Emergency Stairs

Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts

Where does Chinese-language theatre go from here?"If it dies right here and now, do we throw a party or hold a wake?"Directed by Liu Xiaoyi and co-created with the inaugural graduates of NAFA’s BA (Hons) in Contemporary Chinese Theatres, Temporary Chinese Theatres brings together six emerging artists standing at the threshold between student and practitioner.As audiences dwindle, new work becomes rare, and linguistic borders blur, has Chinese-language theatre slipped into a small circle sustained mostly by 

Temporary Chinese Theatres (2025)

Lighting Coordinator

The Finger Players

Every word from this line on is fiction and fantasy.&nbsp;In 1992, some few theatre companies moved into a building. Unbeknownst to them, they were all puppets. But these puppets had a home, transient and volatile as it may be.&nbsp;Some facts are present from this point on.&nbsp;Curated by Core Team Member Ellison Tan, Puppet Origin Stories @ ONE-TWO-SIX: Only Puppets in the Building is an obsession about the puppets that live and breathe in the building and their vibrant yet volatile homes. It is also an 

Puppet Origin Stories @ ONE-TWO-SIX: Only Puppets in the Building (2025)

Lighting Designer

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)

Spatial Designer

Birds Migrant Theatre

Birds Migrant Theatre returns to the Fringe with another important play that focuses on current world issues—from war to the refugee crisis—and how these tragedies pose questions to our common humanity. The Troupe looks at how people who are affected by displacement strive for a more positive future—not just for themselves, but for their families and community. Will suffering and desperation bring out the best in people—or the worst? What is the price of compassion?

The Troupe (2025)

Dive into the enchanting underwater world with Phinny, a gentle dolphin, and Wally, an enthusiastic whale. In their vibrant ocean home, filled with coral figurines and playful adventures, these unlikely friends explore the wonders and face the challenges of the sea. With ship threats and pollution encroaching on their home, Phinny and Wally discover that unity and friendship are their greatest allies. Together, their unbreakable bond reminds us that true friends never leave each other behind, no matter the 

Phinny & Wally (2024)

Drama Box

Air is a verbatim play, intimately sharing the authentic voices of the Orang Seletar, an indigenous coastal community that once lived in Singapore. Through interviews and conversations, the play unfolds their stories, struggles, and resilience as they compromise with the encroaching changes to ensure the survival of not only their people, but more importantly, their identity. As the community strives to preserve its heritage, the verbatim captures the raw emotions, dilemmas, and unique perspectives of the O

Air (2024)

The Necessary Stage

Being a woman is tough. Being an Indian woman is even tougher. We must be independent, but not too independent that we tarnish the family name. We must be strong enough to withstand the constant scrutiny that our bodies, minds and personalities are subject to. We’re too dark, too short, too thin, too educated, too loud, too much. Our friends still ask us if we speak ‘Indian’. Or worse, they assume we are Indian just because we are a certain shade of brown.Written by The Necessary Stage’s Associate Artist Si

Happy Indian Women (2023)

The Kaizen M.D.

A haunting dance theatre performance, combining text, movement, and dance, exploring themes of guilt, madness, and the subconscious. Presented by The Kaizen M.D. (Multidisciplinary) Collective. Supported by National Arts Council and Arts Fund.Immerse yourself in the dark and mysterious world of 'Shadows of The Black Cat.' Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's chilling tale, this mesmerizing dance theatre performance, scripted by Adib Kosnan and directed by Norisham Osman, blends text, movement, and dance forms. Gui

Shadows of The Black Cat (2023)

Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

Once upon a time, not so long ago, a prince, an explorer and a girl lived on the idyllic island of Batu Bulat. Whilst each of them led their own exciting life, which at first glance seemed as different as night and day, they soon found out that they were more similar than they were different.Join our islanders as they encounter an adventure together which takes them on different paths but ultimately leads them to understanding what empathy is and that there is always more than one perspective to any story.A

A Prince, An Explorer and A Girl - The Story of Batu Bulat (2023)

Teater Kami

We begin in a housing estate: Salma is the new neighbour, who lives with a husband that’s either absent or always arguing with her when present. Then, there is Arah, who thinks her mother favours her brother and blames her for the way their lives are now. Finally, we have Juminah, who dwells on her past as her present is too lonely to bear—she holds on to the memories of her first love, the happiest days of her life.&nbsp;The walls between the flats are too thin and everyone is always listening to one anot

Kemas (2023)

Rupa co.lab

A damsel is stranded on the moon without her memory, but with an adult-sized poetry-spouting rabbit. As they attempt to unravel the truth behind the absurdity, 385,000 km away, a Malay household grapples with the intricacies of their current state.

