Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

A contemporary reimagining of the Indian epic tale&nbsp;The&nbsp;Mahabharata&nbsp;that resonates with the current day.The Pandavas and the Kauravas—two groups of cousins—struggle for political power and the claim to the dynastic succession to the throne of the Hastinapura, an Indian kingdom. The confrontation climaxes with an 18-day Kurukshetra War in which even the gods are involved. Unimaginable death and destruction ensue, and all on the battlefield are forced to face up to their&nbsp;dharma—their duty a

Kingdoms Apart (2022)

Musician

Music Composer

Music Director

Sound Designer

The Finger Players

Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts

A grandmother is dying.
Her grandson is in New York and she’s in Singapore. He refuses to come home and she puts her foot down. She buys him a flat and he buys her a coffin.

A woman and a man are in love.
A third party buys a bed but gets nothing else. Three’s a crowd but no one wants to budge. Does love know no boundaries or is there just too much greed?

A criminal is on the loose.
His father is going berserk. His mother has bought breakfast but no one wants to eat.&nbsp;

The Devil pays all thr

Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (2020)

Everyday existence is a colourless hue. Then a woman transforms into a crow. The woman is a crow, a voyeur and a destabilizing self-loather. Its quest – to peep and mimic, lurk and conceal, deceive and try, to, be. Peepbird&nbsp;is a meeting place between puppetry and movement aesthetics, an exploration of destabilized identities and the state of being colourless.&nbsp;


Peepbird (2020)

Cake Theatrical Productions

in this new world: a presentation of regarding by Madeleine Lee brings together the spatial act of viewing an artwork with a performance of the written word. It commemorates the ekphrastic poems that Madeleine Lee wrote during her time as the National Gallery Singapore’s first Poet-in-Residence.

Devised as a special tour of our long-term exhibitions Siapa Nama Kamu? and Between Declarations and Dreams, in this new world takes visitors through the DBS Singapore Galleries and UOB Southeast Asian Galleries 

in this new world: a presentation of regarding by Madeleine Lee (2020)

Sound Artist

Watch as live performance, film and writing collide in this magnetising event drawn from the voices of Singaporean writers.

With spirits and monsters, shadows and visions, fractured states of mind and&nbsp;displays of fantasy and haunting, this event is a psychedelic and spine-chilling&nbsp;dose of live-performance-meets-film as three actors interact with a swirl of&nbsp;characters captured on film.

These vignettes encapsulate the most electrifying and sometimes unnerving&nbsp;voices in Singaporean co

Glorious, Monstrous, Hantu Tales from Singapore (2019)

A man did not shed a single tear during his mother’s funeral.

He commits an irreversible act, deemed unforgivable under the judicial system.

Witnesses take to the stand, each one’s account as colourful as their personalities, held together by a common thread -&nbsp;the judgement of a man’s soul.

Is this man a lunatic, a sage, a fool, a fiend or a social misfit?

Inspired by the philosophy of absurdism and existentialism, A Fiend’s Diary is the ultimate revelation of a man’s battle against the jud

A Fiend's Diary (2019)

Jeanette Peh — a highly-westernised Singaporean junior college valedictorian — decides to abandon law school to follow her dreams of studying acting in London, where she will also hopefully find her occidental soulmate.

On arrival however, she is dismayed to find that her teacher and classmates labels her as one of the “Asian students”. She adopts a British accent and corrects the British students’ grammar well-meaningly, but that doesn’t seem to boost her popularity. At least she’s doing well in school…

Forked (2019)

Drama Box

A flower evokes…

life / death
fragility / strength
submission / resistance

FLOWERS&nbsp;is an experiential installation that investigates the patriarchal violence around and within us. Step in and let us (re)consider our lived experiences as men and women in relation to this violence. How does it seek to control and violate, and how might we resist and hope?


FLOWERS (2019)

Collaborator

Emergency Stairs

How can one survive and love in a broken world? How do we get along with ourselves?

