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)

Cast

Singapore Repertory Theatre

The LKY Musical&nbsp;tells the dramatic story of Singapore’s first Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. It follows his life from his pre-war days as an idealist student through his transformation into a powerful political leader fighting for Singapore’s independence. Beginning with the challenge of surviving the Japanese Occupation through his years as a Cambridge student, his return to Singapore as a young lawyer, the formation of the PAP, and the political struggle with the communists. &nbsp;It ends with the

The LKY Musical (2015)

I Theatre

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People (2014)

Director

Grimm's Fairy Tales have fed the imaginations of generations of people, young and old for 200 years. Now, celebrate these stories with us, through this full-scale Broadway-standard Musical.

Why watch one story, when you can enjoy a whole collection? Each has been carefully selected, and crafted to maintain the original flavour, but now made accessible for a whole new generation!

What stories will we tell? Look out for Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, The Valiant Little Tailor and Little Red Riding Hood. W

Grimm's Fairy Tales (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)

Performer

Using celebrated children's writer Mike Kenny's text, this famous story is magically retold through energetic physical theatre, object puppetry, light and shadow. Far below the crashing waves of the ocean's surface and into its deepest depths we meet a young mermaid. Enthralled by the unknown world above the sea, the Little Mermaid saves a mysterious human, after a vicious storm throws him from his ship. As she falls in love with him, she has a life-changing decision to make. A deal with the evil sea witch 

The Little Mermaid (2012)

Actor

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)

A musical with... sole.

There was once a shoemaker, who, by no fault of his own, had become so poor that he had nothing left but leather for one pair of shoes.

Have you ever wondered why?

See that one with the pointy black hat, looking at brooms? Watch out for her... Or Madam Imelda; with her stepdaughter trailing behind, like a servant. NEVER satisfied with the shoes he makes - they always demand that he remakes and repairs them at no cost...

This is where the story begins...

The shoemaker -

The Elves and the Shoemaker (2011)

The Baobab Tree is a very special kind of tree. Some even say, magical.

Sit under the Baobab, and the most beautiful, colourful and imaginative stories will jump into your head, waiting to be told.

People come every day; to listen and be entertained; to learn of sly crocodiles and clever monkey, naughty children and wicked parents. Stories of every kind!

This is why the Baobab tree has become known as the story tree.

I have only just arrived and my head is already bursting with stories. So, come

Under the Baobab Tree (2011)

Wild Rice

Just when you thought you knew what NS was all about…

Two decades after&nbsp;Army Daze, it’s time to rediscover National Service – in all its familiarity and strangeness! Two comedies and a musical all about NS – why we hate it, love it, fear it and ultimately, can’t live without it!

Full Tank&nbsp;by Laremy Lee – Sergeant Leroy and his motley tank crew hijack a tank and go AWOL, embarking on a joyride through the night streets of Singapore! Meanwhile, the authorities (ALL of them) are in a panic over

Own Time Own Target (2008)

Meet Argan – a wealthy and mostly healthy man who is convinced that he’s plagued by all sorts of obscure and embarrassing diseases. He plans to marry his daughter Angelique to a doctor’s son, guaranteeing himself a lifetime of free medical care!

Alas, Angelique loves the hunky Cleante, and it’s up to the feisty maid Toinette to stop the marriage and knock some sense into Argan.

young &amp; W!LD brings you, for the first time in Singapore, a witty and wacky new production of one of the world’s favourit

The Hypochondriac (2008)

W!LD RICE celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Michael Chiang and Dick Lee’s Beauty World – Singapore’s all-time favourite musical – with a sparkling new production at the Esplanade Theatre.

A mysterious jade pendant brings an innocent small town girl to Beauty World, a fabulous if somewhat seamy 1960s Singapore nightclub, where she hopes to find her long-lost father.

