Pangdemonium

She’s a loving wife. A devoted mother. And a woman slowly losing her grip on reality.

She is suspicious of her husband: what is he up to? Why is he so eager to go on his business trip?

She misses her son: why did he move out of their home? What is he hiding from her?

She feels uneasy about her son’s girlfriend: is she good for her son? Is she who she says she is?

Her doubts about her husband begin to border on paranoia. Her “empty nest” pining for her son starts to seem like lovesickness. Her ne

The Mother (2021)

Cast

Singapore Repertory Theatre

Which is more important?
Poetic Truths or Pure Facts?

Jim Fingal is a fresh-out-of-Harvard fact checker for a prominent but sinking New York magazine. John D’Agata is a talented writer with a transcendent essay about the suicide of a teenage boy –&nbsp;an essay that could save the magazine from collapse. When Jim is assigned to fact check D’Agata’s essay, the two come head to head in a comedic yet gripping battle over facts versus truth.


The Lifespan of a Fact (2020)

Wild Rice

71-year-old Teck, a prickly retiree, has just suffered a stroke that leaves him wheelchair-bound. When he insists on moving back home, Jenny, his&nbsp;no-nonsense daughter, hires a young Indonesian domestic worker, Yanti, to look after him.

At first, Yanti dutifully follows the strict caregiving regime drawn up by Jenny. But Teck refuses to give up a few of his favourite vices. When Jenny is not around, Yanti gives in to Teck's demands for fatty, braised pork belly and the occasional cigarette. And yet, 

Supervision (2019)

Debora and Michael’s dinner guests are late. About one year late. That’s because it’s taken all this time for the couple to even dare to come face to face with Tamara and Bill, and their teenage son Curtis – the bully they believe is responsible for the suicide of their own son Joel.

For Debora and Michael, tonight is a nerve-racking step towards coming to terms with their loss; for Tamara and Bill, it’s a meeting they’ve been dreading but never expected to ever happen; and for Curtis, it’s going to be t

Late Company (2019)

T:>Works (TheatreWorks)

The play is a patchwork of twenty short scenes revolving around an unuttered question – what are human relationships made of?&nbsp;

A woman wants divorce because there was never any love between her and her husband. On her wedding day, a bride discovers her fiance had an affair with each of her four sisters. A mother is stunned when she learns her husband is happy with their son joining the army and risking his life at war. Two best friends get into a savage fight because one of them recalls their first 

The Reunification Of The Two Koreas (2018)

Performer

67-year-old Teck, a prickly retiree, has just suffered a stroke that leaves one side of his body paralysed. When he insists on moving back home, Jenny, his brusque, no-nonsense daughter, decides to hire a caregiver. Enter Yanti, a young Indonesian domestic worker who has never been to Singapore.

At first, Yanti dutifully follows the detailed regime that Jenny has drawn up. But Teck has his own stubborn opinions on how he should be cared for. Sometimes, Yanti defies Jenny's instructions and gives in to Te

Supervision (2018)

André has lost his beloved watch again. His daughter and her husband are behaving very oddly. There is an unseen presence in his home playing cruel tricks on him. And as he fights his demons and drowns in his murky memories, he is beginning to question his own sanity and identity…

The Father&nbsp;is a poignant and devastating exploration of a 70-year-old man’s deteriorating mind as he sinks under the frightening weight of dementia, and loses his grip on the sanctuary of his home and security of his loved

The Father (2018)

The Finger Players

“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)

If&nbsp;The Book of Mormon&nbsp;and&nbsp;Avenue Q&nbsp;had a baby, this would be it!

Troubled teen, Jason, is coping with his father’s recent death and is forced to join his mother, Margery, in her Sunday School puppet group. When this God-fearing boy discovers that his sock puppet has a life of its own, all hell breaks loose. Literally.

In this provocative dark comedy, Jason’s satanic sock puppet named Tyrone shows the children, the minister and the school bully who’s really in charge. Wickedly scand

Hand to God (2017)

Loo Zihan

In 1999, The Necessary Stage presented Completely With/Out Character, a docu-theatre monologue devised by Paddy Chew, in collaboration with playwright Haresh Sharma and director Alvin Tan. The monologue was a candid account of Paddy’s experiences as the first individual to come out as a person living with HIV in Singapore.&nbsp;With/Out is an interpretation of Paddy’s monologue, conceptualised by artist Loo Zihan. It was first presented in 2015 to rave reviews as part of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Th

With/Out (2017)

Collaborator

50 years ago, Singapore and Malaysia divorced after a brief marriage of two years. But, doomed lovers that we are, we just can’t stay away from each other, no matter how often we squabble over water, airspace and food. We toil in each other’s cities, relax on each other’s islands and get fined on each other’s roads. We laugh at each other’s laws but envy each other’s liberties; separated by history, we are united by our dreams for a better home.