Mak, in her zealousness of preparing for one of the religious milestones, the mini-pilgrimage, is confronted with the harsh reality that she has been living her daily life with her non-mahram* adopted son.

Written by Raimi Safari and directed by Adib Kosnan

Rindu di Bulan (2022)

Grace Kalaiselvi

Five people wake up in a strange place with no exit. They do not know one another and cannot recall anything about themselves. With no knowledge of why or how they arrived at this place, they sense that it is unsafe. Whatever lurks around, is not pleasant. Will they be harmed, or will they manage to escape?&nbsp;Be entranced by the mystery of Marma Medai – Theerppu (The Judgement), a new play with 5 characters borrowed from long-running 1960s radio play series, Marma Medai by M K Narayanan.Performed in Tami

Marma Medai – Theerppu (The Judgement) (2021)

Saratha and Rathi live together in a peaceful home, playing hide-and-seek and, telling each other amazing imaginative stories to pass the day. Saratha loves her job as a printmaker! She works with colours, designs and patterns on her sarees. Rathi wants to join in the fun too!But Rathi soon realises something, or rather, someone is missing. She doesn’t know where he has gone, or if he is coming home.Saratha puts on a brave face, to help Rathi be strong. The mother-daughter pair go on a journey through stori

Amma's Sarees (2021)

Production Designer

Farah Ong

Deonn is intrigued by a bird flying past their house. How beautiful the bird looks, zooming here and there. What wonderful wings it has! Can she also fly? She wishes she had wings too.She decides an adventure is in order! Inspired by penguins and all the other wonderful and colourful birds that come in different shapes, sizes and patterns, she sets out to learn from the different creatures she encounters along the way.Deonn’s mother is afraid for her, comforting her when things get too loud and overwhelming

I Nak Fly (I Want to Fly) (2021)

Ahmad Jihad has a secret struggle; one that no one needs to know. Ramlan harbours a dual identity—and multiple uniforms. Ramlah is a happy housewife and livestream baker. Zana plays in the duplicitous waters of online dating. When an old public swimming complex is set to be demolished, what is private gets forced to the surface.

Written by Hazwan Norly and directed by Rizman Putra,&nbsp;Pandan&nbsp;is a contemplative and occasionally surreal exploration of the intersections where our faith, public identi

Pandan (2021)

Teater Ekamatra

baca skrip: #_____ is a monthly series of online Malay play readings happening from May to August 2020. Putting the spotlight on the written text, the platform revisits seminal works by Singapore Malay playwrights. This series hopes to create the space to consider the resonance of the text today, appreciating the textures in the use of the Malay language while peeping into the history of contemporary Malay playwriting.From re-discovering the familiar and being surprised by the new, we invite you to re-acqua

baca skrip: #Causeway (2020)

Cast

Fezhah Maznan

baca skrip: #IkanCantik (2020)

A night-hour safehouse for the troubled youths, dropouts, runaways and delinquents of the Malay community is run by a pair of ex-offenders. When external intervention looms, it will take their collective efforts to keep the walls of their home up. Or will they come tumbling down? Written by Nessa Anwar, Rumah Dayak is an unflinching look at the struggle to guard a home built out of circumstances surrounding poverty, deprivation and abuse.

Performed in Malay and English, with English surtitles. Rating to 

Rumah Dayak (2019)

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Bulan Madu (2018)

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.&nbsp;

The maid, the employer and the MP's wife. Are they all model citizens?&nbsp;


Model Citizens (2010)

Sound Programmer

Cake Theatrical Productions

Temple sees the invention of a mythological universe&nbsp;where all the quarters of the world are at odds. A sports&nbsp;hall, once the diplomatic meeting arena of the now&nbsp;opposing sides, stands desolate.

