Wild Rice

“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, the pigs write a set of commandments as a guide for animal life. However, cunning propaganda hides their true agenda, as the ideals of the revolution are gradually subverted.Animal Farm, George Orwell’s most ce

Animal Farm (2022)

Cast

Singapore Repertory Theatre

3 Actors. 37 plays. 97 minutes.&nbsp;It’s Shakespeare at its funniest! Experience Shakespeare like never before as SRT presents London’s longest-running comedy, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the best bits of the Bard’s plays. Join in the fun and merriment as three actors weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare’s 37 comedies, histories, and tragedies in one wild 97-minute ride that will leave you breathless with laughter.&nbsp;“Rollicki

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2021)

Pangdemonium

“Fight for the right to pee for free,&nbsp;
wherever you like,&nbsp;
whenever you like,&nbsp;
for as long as you like,&nbsp;
and with whomever you like!”

In a fictional “most expensive city in the world”, a “cross-border water crisis” has led to a government ban on private lavatories. The woeful water shortage sees the erection of pay-to-pee public toilets operated by an all-powerful corporation, Urine Good Company, owned by the megalomaniac Caldwell B. Cladwell. Breaking the laws against gratuitous 

Urinetown: The Musical (2019)

Winner of five Tony Awards, Peter and the Starcatcher is a hilarious, hair-raising, and heartwarming prequel to the Peter Pan legend, and a celebration of the innocence, imagination and resilience of the Child.

Singapore, 1885: we join Molly (a precocious young Starcatcher-in-training) and three orphan boys on a secret mission – a perilous voyage across seas infested by treacherous pirates, fearsome savages, and dubious mermaids, to a faraway island ruled by an evil king. All for the sake of the mystical

Peter and the Starcatcher (2018)

Cake Theatrical Productions

In 2015, we stripped our former studio bare to host the first iteration of Running with Strippers. Since then, Strippers has grown to embody the germination of ideas in arid spaces. Our meditations came into focus within the gaps. Dead spaces we saw as potential for fluid and divergent ways to meet minds and create. A space where art begets art. We saw a necessity to wrestle out of the ennui that threatens to cloud the creative space, that pushes risk, experimentation, defiance and stubbornness out of the p

The Little Company

Enchanted by the lilting birdsong of the plain-looking, brown Nightingale, the Emperor of China captures and keeps her in a gilded cage for his daily entertainment. But soon, along with her freedom, the beautiful voice of the Nightingale is lost and she is replaced by a singing mechanical bird.

Will she survive her days in captivity? Will she ever fly freely again? What happens when the mechanical bird fails? Join the Emperor and the Nightingale as they discover true friendship. With catchy rhymes and cl

The Nightingale (2018)

GenerAsia Ltd

From farm to fashion, KULIT ON THE GO reveals the heart and art in leather crafting. In a materialistic world preoccupied with consumerism, an artisan stays afloat in business by traveling to his customers to produce custom-made orders. Despite his attempts to redefine luxury goods through this vanishing trade, society had other plans for him.


Kulit on the Go (2018)

Playwright

Performer

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)

Devisor

Glowtape Productions

Meng Jiang Nü meets Fan Qi Liang, a scholar on the run from the Emperor's soldiers seeking forced conscripts to work on the Great Wall. They fall in love and get married. On the day of the wedding, soldiers barge in and take Fan away to labour at the Wall.&nbsp;

Meng Jiang Nü sets off to find her husband. She arrives at the Wall, only to learn that Fan has died and is buried underneath the Great Wall. Stricken with grief, Meng cries. The Great Wall collapses and Fan's remains are uncovered.


The Great Wall: One Woman's Journey (2017)

Ladies and Gentlemen, OPEN YOUR EYES!

You have arrived at LA CAGE, a fabulous nightclub in the heart of Tanjong Pagar. Here, George is your charming host and Albin, his long-time partner, headlines the world-famous cabaret as glamorous diva Zaza.

Life is beautiful, until George’s son, Jonathan, announces his plan to marry the daughter of Mr. C.K. Tan, an ultra-conservative politician hell-bent on shutting down the colourful local nightlife.

When Jonathan brings his future in-laws home to ‘meet the 

La Cage aux Folles (2017)

I Theatre

A bright, breezy musical for all the family, fast-paced and interactive, with colourful characters, puppets and tuneful, catchy songs. Based on the very famous Aesop's Fable, but with unexpected twists and turns to keep even the grownups engaged, involved and on their toes!