Directed by Singapore’s Ivan Heng and Malaysia’s Jo Kukatha

Another Country (2015)

Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

"...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)

Voiceover

One sunny morning, 10-year-old Rhona goes missing.

Her mother Nancy (Karen Tan), retreats into a state of frozen hope for the next twenty years. Does “closure” mean forgiveness? Or revenge?

Agnetha (Janice Koh) is a pioneering psychiatrist with a controversial theory on serial killers. Does she really believe what she preaches, even as she fights her own demons?

And then there’s Ralph (Adrian Pang), a loner with a fractured history and a deadly obsession… Is he a monster? Or a misunderstood man-chi

Frozen (2014)

Artists, past and present theatre reviewers and different personalities from the arts scene “convene” in discussions that retrace the seminal events in Singapore theatre history. Rant and Rave dramatises some of the most memorable debates pertaining to the development of Singapore theatre from as far back as the 80s, re-enacting some of the most fiery dialogues about the arts in the last 30 years. Archival materials culled from various newspaper publications are used to create these discussions on art and s

Rant & Rave (2014)

A man and a woman meet, seemingly for the first time. Can one single encounter alter the course of their lives?

The Optic Trilogy is composed of three stories, each one a duet between strangers. A tourist has a dalliance with a rent boy she has summoned from the Yellow Pages. A nervous photographer meets a beautiful blind model. A woman audaciously proposes marriage to a man she has just met on the Internet.

Possibly the playwright’s most lyrical work, The Optic Trilogy is a meditation on memory and p

The Optic Trilogy (2013)

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)

Rant & Rave (2012)

HOLLYWOOD.

A megalomaniac movie mogul [Adrian Pang] with a murky past, a bite that’s even worse than his bark, and whose motto is “live and let die”.

A struggling film producer [Janice Koh] with clear ambitions and a shady agenda: damsel in distress? Or manipulative, man-eating femme fatale?

A fish-out-of-water wannabe screenwriter [George Young], idealistic and hungry enough to do anything to make his way up the corporate food chain.

With the hottest screenplay in town up for grabs, the line be

Swimming With Sharks (2012)

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)

The Theatre Practice

A terminally ill 70-year-old grandfather is living out his twilight years when, one day he declares his love for his domestic helper, A-Ai. What's more, she's pregnant! His determination to marry her and father the unborn child leaves his children furious and puzzled. If he was your dad, how would you react? Would you be suspicious? Would you be angry? Or would it leave you at a loss?

Can you accept such an unusual relationship?

The old man's actions create an uproar in his household and ignite an exp

I Love A-Ai (2011)

Poop!&nbsp;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 instill in her GRANDDAUGHTER that death is merely a joke, that there’s nothing to cry about as she takes her on a mind trip towards the underworld and purgatory — set against an all-too-famili

Poop! (2010)

spell#7

Combining traditional storytelling with theatrical experiment,&nbsp;Epic Poem of Malaya&nbsp;presents a kaleidoscopic vision of a society in flux. In a constantly shifting stage environment, a multi-generational cast unfolds an expansive, big-hearted story of Singapore seen from the sea.

A boy leaves Singapore for life on the South China Sea. He loves it, but history has other ideas. In a 1956 painting by the artist Chua Mia Tee, a passionate young man is declaiming a vision of the future; and there isn’

Epic Poem of Malaya (2010)

Toy Factory Productions Limited

The story is set&nbsp;in the Qing dynasty

Five daughters came forth to celebrate their father’s 60th birthday armed with twin missions

To prepare a lavish banquet featuring the famous hairy crab delicacy and to set up an all-women poetry club

Clearly literacy inspired them to think far beyond the confines of their traditional female sphere.&nbsp;

Words are seasoned with wit and sautéed with hidden emotions as they prepare their menu of love.&nbsp;

Beautifully revealed in each dialogue are ric

The Crab Flower Club (2009)

A GRANDMOTHER bargains with divine powers to release her SON’S soul from hell after he had committed suicide. She brings him home, and instills in her GRANDDAUGHTER that her dead father is amongst them; he is reincarnated as the table and the fan that they love so much. She takes her on a mind trip towards the underworld and purgatory - set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of fast food restaurants, underground trains, verdant pastures, and SBS buses.

These personal fantasies of the afterlife ar

Poop! (2009)

Actor

Tan Kheng Hua

Janice Koh

Do Not Disturb - Late Checkout, Please&nbsp;features the stories behind four couples in a budget hotel room.&nbsp;


Do Not Disturb - Late Checkout, Please (2008)

Producer

IF ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE, WHAT SCENE OF YOUR LIFE WOULD YOU OFFER AS A LAST ENCORE?

