life choices.

This interactive performance tells the story of two families struggling to cope as they confront illness and death. Audience members are in

Exit (2014)

A man goes in search of his hometown in China with only the scantiest clues to go on. His grandmother could only remember the name of a distant relative, who may or may not be alive in China.

With only that name, the man trawls through the internet for information and zeros in on a place which may or may not be his grandfather’s hometown. The man, so fixated on finding out the truth, may or may not find what he is searching for in the first place.

Director, playwright and actor, Oliver Chong, delivers

Roots (2012)

Assistant Sound Designer

In the beginning of this year, at the start of the Kuo Pao Kun Festival 2012, Liu Xiaoyi together with 10 young performers devised and created a site-specific work within the creative cocoon of the Stamford Arts Centre. To bring the festival to a close, Liu will now work with 10 veteran performers in&nbsp;11 - Kuo Pao Kun Devised Again.

They will draw inspiration from a wealth of Kuo's scripts, papers, speeches, ideologies and incidents in Kuo's life to create a new devised presentation. Some of the perf

11: Kuo Pao Kun Devised Again (2012)

A little girl is digging a hole in the ground, waiting to bury her head in it when the hole is deep enough.

This Theatre-In-Education (TIE) performance combines entertainment (performance) and education (interactive activities) to investigate the phenomenon of adolescent depression.

The stress of modern life and societal pressures are challenging for our youth, who are still finding their path in life and developing their sense of identity. Through this programme, we hope to empower students to take p

Girl in the White Sand Box (2012)

Platform 65

Rites &amp; Regulations&nbsp;is a theatre double bill featuring Lin Mingyu's aWake&nbsp;and Mok&nbsp;Cui Yin's adaptation of The Coffin is Too Big for the Hole&nbsp;by Kuo Pao Kun. The show&nbsp;explores different aspects of death, life, and the funerary experience in a city with no&nbsp;room for exceptions, where the living live in standard-sized homes, and the dead rest&nbsp;in standard-sized graves.

An immersive theatrical experience where narrative, lighting, sound, smells,&nbsp;movement, and project

Rites & Regulations (2012)

Set Designer

This story takes place in&nbsp;Weizhuang,&nbsp;or the village of the future. It is a picturesque village - blue skies, fertile plains and the air (with its lingering scent of the earth) seems to be caressing the face of every fortunate soul.

Ah Q, or rather the remnants of Ah Q lives here. The revolution has ended (or has it?) and it is said that Ah Q was executed. Did he really die?

Some say he has not died. He has changed his appearance and made his fortune in the city!
Some say he cannot die. He h

The Story After Ah Q (2011)

Sound Coordinator

Sound Operator

T:>Works (TheatreWorks)

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)

Stage Crew

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)

A little girl is being ostracised by the society because of her apperance.
A middle-aged man suffers from depression but is in constant denial of it.
An elderly lady loses a large part of her memory due to dementia.

These characters are representations of hte marginalised people we see around us everyday, people whom some of us have chosen to neglect or ignore.

A.I.D (Angels in Disguise) is a community play which attempts to awaken our senses and rekindle our human spirit.


A.I.D. (Angels in Disguise) (2010)

Production Manager

To truly love a land, one must first unearth the beauty buried in its sorrows.

On a strange and yet familiar city-island, a group of travellers drift about, but are ever-so ready to fulfil their obligations in life. They breathe but they can’t fill the void within. A howl is heard from afar, sensual and primitive. The travellers embark on a journey in search of this calling.

suitCASES is a multidisciplinary performance which attempts to unravel the secrets of our lands. Expect surprises.


suitCASES (2010)

Sound Art Coordinator

Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral,&nbsp;the seminal script written by Kuo Pao Kun, the late dramatist and founder of The Theatre Practice is one of Singapore's most iconic representations of contemporary theatre. The material success of Ming dynasty eunuch Zheng He, in juxtaposition to his physical and psychological abjectness becomes a powerful theatrical metaphor for the repression and displacement of the modern man. Performed to critical acclaim throughout the world, Zheng He's journey into himself is un

Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral (2010)

Assistant Stage Manager

Inspired by the colourful folk stories of Qing dynasty classic&nbsp;The Strange Tales of Liao Zhai, Liao Zhai Rocks!&nbsp;vamps up all things period and brings you into a fantastical world of captivating characters. The scholar, Sang Xiao, wins the affections of Ying Ning, a vixen spirit, only to fall for the ploy of a devious ghost. But when he is poisoned and cast into the underworld, it is the vixen spirit who, driven by true love, embarks on a perilous journey to save him...

Liao Zhai Rocks!&nbsp;bri

Liao Zhai Rocks! (2010)

Stage Assistant

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Maha Moggallana (2010)

Crew

Cat, Lost &amp; Found finds its charm in the little things that most of us wouldn’t give a second look. The story about a salesman who falls in love with an usher in a movie theatre is a modern day fairy tale that has weird and wonderful characters permeating the stage. A salesman falls in love with the usher who is besotted with a stray cat in the cinema. Meanwhile, the hero of the movie showing in the theatre loses the plot and enters real life to find his brother’s murderer, leaving his hapless wife wait

Cat, Lost & Found (2009)

Multimedia Operator

A warrior and his wife are ambushed by a bandit in a bamboo grove. The warrior is slain. His wife, raped. A hundred years later, at the ruins of the Rashomon, a medium calls out to the lost souls. Will the truth be known?


Rashomon (2009)

The winter of death numbs a lover’s pain,
The autumn of dreams lies awake in vain,
The summer of life sings its passing song,
And spring comes again… with courage to hope, and go on.

"If there are seasons I would see snow, but not around here..."&nbsp;

After the demise of his girlfriend Xiao Jing, A-Le packs up to pursue his musical ambitions in New York. There he meets the easy-going A-Qiang, a fellow dream hunter from Singapore, who gets him a job at a restaurant. On a particular take-out deliver

If There're Seasons... (2009)

Follow-Spot Operator

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Corporate conglomerate ARC has reached out to the public in a bid to decipher a mysterious databank that has surfaced on their Artificial Intelligence (AI) system named J.O.A.N.. Your profiling skills are urgently required to halt this potential international crisis.

Attempts: Singapore&nbsp;is an immersive theatrical experience that draws inspiration from Martin Crimp’s&nbsp;Attempts on Her Life. It takes audience-participants through a non-linear narrative pieced together through the accounts of variou

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