Inspired by British playwright Sarah Kane’s last work&nbsp;4.48 Psychosis, Young Artist Award recipient Liu Xiaoyi presents FOUR FOUR EIGHT, a brand-new work that leads you into a world, a social construct, where every audience member becomes a participant in a space of gathering and camaraderie; anchored in a place of urban loneliness – the bar.

Taking place in and around an actual bar, the perceptions of individual a

Four Four Eight (2019)

Creator

Designer

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)

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)

The Theory of Relativity tells us: If a car moves at the speed of light, time will stand still, and space will fall away.

In the hauntingly quiet Esplanade B2 carpark, two men meet. One is Zhang Jun, possessing in him 600 years of Kun Opera history. The other is George Chan, trained in musicals, the centuries-old Western art form. As the prince of Kunqu and leading actor of musicals face each other, each with their own histories and cultures etched in their bodies, what do they say? What can’t they hold 

Einstein in the Carpark (2018)

Devisor

MISSING: The City of Lost Things&nbsp;is a participatory experience that sets up a personal and intimate journey for the audience to re-encounter a lost connection in their lives.

It calls for you to step out of your comfort zone and take chances. Your experience depends entirely on what you're willing to give to this journey.


MISSING: The City of Lost Things (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)

“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)

ArtsWok Collaborative

A heartwarming puppetry performance told from the point of view of a stray cat, about an elderly couple struggling to make&nbsp;end-of-life&nbsp;choices. After the show, stay and chat with our volunteers over dessert, and let us know what you think about the issues presented.


The Wind Came Home (2017)

Composer

To escape her fate in China, Swee Leng and her friends sail across oceans to find hope and a better life in Nanyang. Upon their arrival, the women earn their keep as helpers to the men at construction sites, making a name for themselves as Samsui women. However, repeated taunts from people around them as well as conflicts between Swee Leng and her friends threaten their solidarity and friendship.

Friends become foes and family turns into enemies, until a fire at Bukit Ho Swee brings them together again. 

Samsui Women: One Brick at a Time (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)

Music Arranger

You will see no play.

Four nameless performers, in a space without boundaries. No plot, no love nor sorrow, no more roller coaster narrative. And the stage does not represent another place. What then shall happen in theatre? When all pretence is stripped, is everything then genuine?

In 1966, Austrian playwright Peter Handke rose to prominence with Offending the Audience, a play that challenged perceptions of theatre and rocked the establishment of the day.

Five decades later, this special Huayi com

Offending the Audience (2017)

Simultaneously a crash course in, and a love letter to SingLit, Between the Lines: Rant &amp; Rave II takes you on an odyssey of how the English-language literature scene in Singapore has evolved through the decades: from the literature during our post-colonial days, to the advent of book retail giant Borders in the 1990s, to the literary activism that have galvanised writers and readers today.

Relive the conversations and events that made history with actors Serene Chen and Jean Ng as they take on the r

Between the Lines: Rant & Rave II (2016)

What if Hitler were Jekyll and Hyde? History and fiction collide in Starring Hitler as Jekyll and Hyde. Borrowing characters and themes from literary classic – Jekyll and Hyde, the history of Jewish holocaust is retold in a new tale about Jekyll, a young painter by day, who turns into Hitler by night. Hitler terrorises the populace, subjecting them to his will. To build up his country, the non-ˇnatives are murdered and disposed of by him to preserve the blood and lineage of his countrymen. Meanwhile, Jekyll

Starring Hitler as Jekyll & Hyde (2016)

Adapted from a classical Chinese epic, Journey to the West: Treasures from the Dragon Palace is the story of Sun Wukong the Monkey King, his master Xuanzang, and his friend Pigsy. Follow the powerful but rebellious Monkey King as he goes on a quest to hunt down the perfect weapon to fend off evil.

Watch the legendary story of the Monkey King come alive through an array of traditional hand puppets and puppetry techniques.


Journey to the West: Treasures from the Dragon Palace (2016)

The Theatre Practice

A soulful monologue on life and its departure.

