AGAM Theatre Lab

Singapore, 1942. In a world where the Japanese occupation casts a long, oppressive shadow, a band of misfits unites for a clandestine undertaking: Mission Malligapoo.What starts as a slapstick rebellion soon spirals into a hilariously dark journey of self-discovery and existential musings. As each character’s quirky past collides, they devise a plan that could either ignite a spark of hope or set off a chain reaction of chaos that might just take down the entire city.Expect unexpected betrayals, spirited bi

Mission Malligapoo (2025)

Lighting Designer

Wild Rice

It’s 1993, and 16-year-old Candice, in her nice house in her nice neighbourhood in Serangoon Gardens, wonders why the city around her seems so sleepy and lame compared to the world she glimpses in MTV and her music magazines – pictures roiling with sex, drugs, and rebellion.When Candice’s mum burns all her tapes and magazines in a fit of moral panic, Candice finally snaps and embarks on a night-long bender to end all benders. In the darkness, she sees the Singapore she’s been craving all this time: punks in

The Serangoon Gardens Techno Party of 1993 (2025)

A hotel in Singapore is opened at the turn of the century, when the island is still a jewel in the crown of the British Empire. Each day, new faces appear and swiftly disappear – guests and staff alike.&nbsp;Every ten years, we check in to meet the hotel’s residents: Indian mutineers, Cantonese nannies, Malay film stars, Japanese soldiers, transsexual sex workers, wedding guests, suspected terrorists, and more. They live out the pivotal moments in their personal lives, as empires die and new ones are born f

HOTEL (2025)

Teater Ekamatra

The future of Singapore is bleak, in a city that is all too willing to archive its past.While across the world, developing and using Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in daily life is fast becoming the norm, it’s been especially worrying that local government entities have been leaping onto the AI trend and adopted it as the next big thing. From designing posters to interactive chatbots, AI has enamoured and convinced us of our need for it, and plays so well into our love for efficiency, that it wouldn’t c

National Memory Project (2025)

Armed with fantastic powers, Agnes is a goddess on a heroic mission: ‘to save gay men from themselves’. But where on earth can she go to make the biggest difference?&nbsp;&nbsp;When Agnes lands in the strait-laced realm known as Singapore, a mysterious guide called ‘Boy’ offers to show her around. Together, they travel through time – meeting horny, sweaty rickshaw coolies, love-doomed resistance fighters during the Japanese Occupation, and the lonely drifters of a virtual landscape filled with headless tors

Dreamplay: Asian Boys Vol. 1 (2025)

Hafidz Abdul Rahman

Rizman Putra

Harith knows his Bollywood inside out. He can tell his Amrita Rao from his Amrita Arora, his Rimi Sen from his Sushmita Sen. He knows Duggu, Lolo, and Bebo like they're old friends. He’s memorised the Navarasas, the Ankhein Khuli choreography by the beat, and every lyric of Bholi Si Surat. But there’s one thing he isn’t: Indian.&nbsp;&nbsp;Drawing from his own real-life experiences, Hafidz Rahman crafts and delivers a captivating monologue about his own obsession with Indian cinema, reflecting on the common

My Name Is (NOT) Khan (2025)

Paper Monkey Theatre

In this episode, Tripitaka's team encounters the powerful Crimson Boy, son of the Bull Demon King and Princess Iron Fan. Despite being 300 years old, he wields True Samadhi Fire and possesses great strength. Capturing Tripitaka, he plans to offer the monk's meat to his parents to prevent their divorce, believing he's the cause of their strife. Sun Wukong is defeated but seeks help from the Goddess of Mercy, who forgives Crimson Boy and takes him as her disciple. The demon releases Tripitaka, and the group c

Journey West: The Crimson Boy (2023)

Joel Tan

Tan Shou Chen

An old playground in Ang Mo Kio is slated to be bulldozed. Three 20-something friends and a stranger gather to protest its demolition. What starts as a well-meaning but ill-conceived protest escalates quickly to a night of reckoning. Relationships are tested, convictions challenged and identities scrapped. Much like the playground itself, the lives of these four characters are sucked into an endless cycle of forgetting, destruction, loss and letting go.&nbsp;An ode to the hang-ups and dramas of a generation

Mosaic (2023)

HOTEL (2023)

Adam is sent away by his mother, Siti, to undergo the rite of passage of every Singaporean son: National Service. Except, he was born in Australia and has no sense of what Singapore means to him. His return is further complicated by Siti’s overzealous need for him to rekindle the ties she severed a long time ago — and experience the quintessential rite of passage of every Singaporean Malay son: circumcision.&nbsp;Aided by an uncle and grandmother who are not quite what they seem and an out of sorts ‘maker o

Potong (2023)

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)

HuM Theatre

A Singaporean comedy that sets you thinking!It's a gloves off, free for all wrestle-mania between the perpetually irate Chinese, the Ngs and the notoriously frustrating new Indians, the Bhallas. All the pet peeves that they have about each other are on the table as they hilariously duel one another on every misconception and every misgiving.It's a forum theatre play about the challenges of integration and we seek a happy ending from you, the audience. Come help us get there and you will go home both enterta

We Are Like This Only 3 (2023)

Pam Oei likes gay boys. Gay boys like her too. She has always felt a profound affinity with them – even as a teenager, before she knew what the term ‘gay’ meant.

