HATCH

Habsah has experienced both death and divorce in just a span of a few months.&nbsp;With no husband and no mother for emotional support, she becomes lonely and paranoid. Adi, her son is finding it increasingly difficult to communicate with his mother whilst at the same time trying to keep the family together.

Lanang is a story about relationships – a teenage boy and his divorced mother, a lonely daughter’s relationship with her mother and the matriarch who holds them together.&nbsp; All three of them need

Lanang (2018)

Director

Teater Ekamatra

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)

Cast

Devisor

The Malay Peninsular is flooded with stories of tragic women. From Puteri Gunung Ledang to Mahsuri. From those who were oppressed by men, to those who were betrayed by another woman. From the oft-heard, to the obscure. From facts to rumours. And on this night, they will tell their stories the way they want it to be told. So you can decide if they are tragic.

Or not.


Malam Puteri-Puteri Malang (2017)

Siti, a recent convert to Islam, is suddenly tasked with overseeing the funeral arrangements of her close friend and companion. Ahmad, a funeral director, is summoned to perform the last rites. As he learns more about Siti, he begins to question the true nature of the relationship between Siti and her friend. While funeral preparations are being made, a charming stranger – Zaki – arrives unexpectedly. He strikes up a conversation with Siti that gradually reveals his motives and her heartbreak.

Hawa is a 

Hawa (2017)

The Necessary Stage

What makes a marriage? The fully furnished HDB flat, the mutual secret keeping, the mother-in-law? Azam and Xiaoyan have to confront their differences when Azam's mother and sister make a surprise visit at home. Clashes of culture, religion and gender lurk within the still waters of everyday life and threaten to undo familial ties.&nbsp;

Heartbreaking and humorous in turns,&nbsp;Drip&nbsp;is an unflinching look at the sacrifices - big and small - that we make to be at peace with one another and with ours

Drip (2017)

Performer

Our Company

When her father dies, a young woman is left with his favourite Fiat Marvellete, a car ancient by Singapore standards, but by no means in pristine condition. She recalls the sometimes joyful, sometimes painful memories of sitting in the car, and is torn over keeping, selling or destroying a major link with her father.


The Car (2017)

Lara is a storyteller. A storyteller that can make you laugh. And cry. Today, just like everyday, Lara has a story to tell. But this one is different…

In a village, there lived a mid-wife, Mak Bidan, and her husband, the village circumcision specialist, Tok Mudim. They live happily. Together. With each other. But they are incomplete. They yearn for a child. A child to call their own. Aided in their quest by the mystical Bomoh, the village shaman, will the childless couple finally find that missing ‘piece

Cari Makan (2016)

Siti, a recent convert to Islam, is suddenly tasked with overseeing the funeral arrangements of her close friend and companion. Ahmad, a funeral director, is summoned to perform the last rites. As he learns more about Siti, he begins to question the true nature of the relationship between Siti and her friend. While funeral preparations are being made, a charming stranger - Zaki - arrives unexpectedly. He strikes up a conversation with Siti that gradually reveals his motives and her heartbreak.

Hawa is a 

Hawa (2016)

Irfan Kasban

Highway needs to be built but in its path, a 150 old tree stands. The road can take an alternative route but on that path there is a 50 year old tree planted by the former Prime minister. The Society of Flora and Roots (SoFaR), a volunteer-based organisation, debate before signing a petition on which tree should be up-rooted. When all else fails, they conduct a public forum to decide which is more important, the preservation of our natural past, or the re-imagined history that someone planted.

Trees, A C

Trees, A Crowd (2016)

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)

Playwright

I Theatre

Once upon a time there was a Little Old Woman and a Little Old Man, who decided to make a gingerbread man to sweeten their day. But the Little Old Man was REALLY not good at following instructions. What a recipe for disaster...

With strong moral values, and some interesting thinking points for young and old alike, this is a completely reinvented version of of our sold-out production. Look out for a re-worked and improved script, re-designed costumes, set, props and puppets.

The Gingerbread Man is a sw

The Gingerbread Man (2015)

Siti, a recent convert to Islam is suddenly tasked with overseeing the funeral arrangements of her close friend and companion. However, what was supposed to be a simple task of overseeing her companion’s final journey sets Siti off on a journey of self-discovery when Siti is forced to confront the dominant paradigms that exist in society.


Hawa (2015)

Welcome to “Peaceful Hospital” – a strange hospital with the best doctors and nurses in town.Actually they are vampires who are devoted to healing humans. Together with Gobriel, a low-ranking angel who moonlights as a pharmaceutical sales rep, they are committed to assist humans in finding happiness. The plot thickens as two patients are secretly brought to the hospital. This marks the beginning of a plan to realise the vampires’ long awaited dream.Through its comical fantastic storyline, Ring-a Ring-o’ Ros

Ring-a-Ring-o'Rosie (2014)

We make homes out of people.
4 strangers became friends.
It’s a friendship, a brotherhood.
It’s trust, a pure and honest bond.
They sit, talk and they dance.
They recite and create.
They dream of love.
They dream of fun.
They dream of beauty with
orange suffused sunshine.


Di Manakah Kau Sorokkan Yusof Ishak? (2014)

A rather intelligent cat.
A rather foolish youngest son.
A pair of magical boots.
An Ogre, a King and a Princess.
All the ingredients you need for a fun-filled fairytale musical for the whole family!