She says the body becomes 21 grams lighter upon death.
She says that is the weight of the soul.
No. That is merely the loss of water.
Or, are our souls made of water?&nbsp;

She has no idea how to speak of his death. She can neither recount the incident nor knows what to make of this strange detachment. Who would listen and if that matters?

Co-creators Janice Sze Wan Poon (Text), Liu Xiaoyi (Director) and Melissa Leung Hiu Tuen (Cast) will bring you 

Fleet (2016)

Two of the most exciting directors from Japan and Singapore, Shigeki Nakano and Chong Tze Chien, inject their bold and invigorating interpretations of the modern noh (a form of theatre orginating in the 14th century) classic, The Damask Drum, by Yukio Mishima.

Regarded as the father of modern noh drama, Mishima’s adaptation from the original tale by 14th century playwright Zeami Motokiyo, centres around an old man's infatuation with a beautiful neighbour. This results in his suicide when the latter and h

Drums (2016)

Two sisters have only each other to count on

When their mother frowns and throws a hissy fit

The two sisters have always supported each other

Until one throws in the towel and calls it a day

Inheritance is a simple and moving story about two sisters and their mother

When nothing binds them together anymore


Inheritance (2016)

In&nbsp;The Spirits Play, five Japanese spirits -&nbsp;a General, a Man, a Mother, a Girl and a Poet -&nbsp;recall their life experience in the Second World War. They are collectively thrown into turmoil in the process of recollection, and in their wish to “make sense” of the war and its atrocities 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&nbsp;poignantly depicts the agony, guilt and turmoil that occur 

The Spirits Play (2015)

“Eat something. Most of the time we need things even before we understand why we want them.”

A wife travels with her dead husband to his hometown in an unknown place for a final meal with the family. Elsewhere, a woman leaves food outside her door for her lost cat but it is consumed by something else. Yet elsewhere, a mother guides her daughter one last time in the preparation of a meal. In the aftermath of great loss, each person feels the pangs of a spiritual hunger that may only be satiated by the rit

SEED (2015)

To escape her fate in China, Swee Leng, together with her friends who were in the same plight as her, sail across oceans to find hope and livelihood in Nanyang. Upon their arrival, the women manage to earn their keep as helpers to the men at construction sites, eventually making a name for themselves as Samsui women.

However, in the process, their solidarity and friendship are threatened by the repeated taunts from people around them as well as conflicts between Swee Leng and her friends. Friends become 

Samsui Women: One Brick at a Time (2015)

A new devised play featuring a lineup of veteran &amp; new theatre performers.

In 1969, Kuo Pao Kun wrote and directed&nbsp;The Struggle,&nbsp;which was banned by the government two weeks before its opening. The artistic team was forced to replace the performance with poetry recital and skits.&nbsp;The Struggle&nbsp;remains Kuo Pao Kun's only script yet to be staged. It reflects upon the social turmoil resulting from rapid urban development and people's struggles against these changes back in the 70s.&nb

The Struggle: Years Later (2015)

Wild Rice

In a city that’s preparing to market itself as a world-class resort spa, Dr. Thomas Chee&nbsp;discovers that the water supply is riddled with bacteria. He resolves to go public with the information. It’s a decision that pits him against his entire community. Overnight, he finds himself drowning in a storm of protests from the government, media, businesses, and even his family. Suddenly, Dr. Chee is the enemy of the people – the man who insists on telling truths that no one wants to hear.

