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The scripts of Eat My Shorts 2018 (Vol. 4).

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(Source:&nbsp;The Scripts of Eat My Shorts 2018: Volume 4)


The Scripts of Eat My Shorts 2018: Volume 4

Playwright

UniPress

"Over the last eight years of Shell's sponsorship of the NUS-Shell Short Play Competition, we have seen rapid changes in the local theatre scene. The theatre audience has not only grown in size but also in sophistication and we see a shift of interest from expatriate theatre to local theatre...

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"... As a sponsor of the arts in Singapore, Shell will continue to do its part to contribute to areas of the arts where there are new and emerging needs."

– Jimmy Quah (Public Affairs Manager, Shell Co

NUS-SHELL Short Plays Series: Prize Winning Plays Volume VI

National Arts Council

As we circumnavigate the city, in transit, over ground and under, we have never been closer... on the train, my shoulder rubs against yours, our smells mix, clothings touch, I-watch-your-iPhone-you-read-my-Kindle. Yet we are strangers, all. What lives do they go home to? Who does he love? Where is she getting off? What's their story? And yours?

(Source:&nbsp;Circle Lines - Platform Campus 2012 blurb)


Circle Lines - Platform Campus 2012

Editor

Kaylene Tan

“You look to me. Eyes close, eyes open. I remember too. Like the clouds we named her after, she drifted in and out of our lives.” 

In the Silence of Your Heart is an invitation to enter the world of a charming politician and inveterate drinker. Lend him your ears because he needs to talk.

Thian has been paralysed for 13 years. He’s been still and silent all this time but his mind has not stopped dancing. He gets by with the two things he does have: his memory and his imagination. Today, his world is t

In the Silence of Your Heart (2018)

Director

spell#7

National Language Class&nbsp;is inspired by Chua Mia Tee’s iconic 1959 painting of a group of Chinese students learning Malay.&nbsp;Interactive and inventive, the performance begins by recreating the scene shown in the painting. Gradually, it turns its focus to the bigger political picture the painting was a part of, and to the gap between the future it envisaged, and the one that took its place. In Malay, Mandarin and English, the audience participates in an event that shifts from the humorous to the menac

National Language Class (2016)

Assistant Production Manager

Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

Relationships are tricky. As tricky, if not more, than directing (and/or performing) a work that is so intimate, especially when an estranged couple is looking for lost intimacy. Lines are drawn, and the time is set. So let us play a game. You start. You keep score. We will push, and we will pull. We will carry on, even when there will never be a winner. So listen carefully, or all will be lost again.&nbsp;Irfan Kasban&nbsp;

Selected works of Paul Rae and Kaylene Tan (2015)

What does it mean to be on stage with your grandma? Perform with your sister or dance with your child? In Family Duet, a multi-generational cast presents an off-beat mix of life experiences and perspectives of the world.

Reflecting spell#7's intimate and inventive approach to theatre-making, Family Duet highlights the questions that family living answers but rarely asks: What is it to live together? How did I get these eyes? Are we ever too young to fail, or too old to disappoint? Where are the emergency

Family Duet (2013)

Cast

This is a house that tells you stories - or rather, it makes you tell stories.

Tonight, we are looking for the ghosts who linger in a home long after the people have gone.

Tan Tay Po, who lived from 1891 to 1933, was the seventh wife of the Chinese business tycoon Cheong Fatt Tze. She is the inspiration for this ghost hunt.

Singaporean actress Tan Kheng Hua will be sharing a few ghost stories with you this evening. Who are the ghosts that live in the Blue Mansion? Why do they haunt the place?

As

No. 7 (2011)

Co-Creator

Combining traditional storytelling with theatrical experiment,&nbsp;Epic Poem of Malaya&nbsp;presents a kaleidoscopic vision of a society in flux. In a constantly shifting stage environment, a multi-generational cast unfolds an expansive, big-hearted story of Singapore seen from the sea.

A boy leaves Singapore for life on the South China Sea. He loves it, but history has other ideas. In a 1956 painting by the artist Chua Mia Tee, a passionate young man is declaiming a vision of the future; and there isn’

Epic Poem of Malaya (2010)

Ghostwalking&nbsp;(2010) is a series of audio-video walks.

It takes the form of a download, which people will listen to or watch while on the train or exploring neighbourhoods off the North East Line (NEL).

Stories and memories are played out at the different locations. At a life’s end, what does one remember? A love, a heartbreak, a loss… perhaps a moment is replayed, over and over again. The narrator, Tony is haunted, or is he haunting these places?

He tells stories, lies, attempts to make sense 

Ghostwalking (2010)

Conceptualizer

Voice

Tree Duet is a meditative performance about our continuing entanglement with trees. Accompanied by pianist Shane Thio, performers Paul Rae and Kaylene Tan combine an intricately interwoven set of stories and reportage with simple actions and gestures to create a delicate theatrical ecology of sounds, words and images.