Once there lived a hard-working and ever-busy Ant who never seemed to have time for play or relaxation.&nbsp;
And then there was Grasshopper, with time on his hands and nothing to do all day.&nbsp;
Somehow they were friends. All day

The Ant & The Grasshopper (2017)

A group of 20-somethings face a future filled with fear and uncertainty, amidst social and political unrest, poverty, drug abuse and HIV/AIDS: Mark, an aspiring film-maker; Roger, a doomed musician; Collins, a “vagabond anarchist”; Angel, a transvestite street busker; Mimi, a troubled dancer; Maureen, a wild-child performance artist; hot-shot law student Joanne; and Benny, the one who “sold his soul” and became a “yuppie”. As they face their many challenges, friendships become fractured, hearts and bodies g

RENT (2016)

Joel Tan

Five people in a café. Something terrible is happening in Singapore. A play about the way we live and the things we hope for.


Cafe (2016)

Sight Lines Productions

A plane crashes on a deserted island.

The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. By day, it is a tropical paradise of&nbsp;sun and sea; but each night, their dreams are inhabited by a terrifying beast.&nbsp;Thrust into a teenage version of Hunger Games meets Survivor, the boys’ little&nbsp;island adventure quickly become a struggle for survival as superstition and immorality sees the community slide into a darkly sinister world.&nbsp;

It’s not too long before this well-behaved group develops a penc

Lord of the Flies (2016)

Some people NEVER seem to learn...

Boy has a really boring job. He has to watch the sheep. That's all. Just watch. The sheep don't think it is boring. They know it's an immensely important job, and their lives depend on it. When Boy is around, they are safe from the Wolf.

The Boy thinks of a bright idea. He will pretend that the Wolf is close by, and will call for help! Even with dire warnings, helpful suggestions and stories from the sheep, Boy continues to repeat this trick.

He just does not real

The Boy Who Cried Wolf (And Other Big Lies) (2016)

Shiver me timbers, ahoy there matey!

This year-end, Singapore Repertory Theatre's (SRT) The Little Company (TLC) is set to stage Treasure Island, a hilarious and exhilarating musical production suitable for the entire family.

A new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's popular novel of the same name, Treasure Island follows the adventure of Jim Hawkins, a lion-hearted 13 year-old girl who receives a treasure map from a kooky old seaman. Jim is tasked to help find the hidden treasure, but the road to 

Treasure Island (2015)

Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

It is such a privilege to work with Karen, Swee Lin, Stefanos, Amanda, Erwin, and Benedict on this staged reading of selected texts from Leow Puay Tin’s Family, and Natalie Hennedige’s Nothing and Temple.&nbsp;As director, I employed Leow Puay Tin’s playwright’s note included in the Family preface, as a model for selecting and directing the text:In effect, the director is asked to decide:(i) what and how much of the text to use,&nbsp;(ii) in what order to present it, and(iii) the means of presentationWhere 

Contemporary & New Wave (2015)

Written by Haresh Sharma,&nbsp;Off Centre&nbsp;(1993) focuses on the relationship between two young schizophrenics, both of whom face stigma from people in their lives while trying to reintegrate into society.

Featuring a strong ensemble including Neo Swee Lin and Siti Khalijah, Oliver Chong helms this production to tell a resonating and personal story of friendship and societal and familial pressures in a Singaporean context.

Off Centre&nbsp;is The Necessary Stage’s landmark play. First staged to cri

Off Centre (2015)

Think you know all about Aesop's Fables?

Aesop's collection of 665 fables dates back 2,600 years. For this fun-filled 50-minute musical extravaganza for children and families we have chosen around 8 to present to you. Don't expect the usual fare. This isn't JUST a musical for children! We will be turning the art of storytelling on its head to lead the audience through the lives, lunches and misadventures of a truly miss-matched band of scruffy, silly and sometimes stubborn creatures, as they slowly and p

Aesop's Fables (2015)

Take Off Productions

A group of 20-somethings turns up at an 80s mosaic playground the evening before it is due for demolition. Over the span for the night, what starts out as an earnest protest event turns into an unravelling of relationships and betrayals, enacting on a quieter level questions of the respective costs of progress and nostalgia. By turns funny, poignant and melancholy,&nbsp;Mosaic&nbsp;is a love-song to generation Y's hang-ups and dramas, exploring the struggles people go through to hold on to things that have 

Mosaic (2015)

The Theatre Practice

After the demise of his girlfriend 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 takeout delivery, an aspiring actress named Rose enters A-Le's life. Soon a bittersweet friendship of battered dreams and bruised hearts is born amongst them. But with each passing day, Rose begins to feel a little more for A-Le. Unknown to them however, the future is about to chang

If There're Seasons... (2014)

This is one of those stories you really think you know - until you examine it a little closer. In the original Fable by Aesop, the ants work all day, never taking time to appreciate the world around them. Whilst the Grasshopper does not see the value in working...

In Singapore we like to think that the Ants are the perfect example of what we should be like. But is the Grasshopper completely wrong in his point of view? And are the ants really following the best path in life? There could be something valua

The Ant and the Grasshopper (2014)

Wong Souk Yee

Chng Suan Tze

In a country not too different from Singapore, an escaped political prisoner is apprehended by the country next door, and his lawyer is arrested. What happens next?

