Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts

【老妇还乡】(The Visit of the Old Lady) 是瑞士剧作家迪伦马特 (Friedrich Duerrenmatt)(1921 - 1990) 于1956 年创作的成名作: 亿万富婆克莱尔45 年后返回故乡居伦小城，要用100 亿捐 款换取她当年恋人伊尔的人头，因为伊尔早年抛弃了她，曾使她沦为妓女。该剧是世界戏剧的经典之作。

The Visit of the Old Lady (2024)

Creative

“曾经，她们和我们一样地年轻，她们和我们一样地美丽，她们和我们一样地对爱情和生活怀着无比的憧憬和热爱。。。她们将自己最美好的青春岁月奉献于这片土地。。。致敬红头巾, 共和国建国一代的巾帼英雄们！”

原创华语舞台剧【红头巾】尝试发掘并走进上世纪中叶活跃在新马一带建筑工地上一群红头巾姑娘们鲜为人知的丰富的情感世界。。。

The Girls in Red Headscarves explores the lives of a group of young women working on a construction site in Singapore during the founding period of the Republic. Defined by their iconic red headscarves, these young women’s stories are not only of their lives and loves, but they also tell the story of the birth of Singapore.


The Girls in Red Headscarves (2021)

Playwright

Director

Don Juan, a wealthy libertine from Spain, is well-known in various literature and art forms. There have been many versions of the Don Juan story. The Mandarin version will be performed here for the first time.

西班牙中世纪家喻户晓的传说人物唐璜，以其英俊潇洒与风流多情而著称于世，历来是各种文艺作品中的“情圣”式人物。唐璜的故事有数多版本。此次演出是布莱希特【唐璜】华语版的世界首演。


Don Juan (2020)

Rhinoceros in Love was first staged by the Chinese experimental theatre director Meng Jinghui in&nbsp;1999. It tells the story of how a man fell in love with a woman and did everything a person can possibly do for her. The protagonist Ma Lu, a paranoid in the eyes of others, has dedicated his devotion to what he truly believes in - a rhinoceros in our midst. This play is now a&nbsp;contemporary classic among the world repertoire of the Chinese-language theatre today.

《恋爱的犀牛》1999年由中国先锋戏 剧导演孟京辉搬上舞台。剧情主要讲一个

Rhinoceros in Love (2019)

On the night of the Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots, Butterfly Yiu was given an accidental chance to perform the final show when the original and star performer, Pak Long, was stranded at another venue. This started a chain of events that will change the four characters' lives forever.

The beginning and the end of the play takes place in modern times, and Butterfly returns from retirement in Canada to perform in a final charity show at the Flower Palace Nightclub before it is demolished.&nbsp;

The main t

I Have A Date With Spring (2012)

Executive Producer

The four of Chekov's short stories - On the Train, Kashtanka, Rothschild's Fiddle and The Man in a Shell come alive in this Chekov's Short Stories Adaptation.

Chekov's Short Stories Adaptation of his four works describes some passengers embark on a train voyage across the frozen wastelands of Russia - their stories unfold, capturing the tenderness and fragility of the human spirit. ON THE TRAIN provides the framework for the show - a journey which begins at the Happy-Trach-Tarrach Station towards a stati

Adaptation of Chekhov's Four Short Stories (2012)

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)

"I recognize in thieves, traitors, and murderers, in the ruthless and cunning, a deep beauty-a sunken beauty." -Jean Genet

"The Maids" is a play of revolt. It was probably inspired by the real-life story of the Papin sisters, two French maids who killed and mutilated their dominating Mistress. After the crime, they were found in bed together, awaiting the arrival of the police. Genet changes the details of this story in order to paint a portrait of two desperately poor young women trapped in a prison of 

The Maids (2012)

Lecturer

First written in 1990 as part of the Substation's opening,&nbsp; Those Who Can't Teach&nbsp;was re-written and restaged in 2010 as part of the Singapore Arts Festival . The play is set in an average neighborhood school that is striving to achieve Autonomous Status, and with it, better funding and more freedom in its operations. The action moves between the worlds of the teachers and the students as it traces the troubled relationship between a senior teacher - Mrs Phua Su Lin - and her maverick student - On

Those Who Can't, Teach (2012)

Artistic Director

In Thebes in ancient Greece, the two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - of King Oedipus kill each other for the reign in Thebes. The ruler of Thebes Creon decrees that Eteocles should have an honourable burial while the body of the traitor Polyneices should be left on the battlefield to be eaten by the jackals and vultures. Antigone, one of the exiled King Oedipus' two daughters, who was betrothed to Creon's surviving son Haemon, defies Creon's orders and buries her brother. When Creon is reported of the atti

Antigone (2011)

Lorca described the play in its subtitle as a Drama of Women in the Villages of Spain. The House of Bernarda Alba was Lorca's last play, completed on 19 June 1936, two months before the author's murder by the Nationalists (fascists) during the Spanish Civil War. The play was first performed in 1945.

