The Finger Players

An Artist considers her mortality, what her art has given her and what she will leave behind. She engages a documentary filmmaker to create what she considers to be her final legacy, but is stumped when her iron strong opinions perspectives are being challenged by him, and a robot.Presented by&nbsp;The&nbsp;Finger Players and supported by&nbsp;the&nbsp;Qualcomm Foundation,&nbsp;The&nbsp;Ageing&nbsp;Artist&nbsp;is a puppetry performance that weaves together elements of STEM. Targeted at families, this piece 

The Ageing Artist (2023)

Performer

Puppeteer

Facilitator

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)

Cast

Adib Kosnan

Three siblings, Azhar, Ashraf and Azura face the unenviable task of settling their Bapak’s estate and other affairs after he passed away.&nbsp;Expect disappointment, despair, tension and regret to loom large in this family drama as they try to carry out their responsibilities while grappling with their own regrets and the grieving process.&nbsp; Audience participation is key to help the siblings come to a decision about what they should do and resolve the crisis in this thought-provoking forum theatre. Do w

Sukar (2022)

Elderly scams are on the rise, and shame is in abundance.An elderly couple navigates technology together at a digital confidence workshop. There are too many buttons on the home screen, too many apps to download, and too many associations to remember. They struggle to adapt what they have learnt in real life, but life gets in the way. Through the device in their hands, they navigate love, grief and multiple scams.Presented by The Finger Players and supported by the Qualcomm Foundation, SCAM ON YOU is a perf

Scam On You (2022)

Batu Bulat is an island-home to many wonderful villagers. The landscape of Batu Bulat is marked by a hill, many fields for endless hours of fun and an ice-factory. Three characters meet by chance one day, and something good… and bad happens. The story is different for each of them. &nbsp;

An ice-factory prince, an island adventurer, and a&nbsp;putu piring&nbsp;seller all clash in their accounts of what really happened that sunny day by the foot of Bukit Batu Bulat. &nbsp;

Inspired by Chimamanda Ngozi 

The Putu Piring Incident at Batu Bulat (2020)

Drama Box

Tanah•Air 水•土：A Play In Two Parts&nbsp;looks at the dispossession and loss of the indigenous Malays and Orang Seletar of Singapore. "Tanah" (land) and "Air" (water) were their homes (Tanah Air) until the arrival of foreign interventions, displacing them from both. The deep sense of loss continues to be felt today.

Tanah&nbsp;is inspired by Isa Kamari’s Duka Tuan Bertakhta. Set in 1819 Singapore, a young girl loses her home on the sea and is forced to come ashore. As she navigates around the various parti

Tanah·Air 水·土: A Play In Two Parts (2019)

The Necessary Stage

The Necessary Stage’s critically acclaimed play,&nbsp;Off Centre, returns 26 years after its premiere in 1993. Written by Haresh Sharma and directed by Alvin Tan,&nbsp;Off Centre&nbsp;is a landmark play in the history of Singapore theatre, best remembered for presenting an honest and unflinching look at mental illness and the stigma surrounding it.

Off Centre&nbsp;follows the unlikely friendship between Saloma and Vinod, and traces their journeys as they deal with their personal conflicts as well as soci

Off Centre (2019)

Teater Ekamatra

In 2003, Teater Ekamatra created Projek Suitcase, a project with a poor theatre format involving one actor and one suitcase. It is now presented as a site-specific mini-festival of monologues exploring the power of storytelling through the solitary voice. Projek Suitcase is inspired by the medicine man, selling ointments in back alleys, equipped with only his bag and many tales to convince his audience.

Die Before You Die:&nbsp;this powerful quote has managed to find its way into many religions, beliefs 

Projek Suitcase (2018)

Collaborator

The phenomenon 'life flashes before your eyes' occur, during a death or a near-death experience, which the deceased or nearly-deceased, rapidly sees the totality of their lives in a Single Moment.

Rahman Azman.

