Nine Years Theatre

Dive into the enchanting underwater world with Phinny, a gentle dolphin, and Wally, an enthusiastic whale. In their vibrant ocean home, filled with coral figurines and playful adventures, these unlikely friends explore the wonders and face the challenges of the sea. With ship threats and pollution encroaching on their home, Phinny and Wally discover that unity and friendship are their greatest allies. Together, their unbreakable bond reminds us that true friends never leave each other behind, no matter the 

Phinny & Wally (2024)

Production Manager

The Finger Players

There once was a family of four: the father vehemently denies his own infidelity; an erudite yet loquacious old mother is confined to her bed; a son grapples with the complexities of love amid academic struggles; and a wife is plagued by the three afflictions of greed, hatred and ignorance. Their lives take a dark turn when a mysterious yet alluring homeless damsel becomes their maid, personifying the malevolent forces that torment the wife’s restless soul.  &nbsp;Drawing inspiration from various tales in t

《移心》Transplant (2024)

PENG comes home to an empty house most of the time. But today he is not alone – he has MOOD MANAGER (BETA) – the emotion-activated mood manager!

With MOOD MANAGER (BETA) around, is PENG still alone or is PENG just…lonely? He has no clue; all he knows is this – nobody hears what’s inside his head and nobody knows what’s inside his heart. But perhaps things will change today, because MOOD MANAGER (BETA) is here to stay.

THE WORLD OF OUR OWN is a&nbsp;non-verbal puppetry performance&nbsp;about loneliness

The World of Our Own (2023)

A kidnapping of the country’s president. A system to predict the future through data analysis. A technology secretly planted to control human minds. An anti-government organisation. A monitored phone call. A plan within a plan.What is the password? Who is the mole? What are the odds? Who can really control the variables?Nine Years Theatre joins forces with Hsing Legend Youth Theatre, the youth wing of Contemporary Legend Theatre from Taiwan in this cross-border collaboration, exploring an artistic dialogue 

Immortal Variables (2023)

Production Coordinator

Joel Tan

Tan Shou Chen

An old playground in Ang Mo Kio is slated to be bulldozed. Three 20-something friends and a stranger gather to protest its demolition. What starts as a well-meaning but ill-conceived protest escalates quickly to a night of reckoning. Relationships are tested, convictions challenged and identities scrapped. Much like the playground itself, the lives of these four characters are sucked into an endless cycle of forgetting, destruction, loss and letting go.&nbsp;An ode to the hang-ups and dramas of a generation

Mosaic (2023)

Stage Manager

Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

After smashing her work computer in the office pantry in an uncharacteristic fit of rage, Risa is now sat in a room with Dr Robert, her newly acquired therapist. She cannot go back to how she was living before. Risa must look back on her own life to look forward. What caused her to end up at this exact spot?Was it her Catholic ah ma whose funeral she skipped, her ex-girlfriend whom she loved deeply but broke up with, or her tendency to feel too much? Or maybe... something else entirely?This is a story about

I am trying to say something true (2023)

Drama Box

Qing is struggling to deal with the aftermath of a relationship that ended after 20 years. E is negotiating the difficult position of sole-caregiving to a mother who does not fully accept her.&nbsp;Both Qing and E identify as queer, and are in their fifties. On the cusp of old age, Qing and E are finding that they have another set of challenges to overcome as queer individuals.&nbsp;When cloud catches colours is a verbatim theatre based on true accounts that highlights how the sense of safety changes for a 

When cloud catches colours (2023)

“If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven’t been paying attention.”&nbsp;When I was sevenI made a list of all the good in the world&nbsp;Every brilliant thing worth living forIt was a gift for my motherI hoped she would find a reason to liveA man, a list, a million brilliant things.A healing journey with me, navigatingthe struggles of life with abundant laughs.Following a sold-out run during Huayi 2022, Oliver Chong returns 

Every Brilliant Thing (2023)

A woman, a wild animal, and her lover try living in a house together. They try, and fail, and try again, through seismic and galactic shifts. This is a story about how our house breaks our hearts, and how we let it.&nbsp;My House is a Wild World is interested in how both our island homes are strange / wild in their own way, and is a multidisciplinary site-responsive performance work.