In her adventures, she meets up with her dotty pen-pal, gets a extreme make-over for her stage debut, crosses the path of the cabaret’s v

Beauty World (2008)

Chorus

MAD FOREST&nbsp;explores the blood and dreams that fed the 1989 Romanian revolution, which in turn led to the overthrow, trial and execution of the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. This darkly comic play exposes the heart of a people struggling for political change; tracing a nation’s tumultuous journey from repression to liberation – and beyond.

Delving deep into the lives of two families – one rich, one poor – caught in the whirlwind of a changing Romania,&nbsp;MAD FOREST&nbsp;asks audience a daring questio

Mad Forest (2007)

Movement Consultant

Ten Couples. One expressway. Ten stories of love and betrayal.

A lot can happen on a long drive…

Ten different couples, driving along the same highway…

Each dealing with their marriages on the rocks in a range of stunning and utterly unexpected ways…

Like a symphony of 10 movements, the often hilarious and always heart-wrenching vignettes are woven into a gripping journey of betrayal, and the love and hate it unearths.


On North Diversion Road (2007)

Under The Dragon Moon&nbsp;is a marvellous and mischievous collection of Asian Folk Tales, carefully selected from many stories, both well known and seldom-heard. Tales from China, India, the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Malaysia and Indonesia were researched and sorted.

Now we playfully transform a selection of these fascinating folk tales with live music, energetic physical theatre, masks and puppetry. Top musicians from gamelan asmaradana provide the live music soundtrack as our actors bring the stories

Under the Dragon Moon (2007)

Life’s a drag for Jack and his poor mother Widow Neo – the cupboard is bare, there are bills to pay and the loan sharks are circling. With the writing literally on the void-deck walls, they finally resort to selling Ah Kow, their beloved pet cow. But when Jack exchanges their pet for a mere handful of green beans instead of cold hard cash, disaster looms…

W!LD RICE proudly presents JACK &amp; THE BEAN-SPROUT!, a brand new musical-comedy-pantomime about dreams, a mother’s love, “taugeh” and the perils of 

Jack & the Bean-Sprout! (2006)

Ensemble

The Little Company

Gerda searches for her brother Kay after he is bewitched and imprisoned by the Snow Queen in her ice palace. Gerda's innocence charms all good people and animals she meets. With the help of the Crow family, she escapes an enchantress, visits the royal court and travels to the far North. There, in a final confrontation with the Snow Queen and her ice creatures, good conquers evil and the children are reunited.


The Snow Queen (2005)

A group of Forest Folk have returned to their forest home from wandering through Asia, bringing with them their favourite stories and tales. Fascinating Folk Tales from all over the region are celebrated through physical theatre and storytelling, puppetry and mask magic, evocative and atmospheric live music. This is LIVE theatre, not a storytelling session, or a film.

Tales of a prawn from Myanmar, a giant from Indonesia, buns from Japan, Dragons and heroes from China, a shirt from Malaysia, a trickster 

Dancing with Dragons (2004)

Kate Carl, an American artist, is invited to paint the portrait of the Empress of China, Cixi. When she arrives in China she hears many rumours about the Empress. She also meets George Morrison, an English journalist. He tells her not to be intimidated. Kate begins the portrait and while she paints, the Empress tells her about her life ...

The Empress, known as Yehenara as a young girl, was a concubine in the Forbidden City. She desperately wanted to be chosen by the Emperor to be his escort. And she was

Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress (2003)

Fairy Tales are not just for children…. piles of guts, heaps of breasts and the heads of young women litter the bloody chamber of Mr. Fox. Take a walk down&nbsp;The White Road&nbsp;and taste the darkness found only in nightmares. Be Bold, Be Bold, but not too Bold.

Based on Neil Gaiman’s (the brilliant mind behind The Sandman series)&nbsp;The White Road,&nbsp;the play is a surreal fairytale surfeit with beasts, vengeful fathers, comely maidens and a castle with a dark, dark secret.

Drawn from the stor

The White Road (2001)

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Jonathan Lum

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Jonathan Lum

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