Seven people, assailed, stand at the entrance of the great&nbsp;hall. Quickly, they enter and bolt the doors. Some nights&nbsp;they hear pounding on the doors but they keep very&nbsp;still and do nothing. Within the inner sanctum, they create their own rules, find their own order. Above all,&nbsp;t

Temple (2008)

Sound Operator

Intercultural Theatre Institute

Theatre Training & Research Programme

Müller wrote Hamletmachine in 1977 in East Germany, and called it the description of a petrified hope, an effort to articulate a despair so that it can be left behind. Banned by the East German authorities, it received its first staging in Brussels in 1978.

Created in an era when communism began to crumble and capitalist society was to emerge from the debris, the play places Hamlet and Ophelia in the midst of 20th Century political, economic and social change.


Hamletmachine (2008)

Stage Crew

A dynamic and compelling work of physical theatre examining the kamikaze spirit. War is by no means something that starts overnight, but rather a very calculated preparation by political forces, The indoctrination of the glory of death and the brandishing of the rifle and sword from the corporeal expression of six actors reveals how humans can lose the sense of being Human.

The cast has already undergone two and a half years of full-time contemporary theatre training , including immersions in Noh theatre

The Divine Wind and Tears Lost in the Rain (2008)

y grec&nbsp;is a book of poems by Madeleine Lee and Eleanor Wong. It comprises two voices, each with a different take on the same scenes, sounds, sights, people and myths of Greece. In a new offering by Cake Theatrical Productions,&nbsp;y grec&nbsp;is presented as a performance of literature, weaving together poetry, installation and sound architecture to unfold an invigorating new way of encountering spoken literature.&nbsp;


y grec (2007)

Production Stage Manager

Sound Coordinator

ACTION Theatre

I wonder sometimes if a writer enjoys his solitude too much.

All the company that he needs is a pen and paper, and he creates a dialogue with himself in many guises and alteregos.

Lately, I have wondered if I thrive on that too much.

Not being in the throes of being in a relationship, I sneer at, tickled by and (usually by the end of it all) empathise with my friends and love ones in their fights, breakups and everything in between in and out of relationships. Being an unwitting witness to their em

Real Men Fake Orgasms (2007)

Sebuah bayangan murung menyelimuti bandar, apabila Perata, dengan bantuan ciptaan terbarunya, mengerjakan jenayah terbesar abad ini:

Pencurian Bahasa.

Seluruh bandar mengalami kegenjotan berkomunikasi sedang penduduk-penduduknya&nbsp;kehilangan keupayaan untuk berbahasa.

Ketiga-tiga perwire kami; Mat Smart, Mat Kental dan Mat Bunga, menerjah untuk&nbsp;menyelamatkan mangsa-mangsa yang kekeluan.&nbsp;Namun, dalam usaha mereka yang murni ini, mereka harus menempuh pelbagai misteri penuh dengan cabara

Mat Champion (2007)

Stage Manager

The Theatre Practice

A mother enjoys a close and playful relationship with her young children.

This intimacy is gradually lost as the children grow up and create their own lives, be it through going abroad for studies, entering the work force or building families of their own.

The use of new languages and new media, coupled with changes in lifestyle and society, widen this gap of communication.&nbsp;

Mama, on the brink of depression, turns to her cat for consolation and company, and begins to join the pet on its nightl

Mama Looking For Her Cat (2006)

Adaptation

Actor

Playing. Playfulness. Games. These are almost lost to us in the frenetic automation of our daily lives. Work has become such a representation of adulthood and responsibility that the idea of playing has become synonymous with childishness and a waste of time.&nbsp;Play Play&nbsp;is about re-discovering the freedom within ourselves to play, and about finding how to see everything around us as a game: not to win, but to enjoy every moment of it, not to succeed, but to discover the infinite possibilities.

P

Play Play (2006)

Performer

Set in a prison cell of closed-circuit cameras,&nbsp;Impenjarament offers an insight into&nbsp;prison culture,&nbsp;examining&nbsp;the masculinity, machismo&nbsp;and eroticism of the Malay psyche.&nbsp;Confined in prison, eight men with a dark past contemplate a potentially darker future.&nbsp;As they try to&nbsp;salvage what little dignity they have left, the notion of personal freedom is&nbsp;turned on its head.