My House is a Wild World (2022)

Emergency Stairs

A group of students embarked on a journey of reform and transformation to create their ideal school, with their individual and shared hopes, anxieties, reflections and doubts.Why are they doing it? What are they envisioning? What are their blind spots? What are the possible consequences? When all is said and done, are their dreams simply one touch away from dust – perceived as nothing but self-serving, whimsical projections of naivete? Or could these aspirational endeavours, just possibly, hint at a glint o

Dream School (2022)

There is no plot, no story to be told. These actors play no particular character. There is no fictional time to see, no narrative to observe, as expected in most theatre pieces.&nbsp;Austrian dramatist Peter Handke’s&nbsp;Offending the Audience&nbsp;challenges audiences to abandon every expectation upon entering the theatre. Here, actors gaze into audiences’ eyes, addressing them as fellow human beings, playfully questioning the very nature of theatre, examining and ‘diagnosing the pulse’ of the medium itse

Offending the Audience (2022)

A drag queen, a filmmaker and a movement artist walk into… ONE-TWO-SIX Cairnhill Arts Centre.Home to The Finger Players, and home to puppets that the company has amassed since 1999, three artists give these puppets new lives, enriching their histories and extending their lifespans beyond what they were made for.Puppet Origin Stories @ ONE-TWO-SIX is a night of site-responsive performances + an exhibition of the company’s tangible histories + an easter egg hunting-esque/lucky draw-esque… thing.Come join us l

Puppet Origin Stories @ ONE-TWO-SIX (2022)

Kelvin and Annie have been together for 29 years, from the time they met and fell in love, to the time they got married, had children, and started a business together. The way they maintain their relationship is to always celebrate their anniversary, and to look back on the many firsts in their lives - first date, first kiss, the first time they held hands, the first breakup… However, the reality of life forbids them to keep looking back. In the end, who remembers? And who is reminiscing?


See You, Anniversary (2022)

Elderly scams are on the rise, and shame is in abundance.An elderly couple navigates technology together at a digital confidence workshop. There are too many buttons on the home screen, too many apps to download, and too many associations to remember. They struggle to adapt what they have learnt in real life, but life gets in the way. Through the device in their hands, they navigate love, grief and multiple scams.Presented by The Finger Players and supported by the Qualcomm Foundation, SCAM ON YOU is a perf

Scam On You (2022)

When I was seven
I made a list of all the good in the world
Every brilliant thing worth living for
It was a gift for my mother
I hoped she would find a reason to live.

A man, a list, a million brilliant things.&nbsp;
A healing journey with&nbsp;me, navigating the struggles of life with abundant laughs.

Following&nbsp;Roots&nbsp;and&nbsp;A Fiend’s Diary, Oliver Chong’s next one-man show of the year.&nbsp;

In this new year of 2022, The Finger Players celebrates all that is sweet&nbsp;in the ever

Every Brilliant Thing (2022)

PENG lives alone – in a world of his own, with rules of his own, but this pandemic is not just his own. He sets about creating the world he wants to live in, making decisions, drawing timetables, living by the clock; tick-tock, tick-tock.

But PENG still dreams, and in these dreams, his mind dreams of a different world. He listens to his routine and listens to the world, and eventually listens to his mind. What does it say? What should he do? Should he do this alone, or should it include other people too?

The World of Our Own (2021)

In 1879, scientific genius Thomas Edison successfully created the world's first practical incandescent bulb. He was about to light up New York and the entire world, using his Direct Current electrical system. Along came another inventor Nikola Tesla who insisted that his Alternating Current electrical system was superior to Edison's. A battle ensued, as ambitions and aspirations clashed in this "War of Currents". What drove these great minds to achieve the impossible, and what must they learn to sacrifice i

Electrify My World (2021)

Wild Rice

Times are tough. The company is downsizing. Survival is all Thomas, Tony and Isobel can think about as they wait for their boss to arrive. They know that, by the end of the meeting, only two of them will be left standing. With their careers on the line, the trio will do whatever it takes to make one final good impression. No blow is too low.