One of the world

Public Enemy (2015)

Love is the Last Thing on my Mind&nbsp;is a collection of stories about people we have neglected around us.&nbsp;

A girl, sensitive to her emotions and senses, is more moved by everything natural and nature than the artificiality of modern technology, throwing her mother off with her behaviour.&nbsp;

A mother’s overzealous desire to protect her family from diseases and pollution sanitizes everything, erasing even her propensity for love.&nbsp;

A couple gets so carried away by the romantic notion of

Love is the Last Thing on my Mind (2015)

The day starts with a flush from the toilet and ends with the pronouncement of the clock ticking loudly. He often wakes up to the bus arriving and boards precariously while making tea, only to come short of reaching his destination because the house phone starts ringing. I see him open the drawer many times to spy on listless commuters swarming on and off trains during rush hour. I hear him sit quietly near the living room windows, waiting patiently in line for his turn to order food. He turns on the fan an

ONETWOSIX (2015)

Conceptualizer

Director

Intercultural Theatre Institute

Invisibility is a poignant tale about alienation and the search for meaning in modern urban society — various personas on the margins of society seeking to connect with others, in juxtaposition with a character searching for the secret to make himself invisible.

Dissecting various classic texts and injecting new writings from the cast, this production examines the different kinds of solitude that make up the human condition today.

Almost two decades since Invisibility first made its debut in Mandarin,

Invisibility (2014)

With only the scantiest clues to go on, a man undertakes a humourous and serendipitous search for his ancestral home in China to uncover a family secret which may or may not be true. This 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 a monologue about finding oneself in a strange world he calls home.


Roots (2014)

Turn By Turn We Turn is a sweeping epic about the lives and fates of members in a traditional chinese hand puppetry troupe from 1920s China to the present day. Holding steadfastly to their craft, traditions, beliefs and one another in the face of civil and world wars, political strife, changing times and tastes, the puppeteers survive one ordeal after another, testing their mettle and resolve to perform, entertain and preserve the lineage of puppetry.


Turn By Turn We Turn (2014)

In war, there are no winners. One is either killed as an innocent bystander caught in a cross fire, loses a loved one or becomes morally scarred as a consequence of our aggressive actions.

War makes a victim out of everyone, even those who start the conflict.

This play celebrates and honours the men and women who stood up for their beliefs despite the difficult and trying times. Unlikely heroes emerge out of the extraordinary circumstances. The pages of history are dotted with stories of these brave s

My Friend, A Japanese Soldier (2014)

In the theatre. On the stage.&nbsp;
He speaks not a word.
She barely moves.&nbsp;

The performer vocalizes her thoughts. She questions / whispers / blabbers / murmurs / shouts / moans / complains / lectures / commands / englightens. What is the relationship between inside and outside the theatre, seeing and being seen, a performer and an audience?

What is performance? What is a performer? What is an audience? What is theatre? What is art? What is life? Finally, what is existence?

The Theatre Pract

FLUID (2014)

Creative Participant

Artists, past and present theatre reviewers and different personalities from the arts scene “convene” in discussions that retrace the seminal events in Singapore theatre history. Rant and Rave dramatises some of the most memorable debates pertaining to the development of Singapore theatre from as far back as the 80s, re-enacting some of the most fiery dialogues about the arts in the last 30 years. Archival materials culled from various newspaper publications are used to create these discussions on art and s

Rant & Rave (2014)

Nine Years Theatre

Bosom buddies for the past 15 years, Serge, Marc and Yvan’s friendship is put to the test when Serge decides to pay a ridiculously high price for a modern painting – a white canvas with a few faint, white lines. Tension ensues when Marc calls the painting “a piece of white shit” and Serge decides to defend it stubbornly. Their differences in taste quickly degenerates into a relentless attack on each other’s failures in life. The absurdity of the situation escalates when Yvan, who is caught in the middle, va

Art (2014)

Backstabbing, under the table dealings and double-crossing – it’s just another day in the world of real estate.

Housing agents, new and old immigrants are fighting for properties in land scarce Singapore. Someone has to give in, somehow. Who bends the rules and breaks the law?

Two tenants share their rental woes, shedding light on unscrupulous house owners and realtors.

It’s one thing to survive, and another to live.


Citizen Pig (2013)

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Watch This Space: The Last Chief Minister of Singapore (2013)

Legend tells of 24 sons and daughters in ancient Chinese times who took parental respect to exceptional extremes, even wrestling tigers and weeping to make plants grow for their parents. Here, three of the top tales are adapted by celebrated local puppet theatre company The Finger Players.


