The Finger Players

A spark of curiosity takes Joshua UP &amp; DOWN through the sky and under the sea; a fiery Auntie tries to reclaim her CHOPE-d kopitiam seat; a despondent Uncle begins healing from grief through an unexpected friendship with a puppy named RINGO; and a man and woman are locked in an absurdist romantic pursuit, filled with magical mishaps caused by a single HACHOOO.Presented by The Finger Players, Puppets Encore! is a collection of four puppetry skits addressing themes of human connection, love, loss, and the

Puppets Encore! (2024)

Project Manager

PENG lives alone – in a world of his own, with rules of his own, but this pandemic is not just his own. He sets about creating the world he wants to live in, making decisions, drawing timetables, living by the clock; tick-tock, tick-tock.

But PENG still dreams, and in these dreams, his mind dreams of a different world. He listens to his routine and listens to the world, and eventually listens to his mind. What does it say? What should he do? Should he do this alone, or should it include other people too?

The World of Our Own (2021)

Front of House Manager

Nine Years Theatre

Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre

Nine Years Theatre and Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre jointly present to you First Fleet. The audience will be seated on the stage of the Cultural Centre’s auditorium, as they set sail with the players to explore the relationships between theatre and humanity.

The year is 1787. The First Fleet of the British Empire sets sail for Australia with a group of convicts aboard, to establish a penal colony. Along the way, the Governor instructs one of his lieutenants to rehearse a play with the convicts, with

First Fleet (2019)

Stage Manager

A journey that transforms her life from the ordinary to the extraordinary, getting everything she has ever wanted. Well, almost everything...

A brilliant but frustrated academic, Faust has achieved all that she can with her knowledge. Dissatisfied with what she has, she yearns for more in her life. One day she is visited by an unexpected visitor, Mephistopheles, who is full of surprises. Mephistopheles makes a deal with her; spend the rest of her life with him, as he shows her a lifetime of everything sh

FAUST/US (2019)

Lear is dead, the entire country mourns. The “Fools Society” presents Lear Is Dead -- a performance that tells the story of Lear:&nbsp;

The ageing Lear had given his land to his two elder daughters, and disowned the truthful youngest daughter. The retired Lear insisted on retaining a portion of his power. However, his two newly empowered daughters began to find their increasingly senile father intolerable. Finally, Lear was driven out of the house and into the night storm, to wander like a madman on a he

Lear Is Dead (2018)

A collaboration between Macau Arts Festival 2018 and Nine Years Theatre, to be performed in Macau and Singapore.

Artistic director of Nine Years Theatre, Nelson Chia, leads a team of actors and designers from Macau and Singapore in a re-imagination of Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s most influential character “Miss Julie”. Together, they will create the new work&nbsp;Pissed Julie.

How are the frustrations and hopes of Miss Julie, who lived in a European estate in the 19th Century, relevant to t

Pissed Julie (2018)

“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)

Assistant Stage Manager

Roots is the winner of The Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards 2013 for Best Production and Best Script. Written, directed and performed by Oliver Chong from The Finger Players, Roots centres on his journey in search of his ancestral home in China. With only the scantiest clues to go on, he struggles to uncover a family secret which may or may not be true. Fixated on finding the truth, Chong's multilingual monologue skilfully and humorously portrays the different characters encountered on his increasingly co

Roots (2017)

Surtitlist

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)

SIFA is proud to open its 2017 edition with Art Studio, a Singapore-Mandarin theatre commission performed with English surtitles. Set against the backdrop of Singapore's changing landscape from the 1960s to the new millennium, Art Studio begins with the story of a young school drop-out, Ji Zong, who is coerced by his friend to become a model for life drawing by a group of artists.

From that point on, the narrative branches out, weaving the lives of these wildly disparate artists into a web of intriguing 

Art Studio (2017)

Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

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)

A multi-disciplinary site-specific production featuring international puppeteers and designers from Hong Kong, China and Singapore! Traditions and modernity meet in this site-specific production that takes audience through a corridor of memories and stories performed by Master Puppeteers from China, Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as Sound and Visual Artists. This eclectic mix of artists is specially picked for this project to create an immersive multi-disciplinary theatrical journey that articulates the n

The Collectors (2016)

From the sea comes a red demon. Certain that the demon is here to devour humans, the villagers are in fear. By the sea live three characters -- A woman, her brother, the village idiot, and a man who gets jealous easily. Miraculously, the trio find themselves communicating with the demon despite not speaking its language. Moreover, they realize it is here on a mission. Meanwhile, the villagers march, torches in hand, ready to kill the demon...