Diving into the murky depths of office politics, Mike Bartlett’s award- winning Bull invites us to examine the darker side of capitalism. Is climbing the corporate l

Bull (2021)

Technician

Revolutions happen. Governments change. The one thing that has stayed the same throughout the course of human history? Adults always think they know better than the young.

But that’s not necessarily true. There are so many lessons that grown- ups can afford to learn from the young people who will one day run the world.

Schooled is a devised theatre production written and conceptualised by the 12 fearless young theatre-makers in Wild Rice’s inaugural Singapore Youth Theatre ensemble. Over the course of

Schooled (2020)

Technical Crew

Candide is an optimist. A dreamer. He believes that everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

But that belief is about to be tested when Candide’s comfortable life is overtaken by an endless barrage of misfortune. As his world collapses around him, Candide attempts to reunite with his love, Cunegonde.

At the same time, the story travels across the centuries to new locations and parallel universes, where a woman tries to find a way back to happiness after experiencing a hugely trau

Candide (2020)

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)

Su-Lin’s mother, Molly, considers herself a collector. To her, everything has a story, and a place in her home. When Su-Lin’s American boyfriend asks to visit, this sets mother and daughter on a collision course.

Why does Molly feel the need to surround herself with all&nbsp;of her belongings? What does Su-Lin learn when she digs through things that she’s usually forbidden to touch? And can the relationship between Molly and Su-Lin survive coming face-to-face with their deepest, darkest secrets?

Humor

Mine (2020)

Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts

A grandmother is dying.
Her grandson is in New York and she’s in Singapore. He refuses to come home and she puts her foot down. She buys him a flat and he buys her a coffin.

A woman and a man are in love.
A third party buys a bed but gets nothing else. Three’s a crowd but no one wants to budge. Does love know no boundaries or is there just too much greed?

A criminal is on the loose.
His father is going berserk. His mother has bought breakfast but no one wants to eat.&nbsp;

The Devil pays all thr

Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (2020)

Seen through the eyes of a child,&nbsp;Love is the Last Thing on my Mind&nbsp;is a collection of vignettes of everyday society.

A child is obsessed by gardening while her mother is obsessed with protecting her from the enveloping haze, an elderly home of neglected old folks confront their mortality, a couple in love gradually transit towards mutual neglect.

Directed by The Finger Players Core Team Member, Ong Kian Sin, Love is the Last Thing on my Mind&nbsp;is a heart-warming piece about the seemingly

Love is the Last Thing on my Mind (2020)

“Everyone should have a chance to be King. Now, it’s my turn."

Based on the famous 16th-century epic novel by Wu Cheng’en, this is an action-packed tale of the roguish Monkey King and his exploits in a Journey To Nowhere.

Ingenious, witty, violent and impatient, Monkey has been imprisoned because of the chaos he has wrought in heaven. To be redeemed, he must guide the Buddhist monk Tripitaka on a mystical quest. Together with lovesick Pigsy, they encounter demons, spirits, dragons and gods on what see

Journey To Nowhere (2020)

Everyday existence is a colourless hue. Then a woman transforms into a crow. The woman is a crow, a voyeur and a destabilizing self-loather. Its quest – to peep and mimic, lurk and conceal, deceive and try, to, be. Peepbird&nbsp;is a meeting place between puppetry and movement aesthetics, an exploration of destabilized identities and the state of being colourless.&nbsp;


Peepbird (2020)

How can one survive and love in a broken world? How do we get along with ourselves?

Inspired by British playwright Sarah Kane’s last work&nbsp;4.48 Psychosis, Young Artist Award recipient Liu Xiaoyi presents FOUR FOUR EIGHT, a brand-new work that leads you into a world, a social construct, where every audience member becomes a participant in a space of gathering and camaraderie; anchored in a place of urban loneliness – the bar.

Taking place in and around an actual bar, the perceptions of individual a

Four Four Eight (2019)

Production Crew

Singapore Repertory Theatre

The Little Company

Polly Piper is bored. It's raining outside and she's played with all her toys a million times.