Tales of Filial Piety (2013)

How do we lead a carefree life?

Many spend a lifetime pondering over this, or perhaps attempt to find the answer through the reading of the classic text,&nbsp;Zhuang Zi.&nbsp;Named after the author, Zhuang Zi was an influential Chinese philosopher who advocated self-cultivation, unwavering peace, being in harmony with the natural flow of life, and the pursuit of spiritual freedom.

His ideas have left a profound influence on Chinese culture.&nbsp;Wanderer-Seeker: A Trek Around My Room&nbsp;relooks at t

Wanderer-Seeker: A Trek Around My Room (2013)

Adapted from a classical Chinese epic, Journey to the West: Treasures from the Dragon Palace is the story of Sun Wukong the Monkey King, his master Xuanzang, and his friend Pigsy. Follow the powerful but rebellious Monkey King as he goes on a quest around the Earth and the Heavens to hunt down the perfect weapon to fend off evil.

Watch the legendary story of the Monkey King come alive through an array of traditional hand puppets and puppetry techniques. The audience will be invited to participate in an i

Journey to the West: Treasures from the Dragon Palace (2013)

Sight Lines Productions

Everything but the Brain tells the story of Elaine, a Physics teacher who hatches a plan to turn back time and save her stroke-afflicted father from further deterioration. Along the way, she is egged on by a chorus of three bears, occasionally distracted by a dashing young surgeon and haunted by a particularly memorable train ride to Malacca…

Don’t miss this poignant, comic play, which premiered in 2005 to critical acclaim. After two sold-out runs, it went on to win “Best Original Script” and “Best Actor

Everything But The Brain (2013)

A daughter faces her transvestite father’s impending death. However, her last lap with him does not come smoothly, as she unearths his suppressed secret which wreaks emotional hell on the parent-and-child relationship.

It is not the father’s penchant to cross dress that drives a wedge between the two — that is open knowledge. It is something else.

While the horrified daughter struggles with the emotions that run riot through her, her father, trying desperately to discern the meaning of life, is greete

The Book of Living and Dying (2013)

The Book of Living and Dying (2012)

A supposedly usual party reveals some intricate secrets; and an evening of heavy drinking exposes inherent human flaws. It all starts with a young couple being invited to the home of an elderly professor, and there they find themselves somehow embroiled in the martial conflict of their host and his wife. Under the influence of alcohol, the two couples get caught up in a verbal warfare, hurling humiliation and abuses at each other. The absurd game they play unmasks their true emotions which have so far been 

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2013)

two remnants of a day
yesterday and tomorrow

day in, day out... unchanging
lingering in between
intimate, yet distant

One Fine Day
wherefore the reminiscing?

Perchance the present

tacit,

breathing,

looking within.

ONE FINE DAY is the latest multi-disciplinary performance by The Finger Players and the same collective of award-winning designers and performers who had helmed the visually charged productions –suitCASES and 0501. Come witness the transformation of a black box theatre int

One Fine Day (2013)

An intense midnight quarrel leads to the murder of a man. Witnesses take the stand as his 16-year-old son is tried for homicide. With all testimonies against the boy, his fate now hangs by a thread as twelve jurors find themselves thick in the throes of rendering the final verdict.

In the stifling heat of the jury room, twelve personalities will clash in a bout of logic and intuition, reason and conscience. Caught between conflicting personal obsessions and prejudices, will the jurors emerge as defenders

Twelve Angry Men (2013)

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)

Rant & Rave (2012)

Nezha is an extraordinary child born with tremendous strength and special gifts. Much loved by all in his hometown, Nezha has a doting mother and strict father who wishes he would put his talent to good use. One day, Nezha fights and defeats the son of the Dragon King. This angers the Dragon King and he sends a raging flood to wipe out Nezha's hometown. Nezha's father tries to fend off the Dragon King but fails. To save his parents and home, Nezha sacrifices himself. This act of bravery and filial piety mov

The Legend of Nezha (2012)

Pangdemonium

HOLLYWOOD.