We have extracted 25 minutes of his Single Moment.

1... 2... 3...&nbsp;


Hitung (2018)

Director

Playwright

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Bulan Madu (2018)

Surtitlist

In 1943, the Japanese film 'The Tiger of Malaya' was released. Based on the life story of Tani Yutaka, a Japanese man who lived on the east coast of Malaya, the film portrayed him as a patriotic agent who liberated the Malay natives from British imperialists and Chinese capitalists.

Now, more than 70 years later, a group of actors are going to reenact scenes from the film. Real Malay actors will replace the 'brown face' Japanese actors in the original. Chinese actors will play antagonists who are 'less e

Tiger of Malaya (2018)

Salma, a National Idol hopeful, is asked to alter her image so as to appeal to the masses. As compromises are made, she starts to question her identity, creating a clash between her roots and her upbringing as an adopted child.

Salmah and her adoptive mother Khadijah are made to face the consequences of their actions in the past, present and inevitable future. Will the forces of fate and nature tear them apart or bring them closer together?


Angkat (2017)

Devisor

The lives of six pained characters are interwoven together, each checkered by cycles of abuse -&nbsp;physical, emotional and psychological -&nbsp;and rocked by violence, self-inflicted and otherwise. This includes sobering episodes of incest, domestic abuse, lifelong drug abuse and sexual violence. Underlying this is a deep, simple yearning for happiness and love that they share.&nbsp;

Main² was commissioned by Esplanade for the very first Pesta Raya -&nbsp;Malay Festival of Arts in 2002, and was the fir

Main² (2017)

Toy Factory Productions Limited

Aman, an urban city development official, questions his work of demolishing old historical buildings to make way for new cityscape. Faced with the task of explaining the impending demolition of the city's oldest heritage 'The Surrounding City', Aman experiences the wrath of the city, despair of her dwellers and confronts his personal ambivalence about the price of material gains.


Prism (2017)

Wild Rice

Step into the wild, neon-lit&nbsp;lorongs&nbsp;of&nbsp;Geylang, where a happy ending is not what you think it is.

In this wicked, saucy interplay of six original stories, meet those who have lived, loved and lost in Geylang. A pair of star-crossed lovers defy the river and cultures that separate them. Mediums and mamasans prey on lost souls. A single mother struggles to keep up with the relentless march of progress.&nbsp;A gang leader is swept up in a maelstorm of drug-fuelled violence. A civil servant f

Geylang (2016)

HATCH

Super Happy Land is the most exclusive location on Earth. Only a lucky few will get to experience life there – but as everyone knows – you don’t choose Super Happy Land, Super Happy Land chooses you! And so, five very special individuals from the world over have been handpicked to live there. And just like the name suggests, everything there makes the inhabitants Super Happy! They feast like kings –Super Happy Tummy! They are showered with gifts – Super Happy Heart! They are pampered like royalty – Super Ha

Super Happy Land (2015)

Written by Tan Tarn How, The Lady of Soul and Her Ultimate “S” Machine (first staged in 1993) is a political satire about a government which decides that a nation needs more “soul” to make it a more vibrant place. A civil servant, Derek, decides to find the best way to achieve this is by calling for a “soul search”. Three candidates—a mama- san, a left-wing radical and a representative from the arts—present their ideas on what “soul” is. After hearing them, Derek undergoes an internal debate where he must d

The Lady of Soul and Her Ultimate “S” Machine (2015)

The play unravels in the setting of a normal counselling room in a school with a teacher waiting for the arrival of three very important guests.&nbsp;On that very special day, the teacher will be confronted with honesty and truth, and in the very fragile moment of a lockdown due to an unfortunate school fire, Ms Nora is stranded and will have to accept the possibility that she is the only individual left that needs to confront certain realities of the teaching fraternitya reality that the students have so w

Lockdown (2014)

What is the meaning of life?&nbsp;