After wishing she was "anywhere but here" Polly uncovers a magical doorway into Miny Moe - an amazing world filled with Nursery Rhyme characters. As King Cole's newly appointed chief detective, Polly must solve the puzzle of why this strange world is so topsy turvy and naughty crimes have sprung up everywhere. Jack and Jill have lost their memories, Humpty has been pushed from the wall and it looks like Bo Peep

Nursery Crimes (2018)

Lighting Operator

The Theory of Relativity tells us: If a car moves at the speed of light, time will stand still, and space will fall away.

In the hauntingly quiet Esplanade B2 carpark, two men meet. One is Zhang Jun, possessing in him 600 years of Kun Opera history. The other is George Chan, trained in musicals, the centuries-old Western art form. As the prince of Kunqu and leading actor of musicals face each other, each with their own histories and cultures etched in their bodies, what do they say? What can’t they hold 

Einstein in the Carpark (2018)

In The Spirits Play, five Japanese spirits – a General, a Man, a Mother, a Girl and a Poet – recollect their life experiences in the Second World War. They are thrown into turmoil in their attempt to understand the war and its atrocities that were inflicted upon them not only by the foreign enemy but also by their own government and army. A notable work in Singapore theatre, The Spirits Play poignantly depicts the agony, guilt and turmoil left in the aftermath of war.


The Spirits Play (2017)

Roots is the winner of The Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards 2013 for Best Production and Best Script. Written, directed and performed by Oliver Chong from The Finger Players, Roots centres on his journey in search of his ancestral home in China. With only the scantiest clues to go on, he struggles to uncover a family secret which may or may not be true. Fixated on finding the truth, Chong's multilingual monologue skilfully and humorously portrays the different characters encountered on his increasingly co

Roots (2017)

Assistant Stage Manager

You will see no play.

Four nameless performers, in a space without boundaries. No plot, no love nor sorrow, no more roller coaster narrative. And the stage does not represent another place. What then shall happen in theatre? When all pretence is stripped, is everything then genuine?

In 1966, Austrian playwright Peter Handke rose to prominence with Offending the Audience, a play that challenged perceptions of theatre and rocked the establishment of the day.

Five decades later, this special Huayi com

Offending the Audience (2017)

Richard Wagner Association

OperaViva Limited

Wagner based the spooky plot of Der Fliegende Holländer on the legend of a Dutch sea captain who vows to sail around the Cape of Good Hope.

Condemned by the devil to be endlessly at sea, he may land once every seven years and search for the faithful woman whose true love will be his only salvation.

During a furious storm, Norwegian sea captain Daland has taken shelter with his ship when the deathly masts of the Flying Dutchman’s vessel loom nearby. Daland agrees that the Dutchman will follow him home 

The Flying Dutchman (2016)

Assistant Technical Manager

Intercultural Theatre Institute

ITI’s next graduation showcase – Plaything of the Gods - re-tells tales of heroes and demons, lovers, maidens and warriors, drawn from famed Sanskrit epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata.

Directed by ITI’s Wayang Wong master-teacher Bambang “Besur” Suryono (Bambang Mbesur), dramaturged by the institute’s Director and Cultural Medallion recipient Thirunalan Sasitharan.

Selected narrative and dramatic elements from these texts will be combined with performative elements – dance, music, gesture, vocalisation,

Plaything of the Gods (2016)

Crew

The Theatre Practice

Over the last few years, the more I get to know about&nbsp;Kunqu&nbsp;and its artists, the more I see its resemblance to Zheng He and his plight. The body of the&nbsp;Kunqu&nbsp;artist has survived the past 600 years - every expression, gesture and movement - they made up its form, which is also its content. However, the traditional artists inherited this craft from their forebears, through a very strict and controlled training which can be somewhat cruel - "Don't ask, just do it ten thousand times and it'l

Descendants 600 (2016)

"The time is out of joint - O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!" -&nbsp;Hamlet

Tasked with the mission to avenge his father, the orphaned prince Hamlet is no longer a free individual but the seed for revenge; Othello, influenced by his blood lineage and skin colour, is lost in his jealousy; Cordelia's love for her father Lear is misunderstood as a plot to take away his inheritance, which results in Lear's oppression of his daughter.

