The Theatre Practice

Dad, how's the script? (I mean, have you started?) I have some ideas for set and lighting already! Watch your health and don't eat too much. Mama says you're getting fat.With love,&nbsp;Hong, '89Featuring vignettes from The Theatre Practice's upcoming All The World's A Sea and correspondences between Kuo Jian Hong and the late Kuo Pao Kun, Performing The Director's Notes: All The World's A Sea is the unfolding of a decades-long dialogue between two generations of theatre practitioners.&nbsp;How do we transf

Performing The Director's Notes: All The World's A Sea (2024)

Movement Artist

Performer

The Necessary Stage

When Eric Lim returns home after studying abroad, he marries his long-time sweetheart and neighbour Shalini Mulchand. But a lot can happen in three years—especially when two families are united by love but divided by their pain.First staged in 1994 as part of the Singapore Festival of Arts, Three Years in the Life and Death of Land is about the Lims, the Mulchands, a ghost, a cat and three mosquitoes—one big family, trying hard to be happy.

Three Years in the Life and Death of Land (2023)

Movement Director

Choreographer

A lot can happen after Happily Ever After…One day of marriage. Ten years of separation.&nbsp;Another suitor lurks in the wings.Is true love really worth the wait?Will the soldier ever be reunited with his virtuous wife?&nbsp;The pioneers of Singapore Mandarin musicals are BACK with a highly-anticipated restaging of Lo Pei-An's The Soldier &amp; His Virtuous Wife.&nbsp;Inspired by the traditional Yuan opera Qiu Hu Flirts With His Wife, this Mandarin musical comedy combines Chinese Opera aesthetics with campy

The Soldier & His Virtuous Wife (2023)

7/8 Musical Collective

In Pieces: A New Musical is a song cycle by Joey Contreras that follows the romantic journeys of eight individuals. Set in New York City, there’s the scary excitement of being vulnerable and saying yes to whatever adventure is ahead. The magical first kiss. An unlikely friendship. Well-kept secrets. The monotony. The rebound. An awkward reunion on the 1 train. The honest conversations of deserving more. You never know how one little moment could change your day, and so we make a choice at the crossroad.

In Pieces (2022)

Cast

Production Manager

Kaya and Roti love to tell stories and sing nursery rhymes. More importantly, they love meeting new friends!A party is a great way to make friends. But… is there any way to throw a big bash now? Joined by their new pal Guyou, Kaya and Roti must rally together and get creative to find a new way to party and connect with their friends!Imaginative, playful and highly interactive, HERE COMES KAYA &amp; ROTI! "Where Are Our Friends?" is an extension of Practice's award-winning work in Mandarin Theatre for Young 

HERE COMES KAYA AND ROTI! "Where Are Our Friends?" (2021)

Wild Rice

The big news is out, and it’s enough to drive all the animals in the Heavenly Kingdom wild with excitement!

In just a few days’ time, the Heavenly Jade Emperor will host The Amazing Celestial Race. To make it across the finish line, contestants must survive diabolical detours, a raging river... and one another.

Every animal is raring to go, and ready to fight until the bitter end.

Because this is no ordinary race. It’s a chance for everlasting glory – the opportunity to become a legend.

Only 12 

The Amazing Celestial Race (2021)

It’s a perfectly ordinary day in a perfectly ordinary café in Singapore. Or is it?

Two old friends chat and snap selfies over plates of fried chicken and aglio olio pasta. The three wait-staff bicker and constantly refill cups of coffee while waiting for their shifts to end.

But something strange is brewing both inside and outside of the café. Perhaps it’s finally time to wake up and smell the coffee – if it’s not already too late to do so.

A darkly funny psychological thriller with a conscience,&n

Cafe (2020)

Kaya and Roti love to tell stories and sing nursery rhymes. More importantly, they love meeting new friends. But... with everyone stuck at home, what can they do? With the help of their pal Guyou, Kaya and Roti must rally together, get creative and find new ways to connect with their friends!Playful, imaginative and engaging, HERE COMES KAYA AND ROTI! "Where Are Our Friends?" reinvents classic Mandarin nursery rhymes as a three-episode interactive family show series.&nbsp;HERE COMES KAYA AND ROTI! "Where Ar

HERE COMES KAYA AND ROTI! "Where Are Our Friends?" (2020)

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)

Can once-in-a-lifetime happen again?

FATE is when the scholar Sang Xiao meets the vixen fox Ying Ning.
AFFECTION is when Ying Ning hides her identity to be with a mortal.
MISHAP is when the priest Cheng Ban Xian exposes her secret.
FOLLY is when Sang Xiao is tricked by the water spirit Feng San Niang.
LOVE is when Ying Ning risks her life to enter the Underworld.
Will the bittersweet lovers escape the bane of King Yama and change their destiny?

The scholar Sang Xiao falls in love with the fox spi

Liao Zhai Rocks! (2019)

Singapore Repertory Theatre

Singapore Repertory Theatre and Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, invite you to join us for the restaging of the most successful original musical ever to be produced in Singapore –&nbsp;Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress. Following three sold-out runs and over 100,000 tickets sold, this epic musical promises to be the cultural event of the year.