A megalomaniac movie mogul [Adrian Pang] with a murky past, a bite that’s even worse than his bark, and whose motto is “live and let die”.

A struggling film producer [Janice Koh] with clear ambitions and a shady agenda: damsel in distress? Or manipulative, man-eating femme fatale?

A fish-out-of-water wannabe screenwriter [George Young], idealistic and hungry enough to do anything to make his way up the corporate food chain.

With the hottest screenplay in town up for grabs, the line be

Swimming With Sharks (2012)

Trapped in an unknown time, in an unknown corner afar, the only things five unknown souls can recall are the great uncertainties of their correlation.&nbsp;

They embark on a retracing of mutual identities but soon derail into pondering over the state of their beings. Is this merely an attempt to provide meaning to their transient forms - however arbitrary?&nbsp;

They start to reflect, and try to salvage whatever is left of their memory, while yearning for a glimpse of a beacon of hope somewhere afar.&

Afar (2012)

Music

After sweeping the Life! Theatre Awards 2006 with her hit play,&nbsp;Everything but the Brain,&nbsp;award-winning playwright Jean Tay takes on a subject close to every true-blue Singaporean's heart – land.

On this tiny red dot, where sand is as precious as gold, homes exchange hands like commodities. Historical icons are constantly being bulldozed in the name of progress. Week after week, we see our forgotten icons of yesteryear –&nbsp;Rochor Centre,&nbsp;Bukit Brown Cemetery&nbsp;and the&nbsp;KTM Railwa

Boom (2012)

In war, there are no winners. One is either killed as an innocent bystander caught in a cross fire, loses a loved one, or becomes morally scarred as a consequence of our aggressive actions.

War makes a victim out of everyone, even those who start the conflict.

This play celebrates and honours the men and women who stood up for their beliefs despite the difficult and trying times. Unlikely heroes emerge out of extraordinary circumstances. The pages of history are dotted with stories of these brave soul

My Friend, A Japanese Soldier (2012)

An elderly professor, George, and his wife, Martha, invite university newcomer, Nick, and his wife, Honey, over to their place for a late night party. As the night passes, they find themselves caught in the middle of a marital conflict. Fuelled by alcohol and using language as weapon, they are compelled to blemish, hurt, seduce and manipulate, in order to wound their opponents. In the end, mad lies become their only hope. How will this night of torment end?

Truth and illusion - can we tell the difference

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2012)

A motley crew of men come together to laugh about life, argue about women, and fight about everything else. Their comic high-jinks lead to a game of poker… except that these men, poker is never just a game: for Stephen [Adrian Pang] poker is an obsessive power trip; for Sweeney [Daniel Jenkins] it’s a distraction from his domestic dilemmas; for Frankie [Keagan Kang] it’s an extension of his manhood; for Carl [Julian Low] it’s a hopeless addiction; for Mugsy [Andy Tear] it’s an escape from his loser’s life; 

Dealer's Choice (2011) 

Adapted from a classical Chinese epic,&nbsp;Journey to the West: Treasures from the Dragon Palace&nbsp;is the story of Sun Wukong the Monkey King, his master Xuanzang, and his friend Pigsy. Follow the powerful but rebellious Monkey King as he goes on a quest around the Earth and the Heavens to hunt down the perfect weapon to fend off evil.

Watch the legendary story of the Monkey King come alive through an array of traditional hand puppets and puppetry techniques. The audience will be invited to participa

Journey to the West: Treasures from the Imperial Palace (2011)

Who is she?

She claims she is Judith Mayo - a victim of civil war in South Africa.

Rebecca, Singaporean housewife, objects.&nbsp;"Judith is an internet scammer", she exclaims,&nbsp;"she has cheated me of my life savings!"