Eco-performance minus the moralizing, Tree Duet encompasses everything from the history of the Malayan rubber industry to carbon offsetting, the music of Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu to

Tree Duet (2009)

Performer

From dreamtime to realtime: a two-part work exploring our daily journey from the private to the public and back again.&nbsp;

Every working day millions of us get up still half asleep, look in the bathroom mirror and start the daily task of putting on a public face. This is&nbsp;Dream-Work. Then, as we clock off for the day, we slough off our workselves and fleetingly entertain other options. Our destination is&nbsp;Dream-Home.

Dream-Work&nbsp;and&nbsp;Dream-Home&nbsp;are two walking performances that 

Dream-Work/Dream-Home (2009)

Tan Kheng Hua

Janice Koh

Do Not Disturb - Late Checkout, Please&nbsp;features the stories behind four couples in a budget hotel room.&nbsp;


Do Not Disturb - Late Checkout, Please (2008)

Sky Duet&nbsp;is an audio companion designed for and inspired by the Singapore Flyer. Listeners access the work on the Singapore Flyer through headphones and an mp3 player, as they embark on a thirty-minute journey into the sky and back.

The Flyer is a dreamcatcher, spinning wheel, Jacob’s ladder, a giant radar tuning in on peoples’ thoughts and conversations about death, clouds, city lights…and all the small wonders that make up a life. The listener hears voices that move in and out of sync with their o

Sky Duet (2008)

Where do your memories live?

Tree/House is a two-part performance about how we remember in a city of forgetting. First a tree, then a house, providing the starting points for an exercise in modern storytelling, which weaves objects, images and anecdotes together in a provocative and poignant remembrance of things present.

Tree Duet explores our continuing entanglement with trees by presenting a theatrical meditation on the things they make us think and do. An eco-performance minus the moralizing, spel

Tree / House (2008)

Ho Tzu Nyen

Not one, but three productions about Shakespeare's King Lear, questioning the production of Lear itself. Singaporean visual artist and film-maker Ho Tzu Nyen turns theatre maker in this intriguing trilogy which has as its starting point&nbsp;three well-known critical texts on&nbsp;Lear by Marvin Rosenberg, Jonathan Goldberg and Wilson Knight. Giving these&nbsp;tracts flesh and blood incarnations through&nbsp;dramatizations of would-be scenarios of an audition, a rehearsal and a&nbsp;post-show discussion, th

The King Lear Project: A Trilogy (2008)

T:>Works (TheatreWorks)

In a museum, time is confused. What looks old may be a reproduction, what looks new is actually a stained glass window from 1887.&nbsp;120&nbsp;attempts to recast the National Museum of Singapore as a host of luminescent voices.

The performance ushers the audience through the galleries, halls and exhibits playfully: inviting the audience to see this space in a different light, through alternate frames, against a wallpaper of people. The performance may take the shape of pockets of ‘happenings’, walks and

120 (2007)

A wry meditation on our continuing entanglement with trees. Interweaving stories from colonial history and the modern Asian city with simple effects and actions, spell#7 creates a delicate theatrical ecology of ideas and images: eco-performance minus moralizing.


Tree Duet (2007)

Each April, spell#7 presents a new performance about life and love to the Power of Two.

This year, performer Paul Rae adds two new snapshots to the album. In XO, Paul shares a cognac with a certain troubled Thai politician, and draws on his travels in Thailand and his encounters with death to suggest an unusual solution to his drinking buddy's problems.

In Enfold, Paul hooks up with Jeremy Hsu, a Chinese-American toddler from a kid's TV show. As he takes instruction from Jeremy in the fine art of fold

Duets 2 (2006)

Assistant Playwright

A series of short, sharp duologues written and performed by Kaylene Tan and Paul Rae.&nbsp;Duets&nbsp;explores life and love to the power of two.&nbsp;

Interspersed with the sounds and stories of some of pop's most enduring duets, 10 vignettes chart the ups and downs of two people making a life together when they are supposed to be making a living. From the mundane to the magical, the frumpy to the funky, stories and told, music is played, and the sly work of love does its thing.


Duets (2005)

Devisor

Listen to the sounds, the stories, the noise, the whispers, the secrets, follow the orders, get lost, be found, investigate further, check the map, drink some water, keep your eyes peeled... Two narrators compete for your attention: ghosts or lovers, they have gone down this route many times before and this time they implore you to follow.

Along the way there is plenty to see, nothing to lose and much to discover.

Plunge yourself into a rich cinematic imaginary world suggested by sounds, music and voi

Desire Paths (2005 - 2010)

Writer

A woman desires to be a mother. Another desires for a mother. And one who is a mother. Stories of a woman’s hidden desires and memories are told through a series of five intimate episodes. Share in her longing as she crosses between time and space, between dreams and reality. Set against Mother’s Grief,&nbsp;a black-and-white Hong Kong film made in 1961,&nbsp;Ma: Moment&nbsp;is presented in an architectural pavilion of reimagined old shophouses and cinema screens, built on the site of Chinatown’s infamous D

Ma: Moment (2004)

Hypnotically moody and sexy. A relationship between a man and a woman. One scene, one space, one story, and five different outcomes. Growing apart and coming back again. It is not a love story. It is a luminous story about one man’s search for balance. We invite you to enter the Black Box, where a melding of Ayurvedic senses await you. Swathed in George Chua’s hypnotic soundscape and Paul Rae and Kaylene Tan’s sensuous text, delicately textured by Ben Slater’s film,&nbsp;Balance&nbsp;is a treat to rebalance

Balance (2003)

I remember the blood rushing to my head when I felt his tongue in my mouth, licking the insides of my mouth. And our tongues met and did a strange and delicious flicking dance, circling slowly then darting around. He sucked my lips – the upper then the lower, ever so slowly… I thought I was going to melt. I was one puddle of wet desire. Time stood still – we were the only two hungry mouths in the world. Screw Christmas. Fuck politics. Whatever to the rest of the world. This went on for hours. Gimme more.


