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)

Stage Manager

Surtitlist

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)

The Finger Players

A celestial stone reincarnates as the scion of a wealthy aristocratic family. Baoyu, born with a jade in his mouth, is raised as the heir and Precious Jade of the clan. The heir takes centre stage in a love rivalry between his two cousins – Daiyu and Baochai, amidst the backdrop of the family’s slow financial collapse.Presented by The Finger Players,&nbsp;Dream of the Red Chamber&nbsp;is award-winning playwright and director Chong Tze Chien’s reinterpretation of one of the four greatest Chinese classical li

Dream of the Red Chamber (2024)

Who's coming to the show?&nbsp;An old theatre. Two actors, A and O, enter.&nbsp;They tussle,&nbsp;they divide,&nbsp;they play,&nbsp;and they&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;wait...&nbsp;and wait,&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;and wait.&nbsp;Playful, witty, sharp and tragic, the work draws inspiration from physical theatre, clowning, absurdist humour and Chinese cross-talk.&nbsp;Come and be among the first to enjoy this new work by the f

Waiting For Audience (2024)

Production Stage Manager

Surtitle Operator

There once was a family of four: the father vehemently denies his own infidelity; an erudite yet loquacious old mother is confined to her bed; a son grapples with the complexities of love amid academic struggles; and a wife is plagued by the three afflictions of greed, hatred and ignorance. Their lives take a dark turn when a mysterious yet alluring homeless damsel becomes their maid, personifying the malevolent forces that torment the wife’s restless soul.  &nbsp;Drawing inspiration from various tales in t

《移心》Transplant (2024)

Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts

Imagine your own death. Filling time on an idle afternoon. Bucket list of a hamster. Hospital visit by a pop star. Ten things I learnt from a dying girl. Number seven will change your life.Spanning across 33 interconnected captivating stories and countless heartfelt moments, buckets is a kaleidoscopic look at life that offers perspectives on the universal dilemma of how to cope with the undeniable truth that time always runs out.Led by Timothy Wan, the graduating students of NAFA Diploma in Theatre (English

buckets (2023)

Production Manager

Two teenagers sneak into an old man's home for a secret rendezvous, only to be greeted with the unexpected. A young couple struggles to build a future together - with or without an ailing parent in the picture. A care home offers its residents the chance to unburden their children...and themselves.The Fall is a humorous and moving take on young people's relationships in comparison to older people, confronting the dark but very real prospect of ageing while dealing with housing and care issues.Directed by Is

The Fall (2023)

Stranded on a deserted island, a group of children must fend for themselves without any adults. Can they maintain order, or will chaos take over? Who will lead? Who will follow? And who will fall? Lord of the Flies is a classic work that delves into the descent into savagery as the children struggle for power and survival, revealing the dark aspects of human nature.Under the direction of Timothy Wan, the graduating students of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Diploma in Theatre (Mandarin Drama) invite you to ve

Lord of the Flies (2023)

Danny Yeo

Phang Kok Jun

Oliver Chong

Beep BEEEEEP!Driiiiing Driiinnnggg!VrooooooOOooooom!Rattle King finds himself living in a city bustling with loud noises.How does he deal with all the various sounds?Can he stop all the hustle and bustle?Will he be able to turn all that noise into music?This March, the Rattle King returns to Esplanade once again in this participative promenade performance.The journey starts at the Esplanade Forecourt Garden and continues to various venues in an outdoor procession.What will the King and his marching-on follo

Rattle King 2 (2023)

Emergency Stairs

A group of students embarked on a journey of reform and transformation to create their ideal school, with their individual and shared hopes, anxieties, reflections and doubts.Why are they doing it? What are they envisioning? What are their blind spots? What are the possible consequences? When all is said and done, are their dreams simply one touch away from dust – perceived as nothing but self-serving, whimsical projections of naivete? Or could these aspirational endeavours, just possibly, hint at a glint o

Dream School (2022)

A long hidden secret rises to the fore— and with it, cracks begin to appear in the familial ties between a mother and her three daughters. Are the bonds between them strong enough to weather this impending crisis?

Forced into retirement due to her ailing health, a veteran film and TV actress finds herself missing the glitz and the attention. These days, actress Lin Li Qing occupies her time thinking up ways to battle boredom, and nagging at her three daughters for not spending enough time with her. The e

Between You and Me (2022)

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

In 1879, scientific genius Thomas Edison successfully created the world's first practical incandescent bulb. He was about to light up New York and the entire world, using his Direct Current electrical system. Along came another inventor Nikola Tesla who insisted that his Alternating Current electrical system was superior to Edison's. A battle ensued, as ambitions and aspirations clashed in this "War of Currents". What drove these great minds to achieve the impossible, and what must they learn to sacrifice i

Electrify My World (2021)

The award-winning ensembles of Singapore’s Nine Years Theatre and the SITI Company from New York join hands to present this hybrid retelling of Anton Chekhov’s classic play&nbsp;Three Sisters.