Over the years, Pam’s adventures have included: coaxing gay boyfriends out of the closet, attending her first gay wedding in 2001, fighting to repeal Section 377A of the Penal Code in 2007, and acting as Pink Dot’s Countdown Queen every year (though the job is less ‘queen’ and more ‘drill sergeant’!). This makes her a gold-star straight ally and

Faghag (2021)

Liu Yuyan chanced upon a scholar Bian Ji who was selling his calligraphic writing at the Flower Festival. It was love at first sight for the maiden and the scholar! Feeling excited, Yuyan rushed home to inform her parents of the wonderful news. Alas! What seemed like a simple affair became a complex love game when instead of inviting Bian Ji over to discuss the marriage, the muddle-headed housekeeper invited the tyrant, Zhou Tong!Singapore theatre, Paper Monkey Theatre, proudly presents Romance of Mistakes 

Romance of Mistakes (2021)

Lina Yu

Ramith Ramesh

One room. Two shadows.He thinks he owns the world, proud and conceited.She thinks she found love, thinking fondly of her lover.Two people from two different worlds.They journeyed through life, but find themselves trapped together in a room they cannot leave.What will happen as time passes?Room 0505 is a newly devised play that incorporates elements of Asian traditional forms in Kutiyattam and Beijing Opera and is a re-imagination of a different room from Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit. Together with co-creators

Room 0505 (2020)

Stage Manager

Romance of Mistakes&nbsp;is a pantomime of a series of seemingly unfortunate events that resulted from mistaken identities and misrepresented love. Liu Yu Yan chanced upon a scholar Bian Ji who was selling his calligraphic writing at the Flower Festival. It was love at first sight for the maiden and the scholar! Feeling excited, Yu Yan rushed home to inform her parents of the wonderful news. Alas! What seemed like a simple affair became a complex love game when instead of inviting Bian Ji over to discuss th

Romance of Mistakes (2019)

T:>Works (TheatreWorks)

TheatreWorks’ ‘Because I Love You’&nbsp;season opens by exploring the form and substance of relationships in&nbsp;13.13.13, digging into the tenuous bonds that bind, and betrayals that break. William and Samantha live a good life. They have the perfect arrangement – William doesn’t want marriage, and Sam doesn’t want kids. Lynn, William’s ex-girlfriend and now oldest best friend, desperately wants to marry but cannot. Lynn also wants children. William does what he believes is reasonable to help his oldest f

13.13.13 (2018)

I Theatre

Welcome to the Farmyard! Come and meet three famous feathered friends - the stars of three classic tales - The Goose That Laid The Golden Eggs, and her greedy owner; The Little Red Hen, with bread to bake, but lazy friends; and Chicken-Licken - with that scary acorn.&nbsp;

This talkative trio of feathered friends will sing, dance, show and tell you their tales - and don't be surprised if they share some valuable farmyard wisdom on the way.

This brand new, interactive, fun, musical production is guaran

Poultry Tales (2017)

A bright, breezy musical for all the family, fast-paced and interactive, with colourful characters, puppets and tuneful, catchy songs. Based on the very famous Aesop's Fable, but with unexpected twists and turns to keep even the grownups engaged, involved and on their toes!

Once there lived a hard-working and ever-busy Ant who never seemed to have time for play or relaxation.&nbsp;
And then there was Grasshopper, with time on his hands and nothing to do all day.&nbsp;
Somehow they were friends. All day

The Ant & The Grasshopper (2017)

HATCH

Lara is a storyteller. A storyteller that can make you laugh. And cry. Today, just like everyday, Lara has a story to tell. But this one is different…

In a village, there lived a mid-wife, Mak Bidan, and her husband, the village circumcision specialist, Tok Mudim. They live happily. Together. With each other. But they are incomplete. They yearn for a child. A child to call their own. Aided in their quest by the mystical Bomoh, the village shaman, will the childless couple finally find that missing ‘piece

Cari Makan (2016)

Arts House Limited

Sisters - The Untold Stories of the Sisters Islands

Two tales of unrequited love and sacrifice that lead to tragedy.

A real-life murder case of bargirl.

A folk tale about two sisters, separated by one man.

In a desperate attempt to escape amidst a fierce storm, one throws herself into the sea to join the other.

What are the depths to which love and take us. And just how much do we value the people around us?

