Toy Factory Productions Limited

Eight individuals from diverse walks of life, brought together by fate, board the flight – Voyage Ksitigarbha – bound for Trayastrimsa Island. Each carries personal hopes and desires. When a sudden in-flight crisis strikes, they are forced to confront their deepest fears and re-examine their pasts and choices…Presented by Di Zang Lin and produced by Toy Factory, Voyage Ksitigarbha is an original Mandarin play that weaves the wisdom of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s salvation of sentient beings into contemporary 

Voyage Ksitigarbha (2025)

Cast

Le Jeu Studio

A man, a table, a pack of instant noodles, a can of luncheon meat, a cassette tape recorder. This is a journey of life, about reflection and acceptance. When the present meets the past, perhaps the future becomes clear. Every day, an elderly man eats a can of luncheon meat, to keep a promise to his wife. Alone and adrift, he revisits past moments and memories, in search of meaning and closure. As the days pass, he gets closer to his last can of luncheon meat.

Last Luncheon (2025)

Writer

Director

Performer

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)

Puppeteer

In the race of fashion-trends, our planet pays the price.Green citizen Claire’s world is turned upside down when she discovers a SOS note hidden within her company’s new clothing inventory. As she embarks on a quest to seek the face behind the message, her journey leads her to a massive garment factory in a foreign land. In this biting new play, Claire encounters both unexpected allies and staunch opposition, as she unravels the mystery of an anonymous victim.However, her pursuit not only exposes the hidden

The Prisoner (2023)

Mentor

Singapore Repertory Theatre

Goldilocks, on a trip into the forest, ventures into a seemingly uninhabited house. As she makes herself feel at home, Goldilocks turns the place into a gigantic mess! Little does she know that the house belongs to a family of three bears, who will not be too pleased to witness her handiwork.Join a happy family of porridge-hungry bears, Goldilocks and her father Mr Locks in this bear-faced, cheeky family musical. In this modern twist of the beloved classic, Goldilocks and the bears try to save the forest an

Goldilocks and the Three Bears (2023)

A relationship has run its course and a man sits at his desk to finalize a separation.

Parting (2023)

All the World is One’s Stage is an Esplanade commission, produced by Toy Factory Productions, the heart of Huayi – Chinese Festival of Arts 2021.The stage raises its curtains to the illustrious careers, life stories, and heartfelt moments of four well-known Singaporean veteran actors who effortlessly exude the values of love, respect, passion and dedication across the years.The creative vessel that sets off to explore the universe of life is helmed by director Goh Boon Teck along side with co-directors, Alv

All the World is One’s Stage (2021)

Co-Director

This is a surveillance state.The Organisation reigns supreme over the governance of the known world. Led by Cao Shuang, it controls the basic free will of all men using technology as its weapon—impelling everyone to wear a specially-programmed headset that instructs, controls and eavesdrops. A new law is implemented, forbidding artistic endeavours like music, entertainment, poetry or prose. Acts of disobedience lead to immediate arrest, imprisonment without trial, or worse — execution.Everyone obeys, with t

7 Sages of the Bamboo Grove《竹林七贤》(2020)

The Little Company

Based on the all-time favourite book by Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat has been developed into a magically witty play by Britain's National Theatre. After a successful staging by SRT's The Little Company in 2012 and 2015. The Cat in the Hat is now presented in Mandarin for children aged 2 years old and above.

Sally and her brother get a surprise visit from the Cat in the Hat. With his endless tricks and crazy ideas, he certainly turned the bull rainy afternoon into one amazing adventure. Joined by the twi

The Cat in the Hat (2018)

Associate Director

A literary hermit with unfulfilled ambitions is abused by a corrupt official.

A shady foreign lady seeks to rent a room to run an equally shady massage parlor.

A middle-aged widower hires an alluring tutor to help his dim-witted son, who has yet to graduate after more than 20 years.

In a house with an expired lease,&nbsp;
A profanity-spewing dog
And a racy fox spirit idol&nbsp;
Bear witness to all that transpires

Man or ghost? Fox or demon?
Was it all real or false? Truth or illusion?

Ins

Citizen Dog (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)

Aman, an urban city development official, questions his work of demolishing old historical buildings to make way for new cityscape. Faced with the task of explaining the impending demolition of the city's oldest heritage 'The Surrounding City', Aman experiences the wrath of the city, despair of her dwellers and confronts his personal ambivalence about the price of material gains.