Suitable for ages 18 and above.


Square Moon (2013)

Incurring the wrath of a wicked witch who cast a spell on him, Prince Phillip was turned into a frog. Ashamed of his outward appearance, the frog prince hid in a swamp, until one day, he was found by the young Prince Rosalie, The frog prince tells her the spell can only be broken by one whose love for him is true. But who wants to kiss a frog?

The Tale of the Frog Prince teaches children not to judge a book by its cover, treasure their friends and also serves as a light-hearted reminder that we should tr

The Tale of the Frog Prince (2013)

Othello opens on a street in Venice, where lago, an ensign in the Venetian army, is arguing with Roderigo, who paid lago to help him win the beautiful Desdemona's hand in marriage. Rumour has it that Desdemona has secretly married Othello, lago's general, instead. Roderigo is furios. lago confides in him that he, too, hates Othello, because the general promoted Michael Cassio to the position of lieutenant instead of lago himself. Together, the two men decide to reveal the marriage between Othello and Desdem

Othello (2013)

The Little Red Hen is a well-known and beautiful story about friendship, helpfulness and perseverance.

Have you ever worked hard on a project and found that no one would help you along the way&nbsp;— but when the project is a success, suddenly everyone wants to claim the credit, and enjoy the results?

After our resounding sell-out hit in 2007 and 2008, we are very excited to bring you an all-new, refreshed and re-worked production, with all the fun of the original, but now with more interactive style,

The Little Red Hen (2013)

T:>Works (TheatreWorks)

It is sometime in the near future of Singapore. The National Broadway Company (NBC) has been established, and the search for the Artistic Director is on. Amongst those vying for the position is the ‘who’s who’ of Singapore’s theatre industry. From hairdresser to entertainment icon to deputy public prosecutor to politician, the story of the pioneering musical theatre in Singapore unfolds as they sing their hearts to the top.

Based on specially conducted interviews with Dick Lee, Pamela Oei, Michael Chiang

National Broadway Company (2012)

After sweeping the Life! Theatre Awards 2006 with her hit play,&nbsp;Everything but the Brain,&nbsp;award-winning playwright Jean Tay takes on a subject close to every true-blue Singaporean's heart – land.

On this tiny red dot, where sand is as precious as gold, homes exchange hands like commodities. Historical icons are constantly being bulldozed in the name of progress. Week after week, we see our forgotten icons of yesteryear –&nbsp;Rochor Centre,&nbsp;Bukit Brown Cemetery&nbsp;and the&nbsp;KTM Railwa

Boom (2012)

Three diverse and comical characters are washed up on a mystery island. Why? We don't know. How? We don't know. What we do know is - that they REALLY don't understand each other! They must overcome their fears and phobias, and work together to share their new home.

First, they need to learn how to communicate with each other in order to work together. Using physical theatre, comedy, music and mayhem to raise some important questions and examine preconceptions about stereotypes, this is an international c

Our Island (2012)

Actor

"MY ONLY LOVE SPRUNG FROM MY ONLY HATE!" - Juliet, Act 1 Scene 5

Fall in love again with ROMEO &amp; JULIET, the world's greatest love story, as it is brought to life in a bold, exuberant and sensual production by W!LD RICE.&nbsp;

In a city ripped apart by the hatred between their feuding families, two young people fall desperately in love. Defying their parents’ wishes and throwing all caution to the wind, they marry in secret, risking everything to be together

Ivan Heng, renowned for his innovati

Romeo & Juliet (2012)

SPRING AWAKENING is the explosive, electrifying and exhilarating musical that breaks all the rules of musical theatre. Full of heart, humanity and humour, it tells the tale of a group of teenagers embarking on a turbulent journey of self-discovery, each one experiencing a dramatic psychological/emotional/spiritual/sexual awakening: Meet The Misfit, The Idealist, The Innocent, The Rebel, The Mama’s Boy, The Runaway, The Abused… and for these youths growing up in 1892, the only means of expressing their emoti

Spring Awakening (2012)

Where is the wood, who is the wolf, what is Grandma and why does the girl wear a red hood?

Three girls all in red make their way through a timeless forest.

Destination — Grandmothers house. They confront wolves, relatives, one another and themselves. Who will live and who will die? The Girl in the Red Hood — a reflection of what society sees in little girls. But is she the innocent helpless victim or the teasing temptress? Travel with us to discover as we craftily interweave several versions of this t

The Girl in the Red Hood (2010)

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Dark Room&nbsp;follows the lives of men housed together in a five-by-five-metre cell, 23 hours a day, every day, until their release. This original work, based on true accounts, explores the codes and regulations of society “on the inside”. It charts the prison experience from pre-trial to imprisonment, and the reintegration into society as “returning citizens”.

If “prison is the punishment that keeps on taking”,&nbsp;Dark Room&nbsp;gives voice to the incarcerated by staging their stories and making thei

Erwin Shah Ismail

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