The avenging orphan, the lost descendants, the bani

Descendants 400 (2016)

If Shakespeare was a female&nbsp;Kunqu&nbsp;artist from Nanking or a female physical theatre artist from Bangkok and working today, how would the characters of Gertrude and Ophelia in&nbsp;Hamlet&nbsp;be written and performed differently? How would this difference reflect and affect our societies?

Developed in a one week rehearsal at B-Floor Theatre in Bangkok,&nbsp;⇄Gertrude⇄Ophelia⇄ is a twenty-minute non-verbal performance structured within Hong Kong director Danny Yung's acclaimed "One Table Two Chai

⇄Gertrude⇄Ophelia⇄ (2016)

A soulful monologue on life and its departure.

She says the body becomes 21 grams lighter upon death.
She says that is the weight of the soul.
No. That is merely the loss of water.
Or, are our souls made of water?&nbsp;

She has no idea how to speak of his death. She can neither recount the incident nor knows what to make of this strange detachment. Who would listen and if that matters?

Co-creators Janice Sze Wan Poon (Text), Liu Xiaoyi (Director) and Melissa Leung Hiu Tuen (Cast) will bring you 

Fleet (2016)

Two of the most exciting directors from Japan and Singapore, Shigeki Nakano and Chong Tze Chien, inject their bold and invigorating interpretations of the modern noh (a form of theatre orginating in the 14th century) classic, The Damask Drum, by Yukio Mishima.

Regarded as the father of modern noh drama, Mishima’s adaptation from the original tale by 14th century playwright Zeami Motokiyo, centres around an old man's infatuation with a beautiful neighbour. This results in his suicide when the latter and h

Drums (2016)

Two years ago, I was in the courtyard of Nanjing Kun Opera Theatre, and happened to chat with a few young Kun Opera actors about Zheng He. The pursuit of one's goals, the difficulties of reality, the yearning for foreign lands, and the acknowledgment of fundamental desires. This was what I felt at that time: For some, their hearts may no longer be present, yet they confine themselves in isolation; for others, they may remain in the same place, yet they have traversed a great distance. Under the sturdy roof 

Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral - Is (2015)

What is nothing?
What is being?
What is being from nothing?

How to go from nothing to being?
How to go from being to nothing?

To imagine nothing, does that invalidate its nothingness?
To discuss nothing, does that also invalidate its nothingness?
To write of nothing, does that become being?

Is it impossible to speak of nothing?&nbsp;


Nothing (2015)

Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral - Was (2015)

A new devised play featuring a lineup of veteran &amp; new theatre performers.

In 1969, Kuo Pao Kun wrote and directed&nbsp;The Struggle,&nbsp;which was banned by the government two weeks before its opening. The artistic team was forced to replace the performance with poetry recital and skits.&nbsp;The Struggle&nbsp;remains Kuo Pao Kun's only script yet to be staged. It reflects upon the social turmoil resulting from rapid urban development and people's struggles against these changes back in the 70s.&nb

The Struggle: Years Later (2015)

With only the scantiest clues to go on, a man undertakes a humourous and serendipitous search for his ancestral home in China to uncover a family secret which may or may not be true. This man, so fixated on finding out the truth, may or may not find what he is searching for in the first place. Director, playwright and actor, Oliver Chong, delivers a monologue about finding oneself in a strange world he calls home.


Roots (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)

Production Stage Manager

Backstabbing, under the table dealings and double-crossing – it’s just another day in the world of real estate.

Housing agents, new and old immigrants are fighting for properties in land scarce Singapore. Someone has to give in, somehow. Who bends the rules and breaks the law?

Two tenants share their rental woes, shedding light on unscrupulous house owners and realtors.

It’s one thing to survive, and another to live.


Citizen Pig (2013)

10 seconds, how long is it?

Long. Short. Too much. Too little.

Grab every moment. Wears on like years.

In a lifetime, how many 10 seconds are there?&nbsp;

From life to death, how many 10 seconds are there?

Time. In between time. How does one live?


10 (2013)

W.C. (2013)

She is an actress. Everyone thinks she is too loud;

She is not an actress. Everyone thinks she is too soft.

She teachers her to project her voice and vice versa.&nbsp;

How can a voice be projected?

How can a voice be heard?