Prism (2017)

Body X Productions

At the invitation of a theatre director, a group of actors and production personnel reunite for the lavish re-staging, in a mansion, of a classic theatrical masterpiece that was last presented more than 10 years ago. At that time, an act of sabotage on stage during the performance resulted in the death of the leading lady. Subsequent police investigations failed to uncover any evidence to identify the mastermind behind the incident, and the case remains unsolved. The reunion brings together everyone who was

Body X - The Rehearsal (2016)

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)

In&nbsp;The Spirits Play, five Japanese spirits -&nbsp;a General, a Man, a Mother, a Girl and a Poet -&nbsp;recall their life experience in the Second World War. They are collectively thrown into turmoil in the process of recollection, and in their wish to “make sense” of the war and its atrocities 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&nbsp;poignantly depicts the agony, guilt and turmoil that occur 

The Spirits Play (2015)

The Theatre Practice

Sixty years ago a secret manual was hidden by a cult under the Southern Arch. Legend says that the Arch, which opens every six decades, is due to open again - and he who retrieves the secret manual shall command the&nbsp;wulin world and reign over the realm of martial arts.&nbsp;

There has been peace in the&nbsp;wulin&nbsp;world since the fall of the cult. But the obsession with invincibility continues to draw warriors into battle. The spiral of blood and death threatens to bury their secrets forever.&nb

Legends of the Southern Arch (2015)

How do we lead a carefree life?

Many spend a lifetime pondering over this, or perhaps attempt to find the answer through the reading of the classic text,&nbsp;Zhuang Zi.&nbsp;Named after the author, Zhuang Zi was an influential Chinese philosopher who advocated self-cultivation, unwavering peace, being in harmony with the natural flow of life, and the pursuit of spiritual freedom.

His ideas have left a profound influence on Chinese culture.&nbsp;Wanderer-Seeker: A Trek Around My Room&nbsp;relooks at t

Wanderer-Seeker: A Trek Around My Room (2013)

Nine Years Theatre

An intense midnight quarrel leads to the murder of a man. Witnesses take the stand as his 16-year-old son is tried for homicide. With all testimonies against the boy, his fate now hangs by a thread as twelve jurors find themselves thick in the throes of rendering the final verdict.

In the stifling heat of the jury room, twelve personalities will clash in a bout of logic and intuition, reason and conscience. Caught between conflicting personal obsessions and prejudices, will the jurors emerge as defenders

Twelve Angry Men (2013)

In the beginning of this year, at the start of the Kuo Pao Kun Festival 2012, Liu Xiaoyi together with 10 young performers devised and created a site-specific work within the creative cocoon of the Stamford Arts Centre. To bring the festival to a close, Liu will now work with 10 veteran performers in&nbsp;11 - Kuo Pao Kun Devised Again.

They will draw inspiration from a wealth of Kuo's scripts, papers, speeches, ideologies and incidents in Kuo's life to create a new devised presentation. Some of the perf

11: Kuo Pao Kun Devised Again (2012)

As we bid farewell to the fictional world of&nbsp;The Silly Little Girl and the Funny Old Tree,&nbsp;we are transported back to the real world of ours. The Funny Old Tree is now a sickly and elderly Father. The family pools their money, food and resources to look after him, yet the infrequent family dinner is often clouded by an indescribable uneasiness. Time passes, and Father's health continues to deteriorate. The family seems to have grown accustomed to this inevitable decline and have moved on with thei

The Impending Storm: The Silly Little Girl and the Funny Old Tree (2012)

This story takes place in&nbsp;Weizhuang,&nbsp;or the village of the future. It is a picturesque village - blue skies, fertile plains and the air (with its lingering scent of the earth) seems to be caressing the face of every fortunate soul.

Ah Q, or rather the remnants of Ah Q lives here. The revolution has ended (or has it?) and it is said that Ah Q was executed. Did he really die?

Some say he has not died. He has changed his appearance and made his fortune in the city!
Some say he cannot die. He h

The Story After Ah Q (2011)

A warrior and his wife are ambushed by a bandit in a bamboo grove. The warrior is slain. His wife, raped. A hundred years later, at the ruins of the Rashomon, a medium calls out to the lost souls. Will the truth be known?


Rashomon (2009)

"Catman" is a quirky and inquisitive play by The Theatre Practice, from Singapore. In a town with no name, there lives a man troubled by strange nightmares: he only dreams of cats. On one fateful dawn, this man chances upon a cat, and the two realize that they can communicate with each other. This strange encounter precipitates a course of events where the man meets odd characters and soon starts loosing his grip on reality, not knowing if all this cat business is a dream or if, in fact, it is real, so real

Catman (2008)

The winter of death numbs a lover’s pain,
The autumn of dreams lies awake in vain,
The summer of life sings its passing song,
And spring comes again… with courage to hope, and go on.