Pulse (2003)

We... never thought we'd need each other like this. There are various gangsters in this world, and we are&nbsp;amongst them. Not easy, but possible. It’s about being together. Sharing space, energy, priorities. We look out for each other. Like I said before, we hold our own. We move, we move on, and a question arises: how do you move differently? How manoeuvre beyond the radar, deflect attention? We do not misbehave, not in any conventional sense. We are not rabble-rousers, insurgents, revolutionaries. We d

Various Gangsters (2002)

The ambassador has been at large too long. Home once more, his thoughts turn to the places he's lived and the people he's loved. In his twilit memory, everything overlaps. The nun and the cowboy shoot the breeze, the ice queen gets fresh with the sleazebag, the pulp novelist writes stories of lost love fit to burst your heart. It's all one to the old man in the funny shirt, as he conjures fantasies out of forgetting, and festivities out of trauma: a remix, with a mashed up soundtrack to match, and digital i

7x7 (2002)

Two beautiful losers scour the city for the relics of faith. As they bear witness to the heaven held in these everyday things, they deliver up lessons on impotence, the afterlife and other modern headaches. Not only do they share their prophecies and revelations with us, but also their take-outs and tidbits. During one of these lessons something bad happens and all hell is let loose. We can't say anymore about that now...


Beautiful Losers (2002)

Two women stake all love, all tenderness, all blood, sweat and tears on the final fling of the last night before Virtue comes a-knocking. My Last Night in Sin: a micro-musical about risks, riches and rolling good times.&nbsp;


My Last Night in Sin (2001)

Bodies in Flight

fluffboy visited hunny.bunny's website, shygirl7 met 6wasabe9 in a chatroom. Now it's double happiness twice over. But real life is messy. Do you know where he's been? Does she? Across continents where differences of language and culture, shoe-size and disease resistance create turbulence in the flow of information and capital, Double Happiness jacks into the body that braves time-zones and economy class to get fleshy with another.


Double Happiness (2000)

In&nbsp;Bud,&nbsp;two stories combine to make many. On the one hand, there is a tale of six performers in a Garden City, haunted by their life-changing experiences of a mysterious green-fingered cowboy called Bud. On the other, there are fragments of&nbsp;Mad Dog Blues:&nbsp;a madcap caper of a play by Sam Shepard populated by an assortment of lost and drifting casualties of popular culture.&nbsp;

At the heart of both stories if a quest: For a new Bud, and for treasure. And, as with all picaresque journe

Bud (1999)

High altitude, high drama. For the star with the beautiful feet, love is in the air. Come fly with&nbsp;Meena &amp; Me.


Meena and Me (1999)

apocalyso! is about finding yourself at the end of the millenium without a partner for the ball. It is about playing dirty to get one and coming clean as the clock strikes midnight. Inspired by the sounds and footsteps of Latin America and Cowboy Mouth by Sam Shepard, spell#7 throws in a few ingredients of their own: spying, romance, cultural differences, confessions and pre-millenial tension.


apocalypso! (1997)

This is a play about "actors and you darling people out there".&nbsp;In 1857, the European community banned the staging of street opera in Penang on the ground that it caused social chaos. As a result, the Chinese community held a strike to protest against their entertainment being taken away. The play is based on this actual historical event.&nbsp;

Children of the Pear Garden (1992)

Musician

Actors Theatre Circle

I wrote the first draft of MY MOTHER SAID I NEVER SHOULD in 1985, when I was&nbsp;twenty-five... and spent about three years re-writing it. The play was premiered&nbsp;in Manchester and its success was followed up by a run at the Royal Court Theatre&nbsp;in London.

I wrote it because I didn’t know of any plays about mothers and daughters,&nbsp;although we have hundreds of years worth of plays about fathers and sons, or sons&nbsp;and mothers. Yet it seems to me that a woman's relationship with her mother,

My Mother Said I Never Should (1990)

Assistant Stage Manager

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“You look to me. Eyes close, eyes open. I remember too.&nbsp;Like the clouds we named her after, she drifted in and out of our lives.”

In the Silence of Your Heart&nbsp;is an invitation to enter the world of a charming politician and inveterate drinker. Lend him your ears because he needs to talk.

Thian has been paralysed for 13 years. He’s been still and silent all this time but his mind has not stopped dancing. He gets by with the two things he does have: his memory and his imagination. Today, his w

Kaylene Tan

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