Trapped in a limbo between existences, seven deceased Singaporeans are reading their own obituaries. A postman, a teacher, a grassroots leader, a businesswoman, an actress, a taxi-driver and his wife - seven elderly strangers with little in common in&nbsp;Life,&nbsp;now find themselves together as they face the greatest adventure of their lives -&nbsp;Death.&nbsp;Before this wait is over, they must each revisit, relieve

First Light (2008)

It is the year 2058. Singapore is reeling from an unprecedented attack: buildings have been flattened, tens of thousands of people have been killed. In fact, nearly everything in this once pristine and technologically advanced city-state has been destroyed.

A day after the disaster, Major General Abdul Aziz has taken over the reins of power in a military coup. A colony of intrepid survivors, led by activist Jessie Soon and pastor Simon Sitoh, have pooled their resources to rebuild Singapore.

Sifting t

Apocalypse: LIVE! (2008)

Ho Tzu Nyen

Not one, but three productions about Shakespeare's King Lear, questioning the production of Lear itself. Singaporean visual artist and film-maker Ho Tzu Nyen turns theatre maker in this intriguing trilogy which has as its starting point&nbsp;three well-known critical texts on&nbsp;Lear by Marvin Rosenberg, Jonathan Goldberg and Wilson Knight. Giving these&nbsp;tracts flesh and blood incarnations through&nbsp;dramatizations of would-be scenarios of an audition, a rehearsal and a&nbsp;post-show discussion, th

The King Lear Project: A Trilogy (2008)

In a museum, time is confused. What looks old may be a reproduction, what looks new is actually a stained glass window from 1887.&nbsp;120&nbsp;attempts to recast the National Museum of Singapore as a host of luminescent voices.

The performance ushers the audience through the galleries, halls and exhibits playfully: inviting the audience to see this space in a different light, through alternate frames, against a wallpaper of people. The performance may take the shape of pockets of ‘happenings’, walks and

120 (2007)

ACTION Theatre

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Hitting (On) Women (2007)

TITOUDAO: THE STORY

Based on the real-life story Mdm Oon Ah Chiam, the play begins in the backstage area of a makeshift Chinese street opera (wayang) stage. It is an organized clutter of elaborate headgear and opera costumes, old-fashioned make-up chests, swords, props and various backdrops. On the stage,&nbsp;wayang&nbsp;performer Ah Chiam begins the story of her struggle to become a renowned street opera star.

Tracing her journey from her poor childhood days in the 1940s to the present day, the play

Titoudao (2007)

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Programme Writer

National Service is an integral part of every Singaporean male's journey towards manhood. In&nbsp;Army Daze,&nbsp;we salute Singaporean boys as they don their uniforms and begin their march to maturity. We also celebrate how these sons of diverse backgrounds and circumstances come under one camp and eventually become brothers; blurring the boundaries of race, age and social status.&nbsp;

Michael Chiang's play is about the misadventures of five young men as they go through their Basic Military Training. T

Army Daze (2006)

Luna-id

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Quills (2005)

Sex. Argument. Argument. Make up. Sex. Argument. Argument. A fast paced and quirky contemporary love play about eight people who fall in and out of love, sex and relationship. So begins&nbsp;Lovepuke,&nbsp;a comedy that speaks of sex, love &amp; other bodily functions...


Lovepuke (2005)

Escape Theatre Limited

Sometimes the things you want most are just out of reach.

The action takes place in Kyra's studio apartment in North London.
The time is the present.


Skylight (2005)

INVITATION TO TREAT&nbsp;is the complete trilogy of plays by lawyer and acclaimed playwright Eleanor Wong. First staged in the 1990s, Mergers &amp; Accusations and Wills &amp; Secessions were two plays that made a huge impact on the Singapore theatre scene for their bold ideas, sparkling wit and incisively honest portrayal of the experience of a gay person’s double life in conservative Singapore.

A decade on and have things changed? We may have been busily "Remaking" ourselves, but really, does every Sin

Jointly & Severably (2003)

Proof started with two ideas. One was about a pair of estranged sisters: what if, after their father's death, they discovered something valuable among his possessions? The other - more of a visual image than anything else - was about a worried young woman: I pictured her sitting up, alone, late at night, afraid that she might be inheriting her father's mental illness.

I didn't know if these ideas belonged in the same play or not, but while looking for a way to put them together I happened to be reading G

Proof (2002)

Chay Yew's&nbsp;The Morning People&nbsp;is a bold adaptation of Anton Chekhov's finest masterpiece&nbsp;The Cherry Orchard.