The musical stars Kit Chan as the Empress Dowager Cixi, with Cheryl Tan as the young imperial concubine, Yehenara, and features music by Cultural Medallion wi

Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress (2017)

Associate Choreographer

Spare Room Productions

A Brand New Show about Sexy! Sixties! Singapore!

The year is 1968, and a lavish Las Vegas style niteclub opens its doors for the very first time in the heart of Orchard Road.

Known for its international class topless revues, glamorous stars and lifestyle of the rich and famous of its time, Tropicana captured the imagination of the nation and brought some hard-hitting realities to light.&nbsp;Tropicana The Musical&nbsp;is a story less about tits than it is about balls. The balls of a nation of dream ma

Tropicana the Musical (2017)

Dance Captain

Lao Jiu,&nbsp;a Singapore classic that has stood the test of time, will awake your aspiration to pursue your dream.

Lao Jiu, literally "the ninth child", is the only son in the family. An incredibly intelligent boy on track to win a prestigious scholarship, but he finds his true calling in the declining traditional puppetry arts. Torn between his dream and responsibilities, will Lao Jiu follow his heart; or will he cave to the needs of his family, seeking wealth and success?

Lao Jiu: The Musical&nbsp;

Lao Jiu: The Musical (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)

The Little Company

故事中的三只出羊一一羊老大、半小二和小咩咩一一感情要好、关系亲密，经常和照顾它们的牧羊人在草原上玩耍，大伙儿快乐地生活在一起。可是，干旱以后，大地变得一片枯黄，快没有食物可以吃了。

不巧的是，当它们正要过桥到山谷的另一端寻找食物时，却遇见爱吃羊肉的怪兽。而这只可怕的怪兽最喜欢吃的，就是肥嫩嫩的羊肉！

The Three Billy Goats Gruff (affectionately known as "Baby", "Middle", and "Big") are a close-knit bunch who graze happily together with their caretaker, Little Bo-Frilly. But one day, it dawns on them that they are in the middle of a horrible drought. As the grounds turn a dreadful shade of brown, they're slowly but surely running out food.

Unfortun

三只山羊 (2016)

"Little Bo-Frilly said that Trolls are a bit slow and dim-witted... We must find a way to distract him and then we can skip past him, escape his clutches, and get to safety on the other side of the bridges!"

The Three Billy Goats Gruff (affectionately known as "Baby", " Middle", and "Big") graze happily together with their caretaker, Little Bo-Filly. But one day, it dawns on them that they are in the middle of a horrible drought. As the grounds turn a dreadful shade of brown, they are slowly but surely r

The Three Billy Goats Gruff (2015)

Understudy

"I'm Santa's only son. I'm supposed to take over and I don't even understand how Christmas magic works!"

Junior Claus is the rebellious heir to an immense empire in the North Pole, where elves busily prepare for the biggest day of the year - Christmas. When Santa falls into a deep sleep because the Belief-o-Meter falls to a dangerously low level, Grumpo the greedy elf assumes power as Chief Investor in Santa's workshop. After Junior runs away from home, Grumpo attempts to achieve his sinister goal: ruin 

Junior Claus (2014)

Asylum Theatre

Eight whimsical short plays written and directed by Dean Lundquist.


Holiday in My Head (2014)

Tan Kheng Hua

A fable is told, of two men who came in the belly of a Chinese junk to Penang in the late 1800s. These two men, who had never met before, became fast friends on the boat, and shared their spilt blood to swear blood brotherhood in their new life in the Nanyang. In time both men prospered, and eventually built 2 houses on Northam Road, near each other, as a testimony to their enduring friendship.

Our tale is one of memory, spun from the imagination of an avid listener of old Penang family fables, myths, st

2 Houses (2014)

Singer

Rising Son is set during the Japanese invasion and occupation of Singapore between 1941 and 1945. 18 year-old Sunny (Tan Shou Chen) is enlisted as an ambulance orderly when the bombing starts, and does his best to protect his naive, but headstrong, younger sister Ruby (Seong Hui Xuan) from the horrific realities of war.

When the occupation begins, and Singapore becomes Syonan-To, the siblings meet a young Japanese army lawyer (Caleb Goh) who has moved into the house next door. An awkward friendship devel

Rising Son (2014)

Dream Academy

It’s that time of year when the world falls in love… Crazy in Love with Christmas! For this year’s Christmas bonus – the Dim Sum Dollies will make their comeback! Selena Tan and Pam Oei welcome their newest Dolly, Denise Tan! They will be joined by other “Ting Tong Belles” – Petrina Kow, Mina Kaye, Glory Ngim, Seong Hui Xuan and Judee Tan. All the girls are coming together to sing, dance, laugh and love their hearts out. Only girls? Ok… ok so Sebastian Tan manages to crash this party as a “Broadway Beng” an

Crazy Christmas: Ting Tong Belles (2013)

In Pangdemonium’s Gruesome Playground Injuries, Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph has crafted “a perfect dissection of contemporary love-lost relationships.” (Idaho Statesman), and one of the most startlingly original and screwed-up love stories of modern times.