Written by acclaimed Japanese playwright Noda Hideki and direc

Red Demon (2016)

At the edge of a city, near the end of autumn, a group of people, struggling to survive the hardships of daily living, spends nights at a rental lodge for the poor. Among them we find a pot-mender, a busker, a thief, a retired actor, a prostitute, etc. They drink to pass the days. Some of them have long given up on life while others hold on to unrealistic dreams. One day, an old man arrives. He seems to stir up new hopes in the hearts of these people who dwell at the lowest rungs of society. Or are these ho

The Lower Depths (2015)

Props

Singapore Repertory Theatre

The Little Company

故事里的金发姑娘走进森林，闯入一栋似没人住的房子，她把那房子当成自己的家，结果搞到一团糟！原来那栋房子是三只熊的家，当它们看到金发姑娘一手造成的混乱局面，都感到很下开心。

《金发姑娘和三只熊》提醒儿童观众，不要乱碰别人的财物，否则就要承担后果。

On a trip into the forest, Goldilocks ventures into a seemingly uninhabited house. In the process of making herself at home, she turns the place into a gigantic mess! Little does she know that the house belongs to a family of three bears, who are not too pleased to witness her handiwork.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears reminds children not to fiddle with the belongings of others

金发姑娘和三只熊 (2015)

Master of the house, Orgon, has invited religious Tartuffe to stay with the family. Not only that, his admiration for him is near insanity. He wants his daughter to marry Tartuffe, before making him the sole heir to his wealth. The rest of the family - the wife, son, daughter, and even the maid - has seen the hypocrite behind Tartuffe's pious appearance, except for Orgon who remains blinded by faith. As such, the family finds themselves at wit's end. How do you make a fox reveals its true nature? How do you

Tartuffe (2015)

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)

Pangdemonium

Pangdemonium - producers of the acclaimed Spring Awakening and the hit Swimming With Sharks - brings you the Singapore premiere of the Pulitzer Prize winning RABBIT HOLE, a poignant, powerful and surprisingly humorous portrait of a family searching for what remains possible in the most impossible of situations.

Becca (Janice Koh) and Howie (Adrian Pang) are struggling to recover from a shocking accident. Caught in a maze of memory, longing, guilt, blame, sarcasm and tightly controlled rage, Howie lashes 

Rabbit Hole (2013)

Cake Theatrical Productions

5.1 refers to the six channel surround sound multichannel audio system - the most commonly used layout in both commercial cinemas and home theatres. It is also about the search for self in a densely populated space, a space with a population that is reaching a 5.1 million mark.

Decimal Points 5.1&nbsp;is a wordless movement based performance, incorporating radio frequency motion sensors, neo futuristic costumes and unconventional live vocal experimentation, colliding techno toys with raw human physicalit

Decimal Points 5.1 (2012)

Production

T:>Works (TheatreWorks)

Adapted from a Hokkien short story by Chien Swee Teng in his 1979 novel Bak Teng&nbsp;(Diced Meat), the&nbsp;enfant terribles&nbsp;of Singapore contemporary art, Vertical Submarine, invoke bittersweet tragedies of home and family with their theatrical debut. Fusing dioramas, dramaturgy, and installation art, the performance unfolds over decades within a flat. It begins with a bitchy couple who pester a young man to sell his apartment. We then hear the sounds of demolition and concrete debris falling, and an

Dust: A Recollection (2011)

Fear Of Writing&nbsp;portrays a playwright’s creative handicap – the writer’s block – under intense anxiety and scrutiny. Through this crisis, Tan uncovers the existentialism of self-censorship and freedoms in Singapore. An urgent provocation of the country’s boundaries – as bound to art, artist, citizen and humanity.&nbsp;Fear Of Writing&nbsp;proposes a theatrical parable for the politics of today, a future for the Singapore dream.

“This play is about the complacency of the average Singaporean, of theat

Fear of Writing (2011)

Stage Crew

Teater Ekamatra

Nadirah is the popular and articulate Vice-President of her university's Muslim Society. She convenes inter-faith meetings where students talk about how they should respect on another's spaces.

Nadirah is also the product of a mixed marriage. Her father is a Malaysian Malay and her mother a Singaporean Chinese who had converted to Islam.&nbsp;

One day, Nadirah's mother tells her that she's going to re-marry. To a man who's not Muslim. Nadirah's best friend Maznah believes that everyone has a right to 

Nadirah (2011)

Lighting Operator

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