The play canters on the events of a house in Andalusia during a period of family mourning, in which Bernarda Alba (aged 60) wields total control over her five daughters Angustias (39 years old), Magdalena (30

The House of Bernarda Alba (2011)

Subtitling

Helen Alving is about to dedicate an orphanage she has built in the memory of her dead husband, Captain Alving.

She reveals to her spiritual advisor, Pastor Manders, that she has hidden the evils of her marriage, and has built the orphanage to deplete her husband's wealth so that their son, Oswald, might not inherit anything from him. Pastor Manders had previously advised her to return to her husband despite his philandering, and she followed his advice in the belief that her love for her husband would e

Ghosts (2011)

Paulina Salas is a former political prisoner in an unnamed Latin American country who had been raped by her captors, led by a sadistic doctor whose face she never saw. The rapist doctor played Schubert's composition Death and the Maiden during the act of rape; hence the play's title.

Years later, after the (also unnamed) repressive regime has fallen, Paulina lives in an isolated country house with her husband, Gerardo Escobar. When Gerardo comes back from a visit to the president, he gets a flat tire. A 

Death and the Maiden (2010)

The play opens with the Introduction of Beatrice, a woman who has traveled to Venice disguised as her dead brother in search of the man who killed him: her lover, Florindo. She disguises herself as her brother so that she can collect dowry money from Pantalone, the father of Clarice, her brother's betrothed. She wants to use this money to help her lover escape, and to allow them to finally wed. Thinking that Beatrice's brother was dead, Clarice has fallen in love with another man, Silvio, and the two have b

The Servant of Two Masters (2010)

It is a happy-ending story with a single-parented Japanese family. The mother, who lost her husband shortly after the birth of her daughters, took all her efforts to bring up her four children. Her daughters, in return, also stayed single in order to accompany their beloved mother. The play begins when the daughters leave the family to get married, which brings out the marriage of the mother, too...


The Marriage (2010)

The Caucasian Chalk Circle was written in 1944 while Brecht was living in exile in the United States during The Second World War. Its German premiere was in 1954 at the Theater Am Schiffbauer Damm, Berlin. The Caucasian Chalk Circle Is now considered one of the Brecht's most important plays and it is one of the most widely performed German plays in the international repertory in both professional and university theatres. It is perhaps the finest example of Brecht's "epic-theatre" style and is structured as 

The Caucasian Chalk Circle (2010)

The choice of staging "Red Sky" is, to the students and myself, a challenge that is hard to come by.

I have all along wanted the script to be a mere starting point. As an ensemble devised work, "Red Sky" presents itself as a piece with great possibility of further improvisation. The students have put in commendable effort in re-creating the play, as a result, what's on stage today is quite unlike the original. I congratulate and thank them for making it all possible.

It is not easy to assume the physi

Red Sky (2007)

The story begins with the end of a war, with people wanting to enjoy themselves. The soldiers of the army are amongst women again. One of the soldiers want to marry. A marriage is arranged to the woman he loves (who also happen to be the richest), and for a laugh, the most unlikely couple are tricked into marrying each other. Deceits and plots are hatched and lies told and believed. An innocent woman's reputation is ruined. A man challenges his best friend to a duel. The truth is uncovered. The woman's hono

Much Ado About Nothing (2006)

The Harvest is over and the Patron and his wife, DON ESTEBAN and DONA MERCEDES, host a fiesta. All the families of his tenants and labourers are invited to celebrate.

The village swains all attend with gusto because MARIA, the Patrons daughter is now of age to be presented for marriage. GASTON, a villager and a playmate of her youth, is confident of winning her hand, and playfully lays his claim on Maria for all to see. Maria is shy and unsure but delighted.

Merrymaking and dancing fill the air. Unbek

Romanza Espanola (2005)

First Chapter: The Meeting of the Star-crossed Lover
After the demise of her mother, Lin Dai Yu was being sent to live in her grandmother's house where she met her cousin Jia Bao Yu. The young couple soon developed an affection for each other. However, it wasn't long before their relationship turned complex with the arrival of their cousin Xue Bao Chai. Xue Bao Chai had, as an ornament, a golden locket that was deemed to be pair of a symbolic pair with the jade pendant that Jia Bao Yu wore on his chest...

红楼梦 (2005)

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Yu Weijie

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