Both are in search of the answer...&nbsp;


Unsound (2013)

Legend tells of 24 sons and daughters in ancient Chinese times who took parental respect to exceptional extremes, even wrestling tigers and weeping to make plants grow for their parents. Here, three of the top tales are adapted by celebrated local puppet theatre company The Finger Players.


Tales of Filial Piety (2013)

Adapted from a classical Chinese epic, Journey to the West: Treasures from the Dragon Palace is the story of Sun Wukong the Monkey King, his master Xuanzang, and his friend Pigsy. Follow the powerful but rebellious Monkey King as he goes on a quest around the Earth and the Heavens to hunt down the perfect weapon to fend off evil.

Watch the legendary story of the Monkey King come alive through an array of traditional hand puppets and puppetry techniques. The audience will be invited to participate in an i

Journey to the West: Treasures from the Dragon Palace (2013)

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)

A daughter faces her transvestite father’s impending death. However, her last lap with him does not come smoothly, as she unearths his suppressed secret which wreaks emotional hell on the parent-and-child relationship.

It is not the father’s penchant to cross dress that drives a wedge between the two — that is open knowledge. It is something else.

While the horrified daughter struggles with the emotions that run riot through her, her father, trying desperately to discern the meaning of life, is greete

The Book of Living and Dying (2012)

Surtitle Operator

A man goes in search of his hometown in China with only the scantiest clues to go on. His grandmother could only remember the name of a distant relative, who may or may not be alive in China.

With only that name, the man trawls through the internet for information and zeros in on a place which may or may not be his grandfather’s hometown. The man, so fixated on finding out the truth, may or may not find what he is searching for in the first place.

Director, playwright and actor, Oliver Chong, delivers

Roots (2012)

Nezha is an extraordinary child born with tremendous strength and special gifts. Much loved by all in his hometown, Nezha has a doting mother and strict father who wishes he would put his talent to good use. One day, Nezha fights and defeats the son of the Dragon King. This angers the Dragon King and he sends a raging flood to wipe out Nezha's hometown. Nezha's father tries to fend off the Dragon King but fails. To save his parents and home, Nezha sacrifices himself. This act of bravery and filial piety mov

The Legend of Nezha (2012)

T:>Works (TheatreWorks)

Adapted from a Hokkien short story by Chien Swee Teng in his 1979 novel Bak Teng&nbsp;(Diced Meat), the&nbsp;enfant terribles&nbsp;of Singapore contemporary art, Vertical Submarine, invoke bittersweet tragedies of home and family with their theatrical debut. Fusing dioramas, dramaturgy, and installation art, the performance unfolds over decades within a flat. It begins with a bitchy couple who pester a young man to sell his apartment. We then hear the sounds of demolition and concrete debris falling, and an

Dust: A Recollection (2011)

I Theatre

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)

Stage Assistant

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)

Stage Crew

A long way out in the deep blue sea swims a shoal of the most beautiful fish in the entire ocean. Their scales are every shade of blue, green or purple and ONE has a sparkling silver scale… Based on Marcus Pfister’s award winning storybook, I Theatre is again proud to present this marvellous hit musical for the whole family in Singapore — reimagined for the BIG stage!

Meet proud and pretty Rainbow Fish, and her friends, Starfish, Small Blue, Big Violet and Little Green. Rainbow Fish learns some very valu

The Rainbow Fish (2011)

The Necessary Stage

Examine contemporary Singapore with The Necessary Stage as the company revisits historical characters, merges fact and faction, and have them interact in real and imagined events. Looking at the themes of migration, harmony and identity,&nbsp;SINGAPORE&nbsp;probes deeply into a country's past and the psyche of the people. Featuring a 'politically correct' multi-racial cast, the play is seriously funny and deceitfully truthful.


SINGAPORE (2011)

Multimedia Operator

A foreign journalist is taken to task after writing some objectionable articles. A university exchange student tries to organise a forum on campus and encounters obstacles.&nbsp;

The lives of these unlikely individuals meet and intertwine in The Necessary Stage's latest production. Characters clash, tensions run high, and truth is questioned. Can we turn back time and return to a harmonious past?

Who is allowed to speak out for what they believe? Do we welcome the views of foreigners? Or should they '

Balek Kampong (2011)

Video Operator

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