Three Sisters, by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, stands as one of the most outstanding plays of his career. Olga, Masha, and Irina – the titular sisters - fritter away their lives in a provincial town, while they dream of returning to the cosmopolitan city where&nbsp;they grew up.

Chronicling their tangled re

Three Sisters (2021)

Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

Welcome to the Feelings Farmwhere feelings bloom and grow.Pay attention to their whispers,they might show you where to go…On a trip to Kranji, three children find themselves lost on The Feelings Farm where emotions are shifting landscapes they must learn to journey through, both together and alone. Guided by the mysterious Cloud, they tumble through the Jungle of Joy, brave the Field of Fear, sail across the Swamp of Sadness, and explore other familiar feelings. Come along for a magical adventure that will 

The Feelings Farm (2021)

The city of Thebes is suffering under a devastating pandemic. President Oedipus vows to put an end to the crisis and help restore the city, like he once did before. Upon consulting the Oracle, the solution is clear. Find the murderer of their previous leader, Laius. So begins a manhunt for the city’s most wanted. But as the investigation starts, secrets from the past resurface.&nbsp;

In a thrilling modern re-telling of the great Sophoclean tragedy,&nbsp;Oedipus, delves deep into how man deals with the fa

Oedipus (2021)

Four students drop a birthday surprise on their teacher Elena, but the true intention of their visit is unveiled when they attempt to persuade her to hand over the key to the safe where their exam papers are being kept. For the sake of their academic progress, they must falsify their scores; for the sake of their futures, excuses are made to justify their actions. The teacher finds herself in a predicament when her students begin coercing her. To stop them from making further mistakes, Elena stands firm and

Dear Elena (2019)

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)

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)

Toy Factory Productions Limited

12 stories, banded together by its Singaporean protagonists, which are otherwise strangers to each other. Each story is a part of the montage of millions of moments that lead us to the cosmopolitan, urban powerhouse that Singapore has become. Told by an ensemble of 7 actors,&nbsp;Here &amp; Beyond&nbsp;attempts to create a theatrical world in which to house 12 startlingly honest short stories that tell of the inimitable feelings, struggle and ideals that make us who we are.


Here and Beyond (2018)

Drama Box

The Necessary Stage

In 2016, Drama Box and The Necessary Stage presented the groundbreaking sold-out production&nbsp;Manifesto, that delved into the relationship between art and politics.

This year, the two companies collaborate once again on a brand new work that explores poverty, inequality and human dignity in Singapore.

Underclass&nbsp;tells the story of Xinyi, who finds herself in a downward spiral after losing her job and her flat. When she moves into a rental unit, she meets Johari, and they strike up an unlikely 

Underclass (2018)

T.H.E Dance Company

Cut Kafka!&nbsp;is a collaborative work between T.H.E Dance Company (T.H.E) and Nine Years Theatre (NYT), inspired by Franz Kafka’s life and works. The early drafts of the script were inspired by a number of different texts by or about Kafka—The Metamorphosis,&nbsp;The Trial,&nbsp;The Castle,&nbsp;The Hunger Artist, and personal letters addressed to his father—which were researched by writer and performer Neo Hai Bin. These texts were researched based on the initial ideas and framework laid down by co-direc

Cut Kafka! (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)

ArtsWok Collaborative

A heartwarming puppetry performance told from the point of view of a stray cat, about an elderly couple struggling to make&nbsp;end-of-life&nbsp;choices. After the show, stay and chat with our volunteers over dessert, and let us know what you think about the issues presented.


The Wind Came Home (2017)

10-year-old Eric enjoyed visiting the home of his neighbours, Habiba and Ismail. The couple, who was so fond of him, treated him like their own child. In the embrace of this warm relationship, Eric felt cared for and loved. To his young mind, the door to Habiba and Ismail’s house was a gateway to paradise. Fast forward 20 years, Eric is now 30 and has returned to his childhood home to visit his neighbours, only to uncover a shocking secret that has lain hidden in the house where he spent so many happy hours

Fundamentally Happy (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)

Mr. Lee wants to write a memoir about his political life, while Mrs. Lee cannot forget how they fell in love by the sea.