We live. We lie. We die. We who are at a constant state of war, never fail to hope for peace: “Shantih Shantih Shantih” we cried. We look for answers. We move forward in circles. We take sides in chaos. We remember what we want. We find comfort in banality. We give. We sympathise. We control.&nbsp;

We are the waste land...&nbsp;


The Wasteland (2014)

Unlike many, more popular, coming of age stories,&nbsp;TAHAN&nbsp;looks at the journey of a young man through his two years of National Service in the police force. Three years have passed since I completed my NS, but I keep re-assessing how the two years have affected me, and will continue to affect me in my decisions. This play was conceived from the echoes of silent discontent I have witnessed in the face of our society.&nbsp;

Being partly autobiographical,&nbsp;TAHAN&nbsp;is dedicated to all the law-

TAHAN (2013)

Amir Mahmood had the nation at his feet. A respected community leader, charismatic and enigmatic, he was a spitfire destined for greatness.&nbsp;

Yet at the cusp of success, a lapse in judgment, unravels first his career, then his family and finally, himself.


Mata Hati (2011)

Stage Crew

Anak Bulan Di Kampong Wa' Hassan&nbsp;tells the story of Kampong Wa' Hassan, the last Malay kampung to fall victim to Singapore's efforts at modernisation. Not quite a nostalgic trip down memory lane to a romanticised Malay kampung, this is a journey of discovery of the true worth of a kampung, filled with real-life characters in all their rawness, and their true loss in the dispossession of it.&nbsp;

Anak Bulan&nbsp;explores the kampung as the crucible of 'Malay Romanticism', investigating how Malay Sin

Anak Bulan Di Kampung Wa' Hassan (2007)

Crew

Madu II&nbsp;touches on the issue of polygamy in a modern Malay household. The play excavates the struggle of 2 women who not only share a husband, but also live under one roof. While their husband is away, both women exchange remarks and curses; and find themselves lost in a game where the instructions need a complete revision.&nbsp;

Madu II&nbsp;is a well-crafted light-hearted yet poignant look at the sensitive and difficult issue of polygamy in modern Malay marriage.


Madu II (2007)

Rendezvous Point&nbsp;focuses on a band during a jamming session. A seemingly routine activity is turned upside down when an accident claimed the life of their band member. Can this microcosm hold on and continue to pursue their dreams of making it big or will the 'ghost of band's past' haunt them from beyond?&nbsp;Rendezvous Point&nbsp;is a critique on today's society seen through the eyes of an absurdist peeking in from behind the curtains.&nbsp;


Rendezvous Point (2007)

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“Ta’at Setia”&nbsp;– Loyal and True

These were the words that the brave soldiers of the Malay Regiment lived and died by. Up until the end, they fought tooth and nail to keep Singapore from falling to the Japanese invaders. And they did, to their dying breath. How did they come to this? Did they ever think to run? What were they fighting for?

In&nbsp;The Regiment, we try to piece together the story of a few recruits in the Malay Regiment, in the years leading up to the Fall of Singapore in 1942. We wi

The Regiment by Isabella Chiam


It has been many days since we last ate. We barely manage to find some scrap of food here and there. These people, my people, my… tribe. I really hope we survive together.


A Tiny Country&nbsp;is a thought-provoking, experiential, playful, and exciting collective role-playing experience. The audience plays dual roles—one as a member of a community living in a tiny country who is invested in the country’s fate, and another as a social scientist who impartially experiments with the people’s future. The 

A Tiny Country by ATTEMPTS

Corporate conglomerate ARC has reached out to the public in a bid to decipher a mysterious databank that has surfaced on their Artificial Intelligence (AI) system named J.O.A.N.. Your profiling skills are urgently required to halt this potential international crisis.

Attempts: Singapore&nbsp;is an immersive theatrical experience that draws inspiration from Martin Crimp’s&nbsp;Attempts on Her Life. It takes audience-participants through a non-linear narrative pieced together through the accounts of variou

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