We follow Kayleen (Seong Hui Xuan - Rabbit Hole) and Doug (Alan Wong - The MTV Show) from age 8 to 38, leaping back and forth over the course of their lives in a deliriously disjointed time-continuum. Doug is full of life and absurdly “acciden

Gruesome Playground Injuries (2013)

Orangedot Productions

Appliance repairmen Rex and Heng turn up at the home of two listless friends Lina and Kim, and proceed to “fix the washing machine”. But things are not what they seem as a spiral of events soon leads the four into the uncharted territory of the heart.

Performed by up and coming actors, Julian Low, Eden Ang, Oon Shu An and Seong Hui Xuan, this chilling production takes a hard look at love, sex and romance, and explores the timeless theme of predator and prey in the need-want-desire game of relationships.

Machine (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)

Crazy Christmas is an annual MUST-SEE! Catch this year’s star studded cast with a great big band and a bevy of dancing gals we like to call the Merry Miss-el’toes. Crazy Christmas gets bigger, better and brighter every year as Singapore’s finest entertainers together with the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Audrey Hepburn and good ole’ Charlie Chaplin bring you song, dance, laughter and love. This year, we celebrate movie magic as the Silver Screen meets Silver Bells! Apart from our favou

Crazy Christmas (2012)

Dream World Productions presents its first production, COMPANY by Stephen Sondheim – A winner of seven TONY Awards including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Music and Best Original Lyrics in the 1971 Original Broadway production and Best Revival of a Musical in the 2006 Broadway Revival. This super-funny musical comedy explores the pros and cons, the ups and downs as well as the ins and outs of being single. Join our talented cast as they try to persuade our hero, Robert, to do what our 

Company (2012)

Ladies and Gentlemen, OPEN YOUR EYES.

You have arrived at LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, the&nbsp;fabulous nightclub in&nbsp;&nbsp;Tanjong Pagar, where&nbsp;George plays host and&nbsp;Albin, his longtime partner, headlines its&nbsp;world-famous cabaret as glamorous diva Zaza.

Everything is beautiful, until George’s son, John, announces that he is getting married&nbsp;to the daughter of Mr. D.D. Tan, a right-wing&nbsp;politician who wants to close down the local colourful nightlife.

When John&nbsp;brings his f

La Cage aux Folles (2012)

Orsino, the Duke of Illyria, pines for the love of Lady Olivia. Lady Olivia, however, is in mourning for her dead brother and refuses to entertain any proposals of marriage.

Meanwhile, a storm brews across the coast, causing a terrible shipwreck. A young, aristocratic-born woman named Viola is swept onto the Illyrian shore. Alone in a strange land, she assumes that her twin brother, Sebastian, has been drowned in the wreck. She decides to try and look for work that she can do to get by. A sea captain tel

Twelfth Night (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)

Everybody wants to rule the world…

And so does Wizard ABBA-k’adab-rah! All he needs is 3 wishes from the Genie in the Magic Lamp. But only Aladdin, a boy who is pure of heart, can help him get the Lamp. Together with Jasmine, the not-so-little Nyonya from the Blue Mansion, they head to the fabled Batu Caves.&nbsp;

But what treachery lies in store for poor Aladdin? When the Wizard traps Aladdin in the cave and kidnaps Jasmine away to his harem of Single Ladies in the exotic land of Ukenastan, will it b

Aladdin (2011)

Ensemble

In recession-hit Buffalo, New York, best friends Jerry and Dave are among hundreds of unemployed steel workers. Desperate to earn some money to pay for his child support obligations, Jerry finds unlikely inspiration in the form of a touring troupe of Chippendales, and decides to form his very own STRIP ACT.

He assembles a motley crew and declared that they are even better than the Chippendales because his gang will go “all the way”…. But when it’s showtime, will the boys overcome their inner demons and p

The Full Monty (2010)

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.&nbsp;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

Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress (2006)

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BITTEN: Return to Our Roots&nbsp;is a closer look at what fundamentally roots all of us, in our generation’s attempt to reconnect with out cultures and lineage, yet giving a fresh spin on how we interpret our traditions. How are elements of family history passed down from one generation to the next? Are bloodlines the only way to understand heritage, family and human ties? How do our different traditions and cultures coalesce to create the unique Singapore identity and kampong spirit?

BITTEN: Return to O

BITTEN: Return to Our Roots by Thong Pei Qin & Nidya Shanthini Manokara

Actor

A fable is told of two men who came in the belly of a Chinese junk to Penang in the late 1800s. These two men, who had never met, became fast friends on the boat, and shared their spilt blood to swear blood brotherhood in their new life in the Nanyang.

Fast forward to 10th December 1941. The event is a state committee party at a wealthy pro-British towkay’s residence to quell fears, and demonstrate British presence and commitment. They do not know it yet, but in a few hours the bombs will fall and devast

Seong Hui Xuan

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