The year is 1934, a time of great social, political, civil and economic change in China's history. The marching footsteps of the communist army is approaching in the distance as China moves towards a revolutionary period.&nbsp;

The cherry orchard is located this time in the mountainous province of Shaanxi, in northern China.&nbsp;

The plot hinges on the tragic loss of a family

The Morning People (2002)

The ambassador has been at large too long. Home once more, his thoughts turn to the places he's lived and the people he's loved. In his twilit memory, everything overlaps. The nun and the cowboy shoot the breeze, the ice queen gets fresh with the sleazebag, the pulp novelist writes stories of lost love fit to burst your heart. It's all one to the old man in the funny shirt, as he conjures fantasies out of forgetting, and festivities out of trauma: a remix, with a mashed up soundtrack to match, and digital i

7x7 (2002)

A new commission written by veteran playwright Tan Tarn How,&nbsp;Machine&nbsp;had its first reading of its first act in March 2001. Since then, it has been developed into a full-length drama about love and relationships in modern times – an uncharacteristic subject from Tarn How, who is well-known for his political satires.&nbsp;

A strange tale of two men, Rex and Heng, who turn up at the home of listless friends Lina and Kim one day. The men claim to be appliance repairmen, though they don’t always beh

Machine (2002)

Love is Beautiful!

Compassion is Beautiful!

Respect is Beautiful!

2 boys French Kissing, BEAUTIFUL!!!

Live out your fantasy in this urban fairy tale.


Beautiful Thing (2002)

The year is 1665. The weekly death tolls are shouted in the London streets and most of the well - and well-to-do - have fled the pestilence that will kill one in five. Nearing the end of their enforced quarantine are the wealthy gentleman William Snelgrave and his subdued wife Darcy. The intrusion of two unwanted visitors however, puts the quarantine process back to day one.&nbsp;

One interloper the twelve-year-old, Morse frames the story with her narrative. Morse is spunky and smart beyond her years, bu

One Flea Spare (2002)

Seeking enlightenment, Anna ups and leaves for India. Amongst the backpackers, pilgrims and the more innocent Indians, she gets to know a strange but simpler and more appealing way of life. Enlightened, she goes home. However, she is soon caught in an identity quandary as her new beliefs constantly collide with her old.&nbsp;

an entrancing monologue...
an evening of enlightenment,
enchantment and entertainment.


The Eastern Line On My Palm (2001)

High altitude, high drama. For the star with the beautiful feet, love is in the air. Come fly with&nbsp;Meena &amp; Me.


Meena and Me (1999)

apocalyso! is about finding yourself at the end of the millenium without a partner for the ball. It is about playing dirty to get one and coming clean as the clock strikes midnight. Inspired by the sounds and footsteps of Latin America and Cowboy Mouth by Sam Shepard, spell#7 throws in a few ingredients of their own: spying, romance, cultural differences, confessions and pre-millenial tension.


apocalypso! (1997)

Marketing

TheatreWorks, Singapore's foremost English language theatre company makes&nbsp;its debut in this year’s Festival with&nbsp;Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral, an&nbsp;epic saga of dreams, desire...&nbsp;and drugs.

Playwright Kuo Pao Kun and director Ong Keng Sen, two illuminaries of the&nbsp;Singapore theatre scene come together for the third time to collaborate in this original play.&nbsp;Their last collaboration was the critically acclaimed TheatreWorks production of&nbsp;Lao Jiu in 1993.

Descendants

Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral (1995)

For the Festival,&nbsp;Theatreworks will present Scorpion Orchid, a&nbsp;play based on well-known author Lloyd&nbsp;Fernando's book of the same title.&nbsp;Set in Singapore in the early 1950's, the play explores the&nbsp;lives and relationships of five characters and their&nbsp;struggle together during the country’s period of&nbsp;political and racial crisis and turmoil. The play, a&nbsp;new work, won second prize in the NST-Esso&nbsp;Playwriting&nbsp;Competition this year, the first such&nbsp;competition t

Scorpion Orchid (1994)

This is a play about "actors and you darling people out there".&nbsp;In 1857, the European community banned the staging of street opera in Penang on the ground that it caused social chaos. As a result, the Chinese community held a strike to protest against their entertainment being taken away. The play is based on this actual historical event.&nbsp;

Children of the Pear Garden (1992)

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“I feel nothing, nothing. I feel nothing.” – C

Two men, two women…. four voices that intertwine to create a deeply moving exposition about the extremes of love, hope, longing, desire, disappointment, despair and loneliness.

This experiment by 3rd&nbsp;Culture Theatre is an attempt to create the kind of experiential and visceral theatre that Sarah Kane sought to make.

Audience members are intimately connected to performers. Sound becomes textural through shifts in spatial perspectives. Fleeting hint

Janice Koh

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