Mdm. Tan is on her way to a date that is 60 years late, but Old Kim worries that he will not reply to all those letters in time.

Old Max holds a solo concert in his heart as Er Ma captures the joyful tears in his camera.

Mdm. Teng pretties herself in front of a mirror all day, and Xiao Ding loves a good banter with anyone who would listen.

Eight senior citizens converge in a r

Red Sky (2016)

Intercultural Theatre Institute

A collective creation inspired by “Simplicity” - a poem of Argentine poet, essayist and short-story writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899 –1986).

Director Guillermo Angelelli, who draws from Eugenio Barba's principles of theatre anthropology, guides actor-students from Intercultural Theatre Institute into creating their own original material from the writings and creative works of Borges and other artists.

With text, dance, music, and the clown as metaphor for the artist, Simplicity conjures up worlds adapte

Simplicity (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

"...the more I discover, the more I am convinced that we were related, that I had to be a descendant of the Eunuch Admiral."A powerful work about castration and politics,&nbsp;Descendants of the Eunuch Admiralrecounts the legacy of the man responsible for China’s most extensive maritime expeditions in the 15th century, the legendary eunuch, Admiral Zheng He. Using the metaphor of castration, parallels are drawn between the power struggles of court eunuchs and the displacement of modern beings who make sacri

Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral (2015)

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)

“ 夜莺是什么？我怎么完全不知道？而她竟然就住在我的王国里！"

新加坡专业剧场旗下的小剧团带给你第二部华语制作，重新演绎广受欢迎的安徒生童话故事《夜莺》。这部音乐剧透过欢快歌曲，提酲我仍要懂得欣赏和珍惜周围环境。

年少的中国皇帝为一只全身褐羽毛、外貌平凡却拥有美妙歌声的夜而着迷，于是捋她活捉，饲养在镀金笼子里，作为每日的娱乐消遣。可是不久后，莺因为失去自由而不再拥有曼妙声音，她们地位也被一只会唱歌的机械乌取代。

夜莺能否在囚笼里活下来？能否重获自由展翅高飞？当机械鸟不再歌唱，故事捋会如何发展？且看夜莺与朋友们如何为她努门争取自由。

"What is it? The Nightingale? I do not know it at all, and it lives in my empire!"

Enchanted by the lilting birdsong of the plain-looking, brown Nightingale, the little Emperor of China captures and keeps her in a gilded cage fo

夜莺 (2014)

Antonio - The Merchant of Venice - is sad, but his friends cannot discover why. All the ships in which his money is invested are at sea, but he claims this is not what is worrying him - he has many ships, which makes good business sense. His best friend, Bassanio, asks Antonio to lend him even more money than he already owes him, to help him win the hand of a rich and beautiful heiress, Portia. Antonio has not got any spare cash, but agrees to borrow money to help him.&nbsp;

Portia complains about the re

The Merchant of Venice (2014)

Assistant Stage Manager

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)

Cake Theatrical Productions

Someone said the universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding.&nbsp;

Two actors move across a desert-like terrain.&nbsp;

Encounters between them gradually bring forth a dramatic landscape capturing at once, a dream-like state and the reality of their humanity.&nbsp;

A theatre performance in two acts.&nbsp;Illogic&nbsp;asks questions it can't answer and sets a path it won't follow.&nbsp;

Two actors. One moving terrain. Giving way to illogic.&nbsp;


Illogic (2013)

The Theatre Practice

The winter of death numbs a lover’s pain,
The autumn of dreams lies awake in vain,
The summer of life sings its passing song,
And spring comes again… with courage to hope, and go on.

"If there are seasons I would see snow, but not around here..."&nbsp;

After the demise of his girlfriend Xiao Jing, A-Le packs up to pursue his musical ambitions in New York. There he meets the easy-going A-Qiang, a fellow dream hunter from Singapore, who gets him a job at a restaurant. On a particular take-out deliver

If There're Seasons... (2009)

Wardrobe Mistress

The winter of death numbs a lover’s pain,
The autumn of dreams lies awake in vain,
The summer of life sings its passing song,
And spring comes again… with courage to hope, and go on.

"If there are seasons I would see snow, but not around here..."&nbsp;

After the painful demise of his girlfriend Jing, Ah Le flies to New York to breathe life into his fading dream of writing music. There he meets and befriends Ah Qiang, a fellow dream hunter from Singapore, who helps him settle right in. It is a diffi

If There're Seasons... (2007)

Wardrobe Assistant

Company Associate - Producer Manager

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