"But Rebecca doesn't exist", the police claims,&nbsp;"an RC member made her up".

"The RC member, Lily, is indignant.&nbsp;She presents her case to her MP. "Rebecca and Judith are real", she screams.

What is the truth?
Is Lily lying?
Or are the sufferings and injustice she 

To Whom It May Concern (2011)

“Master said… in our world, there are two levels: one that is above us, where the gods and deities, heroes and emperors roam. The other is the level below, where we are. All that the audience pays and wants to see is right above our heads. They are not interested in what goes on below.”

Turn By Turn We Turn is a sweeping epic about the lives and fates of members in a traditional chinese hand puppetry troupe from 1920s China to the present day. Holding steadfastly to their craft, traditions, beliefs and o

Turn By Turn We Turn (2011)

Singapore Repertory Theatre

The Little Company

The Ugly Duckling remains one of the most popular and memorable productions that The Little Company has staged. Originally presented in 2005 as part of the global celebrations of Hans Christian Andersen's Bi-Centennial, the production played to sold out audiences and received rave reviews from both the public as well as schools who brought their students. We are now re-staging the play for a new generation of preschoolers.

The Ugly Duckling is a wonderful retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic st

The Ugly Duckling (2011)

Do you understand what made me what I am?

“Before my breasts were grown, I learned that a woman is nothing in this world that men have made.”

Born in 1940s Singapore, Emily is an abadoned girl-child. But by dint of her native wit and cunning, becomes the matriarch of a distinguished household and Singapore society’s “hostess with the mostest”. But at what cost?

Her story, passionately played out against the glamorous backdrop of the decadent glory days of the Singaporean Peranakan community, celebr

Emily of Emerald Hill (2011)

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 Group of People

A Note Went Off In My Head is the third production by A GROUP OF PEOPLE (AGOP) and marks our third year in existence. Since its beginning, AGOP has been interested in the practice of collaborative creation. Starting from our last work (A Cage Goes In Search Of A Bird), we replaced the role of the traditional "director" with one who "helms" the creation — initiating and organising the process while the materials are generated, and the decisions are made collectively.. As part of our philosophy, we constantly

A Note Went Off In My Head (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)

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)

Former lovers Una and Ray meet face-to-face for the first time in 15 years. A chance picture in a magazine has led her back to him. But is it for answers, reconciliation or revenge?

What follows is a tightly-plotted series of twists and turns that will have you at the edge of your seat. Wielding words like a scalpel, Harrower peels away the layers to expose the conflicting emotions that lie at the core of our human hearts.

From the time of Adam and Eve, we have been fascinated by that which is forbidd

Blackbird (2010)

Poop!&nbsp;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 instill in her GRANDDAUGHTER that death is merely a joke, that there’s nothing to cry about as she takes her on a mind trip towards the underworld and purgatory — set against an all-too-famili

Poop! (2010)

Toy Factory Productions Limited

1950s Singapore: the innocent relationship of a pair of young lovers is sabotaged by strikes organized by Chinese high school students, a marriage of convenience, strong parental disapproval; and a third party waiting desperately in vain for his unrequited love.&nbsp;

1980s Singapore: past grievances and mistakes continue to haunt the younger generation. Only a personal sacrifice and the revelation of an undelivered love letters holds the promise of resolution.&nbsp;

However, no one knows when the rai

December Rains (2010)

THE STORY TELLER.&nbsp;A young a feisty tomboy.
THE PLACE.&nbsp;A sleepy and tired old town.
THE TIME.&nbsp;The created world of our tarnished conscience.
THE ISSUE.&nbsp;A black man is accused of raping a white woman.
THE PROTAGONIST.&nbsp;An idealistic lawyer defends the black man.
THE PROBLEM.&nbsp;The guiltlessness of an accused black against the sullied town.