Impenjarament (2005)

Lighting Operator

A world of play exploding with emotions

A world of imagination explored through expressive bodies&nbsp;


Play Play (2005)

In this interpretation of the text, the figure of Admiral Zheng He, both icon and iconoclast, undergoes further interrogation. Importing their own cultural background as Singaporean Malays into the work, the artists involved will seek the spaces in the text which will allow them to question their own hybrid and syncretic identities. Various composite layers will be added to Kuo's already rich and multifarious text, which will include parallel texts from Malay historical documents, as well as extensions of v

Keturunan Laksamana Tak Ada Anu (2003)

Have you ever wondered why our kind likes to play? At times the serious is trivialised. Often the tragic is caused by too much play. Can you deny that you have never played around?

But there is nothing wrong with playing. If we do not, how will we ever learn if something is pleasurable or otherwise? Whether it is achievable or meant to fail? If not for play, a lot of people will not be doing what they love doing now. Such as singing, teaching, trading and many more... a lot of people began with play!



main² (2002)

Intergalaktika menjanjikan satu pengembaraan yang menarik dan menawan, buat yang muda baik pun yang dewasa. Berpusat pada&nbsp;tema pemuliharan bumi, Intergalaktika menyusuri perjalanan sekumpulan kanak-kanak yang terdampar di sebuah planet yang dahulunya pemah digunakan sebagai tempat pembuangan sampah. Terpisah dari ibu bapa mereka, kanak-kanak ini mempelajari unsur daya cipta dan berdikari, menjalani satu sistem hidup tanpa bimbingan golongan dewasa. Kemuncak pengembaraan kanak- kanak ini ialah apabila m

Intergalaktika (2002)

A collaboration across the Straits, Teater Ekamatra and The Actors Studio explore and articulate the issues on both sides of the Causeway. Separation, integration, alienation, kinship, hurt and reconciliation are unsparingly scrutinised in this script written by award-winning Singaporean playwright Alfian Sa'at. Be prepared for a daring interpretation fused with sensitivity and cutting insight.&nbsp;

Two motifs recur throughout the episodic play, blood and the bird. Two seemingly discordant chords locked

Causeway (2002)

Tapak 7&nbsp;is an exploration into 'found' texts, especially Islamic literature that pertains to death; its rites, rituals, spiritual significance, and what has been promised in the afterlife. Using only the actor's body and simple props, it is a meditation on the psychology of an individual who is deeply attached to not only her mother, but also to her mother's grave. A study on loss and healing, it is the story about one person who tries to make meaning out of death, even when she has been brought up to 

Tapak 7 (2001)

An exploration of Malays and Chinese in Singapore past and present, the play is divided into six episodes:

Sang Nila Utama has a vision for tomorrow.

People run amok.

SitiMat tells the story of the nangka.

Three sisters try to resist rape.

Father knows best.

Virgins bathe at the well.

Using music, movement, humour and strong visuals,&nbsp;Pillars&nbsp;weaves yesterday's folklore and fables with today's images and metaphors, and brings you into a quirky new world which is also your home.

Pillars (1997)

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A night-hour safehouse for the troubled youths, dropouts, runaways and delinquents of the Malay community is run by a pair of ex-offenders. When external intervention looms, it will take their collective efforts to keep the walls of their home up. Or will they come tumbling down?

Written and directed by Nessa Anwar, Rumah Dayak is an unflinching look at the struggle to guard a home built out of circumstances surrounding poverty, deprivation and abuse. Rumah Dayak is the inaugural production by new collec

Rumah Dayak by Nessa Anwar

ANGKAT: A Definitive, Alternative, Reclaimed Narrative of a Native&nbsp;subverts norms of genre and dramatic form to tell the intertwining histories of a mother and daughter, and a re-imagining of a young Singapura trying to find her footing amidst the rough seas.Salma, an aspiring singer, is an adopted child whose struggle with identity is played out on a national stage.Mak, a former islander, tries to process the loss of her home from the mainland, with a little help from some friends.The play blends fant

Emanorwatty Salleh

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