A fast-paced musical full of trickery, quick thinking and courage in the face of Foolish Fashionistas, Random Royalty and Evil Ogres.
Who will win then hand of the Princess? Who will get eaten? Who will get rescued?
And most importantly, who will win the Best Dressed Cat competition?

Adapted from th

Puss in Boots (2014)

Cake Theatrical Productions

In 2008, Cake created&nbsp;Temple,&nbsp;commissioned by and presented at the Singapore Arts Festival and the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia.&nbsp;Temple&nbsp;saw the evolution and degeneration of a society of seven staking their claim of territory and moral authority in an abandoned sports hall.&nbsp;Temple&nbsp;examined humanity as an interconnected body predisposed to mega levels of destructiveness.&nbsp;

In 2013, to culminate a twelve-month immersion programme with Cake, the participants of In a Decade

Temple Reconstructed (2013)

Set Designer

Sight Lines Productions

Everything but the Brain tells the story of Elaine, a Physics teacher who hatches a plan to turn back time and save her stroke-afflicted father from further deterioration. Along the way, she is egged on by a chorus of three bears, occasionally distracted by a dashing young surgeon and haunted by a particularly memorable train ride to Malacca…

Don’t miss this poignant, comic play, which premiered in 2005 to critical acclaim. After two sold-out runs, it went on to win “Best Original Script” and “Best Actor

Everything But The Brain (2013)

People.

Sticking it out in a hyper-real place. Doing things and saying things and thinking things out loud. They keep this up all day.

One Day in this Place&nbsp;is set against a backdrop of an imagined place at once familiar, at once kooky. This new Cake work features the emerging arts practitioners of&nbsp;In A Decade.


One Day in this Place (2013)

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)

Pause. Truth. Pause. Truth. Silence. Fear. Do we fear the truth? Three actors are in a room, cloistered away from the world. A world that is judging them and telling them what is right and wrong. Can they survive the judgement? Can they be real?


Lampu Merah (2012)

Artist

Ruang is a double-bill

Projek Peringatan Negara
(The National Memory Project)
By Johnny Jon-Jon

The National Memory Project is a national knowledge initiative to capture and preserve the essence of a country. when an officer of&nbsp;the memory corps is tasked with retrieving a memory from a convict awaiting his execution, she learns that memory without its roots is merely imagination.

Lampu Merah
(Red Light)
By Faizal Abdullah

Pause. Truth. Pause. Truth. Silence. Fear. Do we fear the truth? 

Ruang (2012)

This spectacular musical received very positive reviews and feedback for its exciting script, beautifully made costumes and enchanting set when it played in 2010. Back by popular demand, The Arabian Nights is again set to capture and enthral its audience, however young; or old they may be!

The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become immortalised in print. From the epic adventures of 'Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp' and 'Sinb

The Arabian Nights (2012)

Fight For Your Dream!

Kampung life, drama and song meet in this classic and timeless story of a girl and her fight for justice, against the odds.

In a small village in the heart of Southeast Asia, Dawan competes with her brother Kwai for the coveted single scholarship for the City High School. Kwai just wants to further his own ambitions, but Dawan has bigger dreams in mind. When Dawan wins, she becomes the object of her father's anger and frustration, and her brother's bitter enemy.

Confronted wit

Sing to the Dawn (2012)

Ensemble

T:>Works (TheatreWorks)

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)

STAGES

From the creators of Chestnuts,&nbsp;H is for Hantu&nbsp;is a musical comedy for the whole family, with an exhilarating mixture of spooks, madcap comedy, ingenious puppets and infectious music, woven together to entertain young and old alike!

Singapore’s last existing kampung is about to be wiped out to make way for development, but not all the residents are willing to give up without a fight! Catch feisty Sazali and his supernatural sidekicks – the sultry diva Pontianak and the light-headed but very gut

H is for Hantu (2011)

Wild Rice

Love, hate, and twisted games in Sam and Jo’s trendy New York apartment.

3 fashionable but desperate couples claw their way through a night of alcohol and secrets. Will their friendships survive? Will their marriages crumble? Will the devastating truth that they are denying eventually consume them all?

Into this emotional minefield step the elegantly enigmatic Elizabeth and her ominous companion, Oscar, claiming to be Jo’s relatives. They are warmly embraced by everyone but Sam. What does Sam know? Wh

Unlike Some People (2010)

"All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others."

Something is going on at Manor Farm. The animals have overthrown Farmer Jones and, with the pigs as their leaders, have created a new state for themselves called Animal Farm.

Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities in the system, a set of commandments is written as a guide for animal life. However, cunning propaganda hides the true agenda of the pigs as the ideals of the revolution are gradually subverted.

ANIMAL FARM, George

Animal Farm (2010)

Stage Assistant

“Blood is thicker than tears.”

Previously staged by TheatreWorks and directed by Ong Keng Sen as The Yang Family in 1996, FAMILY traces events in the 90-something year life of Tan Neo, offering a vivid and moving picture of a woman who suffers much at the mercy of fate but who finds remarkable strength in herself and her children. It is a tale of how families survive, and how generations change. It echoes the rapidly transforming cultural landscape of our island, vividly evoking how we have journeyed fro

Family (2010)

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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

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