To Kill A Mockingbird&nbsp;fearlessly illustrates the themes of racial injustice and the destruction of innocence. It also brilliantly ad

To Kill A Mockingbird (2010)

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)

If the process of understanding another human being is analogous to an interview, how much painstaking excavation and questioning would be needed to fully understand the person?

We may not have enough opportunities to ask.
How many honest and truthful answers will we get?

A reporter covering the education beat, a lawyer who handles divorce cases and a model teacher met each other at different stages of their life. Through series of questions and answers, they search for truth and meanings; pouring th

Inter|V!ew (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)

In the beginning, is there an end?

And when the end dawns, is the wait justified?
In Waiting, silence grows, patience wears thin.

Treading, lingering, drifting...&nbsp;
How do we feel? Why do we fear? What do we remember?

Remembrance of feelings and things past.
Holding on and stranded.
Is the shade your hiding place or a shadow you keen to shun?

A dialogue between a father and a daughter on ageing and failings.&nbsp;


Lot No. 8 (2009)

The story is set&nbsp;in the Qing dynasty

Five daughters came forth to celebrate their father’s 60th birthday armed with twin missions

To prepare a lavish banquet featuring the famous hairy crab delicacy and to set up an all-women poetry club

Clearly literacy inspired them to think far beyond the confines of their traditional female sphere.&nbsp;

Words are seasoned with wit and sautéed with hidden emotions as they prepare their menu of love.&nbsp;

Beautifully revealed in each dialogue are ric

The Crab Flower Club (2009)

NUS Stage

According to legend, three sacred Guardians of Earth kept it in balance.

Let down by humans,&nbsp;they resolve to stand back and watch nature run its own course.&nbsp;

Day by day, the world turns colder.

The citizens kept on their consumption and looked ahead, self-absorbed.

But Earth is ceasing on Sunday.

With everyone chipping in,&nbsp;a couple gets busy for their wedding.

Soon to realize, the end of the world also falls on that big day. Full destruction is on its way.


Sun Day (2009)

One lives out of her tattered suitcase, drifting from place to place. Another, a wife and mother devoted to her family, is torn by an unquenchable desire to be free. A third, haunted by requited love, yearns to embark on a new life. All three are runaways, but are they truly free?

Whispers recreates the emotional journeys of three women who have run away only to rediscover the long-suppressed whispers of the heart.

Whispers is an unconventional, non-linear play, featuring monologues with traditional a

Whispers (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)

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)

On this tiny red dot, where sand is as precious as gold, and both living and dead jostle for space, Boom tells the story of a stubborn old woman and her property agent son, who are struggling over the en bloc sale of their home. Their destinies become linked with that of Jeremiah, an idealistic civil servant, who is facing the greatest challenge of his career - persuading a reluctant corpse to relocate.


Boom (2008)

Pinocchio's Complex: A mental state in which everything imagined is deemed real.

A lonely old man longs for a child so much he constructs him out of wood. The 'child' however tries to convince his make that he's not real. Fearing that his child has been tainted by logic, the old man tries to rescue his child from objective reality by summoning an UFO to take them to fairyland.


Pinocchio's Complex (2008)

Sound Musician

Katurian, a writer of 400 terrifying short stories, has been newly imprisoned in a nameless totalitarian country. Katurian is questioned by Tupolski and Ariel, who scale new heights of brutality - and black humour - with their version of the good cop/bad cop mind game. Along the way, the reasons for the storyteller's capture are revealed in a viciously entertaining cat-and-mouse game that has you on the edge of your seat.


The Pillowman (2008)

First staged in London and New York three years ago, this critically acclaimed play makes an exciting debut in Singapore under the direction of Tracie Pang ('Best Director' nominee - Life! Theatre Awards 2007) and stars a compelling cast of actors - Michael Corbidge ('Best Actor' nominee - Life! Theatre Awards 2007), Adrian Pang ('Best Actor' - Life! Theatre Awards 2007) and Dan Jenkins ('Best Supporting Actor' - Life! Theatre Awards 2007).

The Pillowman, written by celebrated Irish dramatist Martin McDo

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