Sisters&nbsp;explores the themes of love, truth and sacrifice behind the legend of

Sisters (2013)

Ong Keng Sen

In&nbsp;Lear,&nbsp;TheatreWorks' artistic director Ong Keng Sen had a vision, one where he imagined Shakespeare's greatest tragedy as a juxtaposition of different Asian cultures, languages and art forms, both traditional and contemporary. It was an ambitious notion but Ong accomplished it. Upon its 1997 premiere in Japan, it quickly became a groundbreaking intercultural theatre production, and subsequently performed to nine cities in the Asia-Pacific and Europe.&nbsp;

In 2012,&nbsp;LEAR DREAMING&nbsp;dis

LEAR DREAMING (2012)

Crew

Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts

Theseus, Duke of Athens, will marry his captive bride, the Amazon Queen Hippolyta, in four days. The noble Egeus demands that Theseus force his daughter, Hermia, to marry the man he has chosen, Demetrius, rather than the man she loves, Lysander. However, Hermia and Lysander escape to the Forest in the middle of the night with plans to elope. But before they do, they confide their plans to Hermia's best friend, Helena, to whom Demetrius was previously engaged and with whom she is hopelessly in love. Helena d

A Midsummer Night's Dream (2012)

Singapore Repertory Theatre

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)

Lighting Programmer

Venue Technician

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)

Lighting Operator

ACTION Theatre

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Shocks & SHIOK! (2009)

A new dramedy for tall men and women who love them.


Manhood (2009)

Arthur Miller's The Crucible is a powerful and timeless depiction of how intolerance and hysteria can tear a community apart. It was made into a film starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder.

A group of teenage girls gather in a forest one evening and are involved in an innocent conjuring of love potions in order to catch the eye of the young men that they desire. Guilt at being caught in the act drives them into a frenzy of accusations and they are forced to tell lies that Satan has invaded them.

I

The Crucible (2009)

Little Petey is bored, bored, bored. It is really not much fun to sit on a little rock, on a little hill, watching a little flock of sheep all day long. So little Petey decides to hatch the perfect plan to have some fun and scare the socks off his fellow villagers. But little does poor Petey know that a very tiny lie can lead to a whole lot of trouble...


The Boy Who Cried Wolf (2009)

One night, best friends Chicken and Bear go on a camping adventure in the Great Outdoors, Armed with flashlights, marshmallows and peanut butter sandwiches, they find the perfect spot under a beautiful starry sky.

Throughout the night, they make lots of amazing discoveries about the world around us, like what makes a shooting star leap across the sky. And have you ever wondered where the sun goes at night? Or how crickets can make such loud noises? Bear and Chicken Go Camping is the second play of a high

Bear and Chicken Go Camping (2009)

The days of writing letters to one another slowly becomes a thing of the past as mobile phones and the internet make communication between individuals as easy as "logging-in". But in the evolution from pen and paper to keyboard and screen, have we compromised the way we express ourselves? Can we be just as romantic? Heartfelt? Honest?

Take a peek into the love of yesteryear and consider this... Whilst times have changed, perhaps Love remains the same.


Singapore Love Letters (2009)

At the advertising company Chapman and Howard, the staff have taken great pains to prepare for their traditional Christmas bash, and to ensure that they avoid any scandals similar to last year's which resulted in a visit from the police and the Managing Director's divorce! But when the drinks flow and the good times roll, the party lurches from one disaster to another.


The Office Party (2008)

Stage Technician

Ever wondered what happens to your tooth after the Tooth Fairy comes to collect it? Well you are about to find out! make sure you eat an apple a day, brush your teeth properly and take good care of your teeth because the Tooth Fairy only takes the very best teeth she finds under children's pillows to a very special place. Ruthie is so excited to finally have her first wobbly tooth, because now she will finally be visited by the mystical and beautiful Tooth Fairy.


The Tooth Fairy (2008)

Mama's Wedding (2008)

He was an Emperor who liked beautiful clothes. So he could never refuse the most beautiful cloth, which only the wise and capable would be able to see. Little did he know these clothes would reveal more of him than could have ever expected.

This classic fairy-tale written by Hans Christian Andersen describes the foolishness of an Emperor and his people, caught in a web of delusion and blinded by their vanity. Only the brave innocence of a child can truly expose them for what they have become.


The Emperor's New Clothes (2008)

Scooge - The Musical is a lively, fun-filled retelling of Charles Dickens' classic Christmas story. A Christmas Carol. Ebenezer Scrooge, a grumpy miser, who hates Christmas, is visited by three friendly spirits on the night before Christmas. Each spirit takes Scrooge on a journey through his past, his present and his future. By the end of his fantastic journey, Scooge realises that he cannot live life full of spite and loathing. He is transformed in a celebration of the human spirit into a generous, happy o

Scrooge (2007)

Harry is puzzled... A little suitcase has arrived with tiny clothes in it - 'I can't fit into those!' he says. A tiny bed on wheels arrives - 'I can't sleep in that!' he says. A huge stork in the garden... Now that really is strange. A new baby arrives and turns life upside down for Harry. Transported from the sublime pleasure of being the constant center of attention through the scary chaos of change, Harry discovers the pain and delight of becoming a big brother who eventually grows to love his baby siste

Baby Love (2007)

Doubt: A&nbsp;Parable received its world premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director, Barry Grove, Executive Producer) on November 23, 2004. The production then transferred to Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre (Carole Shorenstein Hays; MTC Productions, Inc.; Roger Berlind, Scott Rudin; producers) and opened there on March 31, 2005. The production was directed by Doug Hughes, with scenic design by John Lee Beatty, costume design by Catherine Zuber, lighting design by Pat Collins and orig

Doubt (2006)

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Alberta Wileo

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