"If there are seasons I would see snow, but not around here..."&nbsp;

After the painful demise of his girlfriend Jing, Ah Le flies to New York to breathe life into his fading dream of writing music. There he meets and befriends Ah Qiang, a fellow dream hunter from Singapore, who helps him settle right in. It is a diffi

If There're Seasons... (2007)

Let me tell you a secret: The gods live next door.
And their descendants are hiding among us.

They could be anywhere - that annoying kid down the street, or even the nerdy geek in class.&nbsp;

People don't pray anymore, so these immortal kids aren't like their parents. They have no superpowers, no special rights, and they worry about tests and exams just like you and me.&nbsp;
Life as an immortal couldn't be more boring.&nbsp;

Then one day, the world blacks out and all hell breaks loose.
Will th

Immortalx (2007)

A mother enjoys a close and playful relationship with her young children.

This intimacy is gradually lost as the children grow up and create their own lives, be it through going abroad for studies, entering the work force or building families of their own.

The use of new languages and new media, coupled with changes in lifestyle and society, widen this gap of communication.&nbsp;

Mama, on the brink of depression, turns to her cat for consolation and company, and begins to join the pet on its nightl

Mama Looking For Her Cat (2006)

Adaptation

Actor

As a young man, Zhou Puyuan had an affair with his family's maid Shiping. Driven out without her elder son Zhou Ping, Shiping jumped into a river with her younger son, but was rescued by Lu Gui. She went on to marry him, and had a daughter - Sifeng.&nbsp;

Years later, Zhou Puyuan, now a man of status, married Fanyi, twenty years his junior, and had a son by her. Fanyi and Zhou Ping share an illicit relationship. But both Zhou Ping and Fanyi's son start to show an interest in the new maid - Sifeng.&nbsp;

Thunderstorm (2006)

In a nameless city, a man, a cat &amp; a mystery...&nbsp;


Catman (2006)

After eight daughters, a son is finally here - and no ordinary son is he.

Shifu, a master of traditional puppetry, makes a prediction before his birth that the boy will be endowed with exceptional intelligence, and will grow up to be a man of great accomplishment. He is therefore named You Wei (meaning "achievement"), and nicknamed Lao Jiu (the ninth-born).

Lao Jiu's parents and his many sisters devote themselves to the care of the gifted child, harbouring ambitions for him to do well in his studies, 

Lao Jiu (2005)

Assistant Director

Ménage à trois?&nbsp;

No thanks, it's rather passé and unexciting really, with only just three...&nbsp;

The Theatre Practice (TTP) is proud to present its Lunar New Year production and invite to a Ménage à 13!

Did you say 13? Relax... it's really not that kinky. Just four people in 13 positions.

Sounds complicated? You bet.

Loud and brassy politician Cai Liu Mu is having a scandalous affair with the delectable Miss Ye, behind the back of his wife, celebrity talkshow host Hua Jie, who noses en

Menage a 13 (2005)

You and me and him are waiting / looking / searching (urgently) for Wu Jun Ru. Your childhood pal, or my soul mate, or his buddy. Don't know how to find, who can help? Can find without photo? Date of missing can't remember, can still find? If you have information, please contact you, me or him. Thank you everyone!&nbsp;


wu jun ru and you and me and him (2004)

Devisor

We must live together
to live on;
We must have forbiddance&nbsp;
to live together;
The question is,
How to live on,
With forbiddance.&nbsp;


Strange Fruit: Forbidden (2004)

A conundrum that we still face: Is the coffin too big? Or is the hole too small? What should we do next?

Director Jim Chim creates a new perspective from light, space, and three performers.


The Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole (2003)

In a world that revolves around the very nature of change, where are our constants?

Landmarks fade.
Time shifts.
And even gods get left behind.

A taxi driver. His very occupation takes him to different places and different people. Constantly moving. It does not matter if he desires to move. He moves anyway.&nbsp;

A young woman. She dreams of a past life that she does not recognise. She searches to save the past from being forgotten. But why she must remember it, she does not know. Or does she nee

Moving Gods (2003)

Two directors of distinctive styles
Creating a night of thrill, suspenses and black humour
Inviting you to walk into the story
With a unique and intimate theatre atmosphere&nbsp;


The Waterloo Murders (2003)

They kicked
They punched
They scratched... to get their way. Do you?

Come watch the animals tickle and tease you with their play.


Animal Farm (2002)

John, a college professor who is about to be conferred tenure has bought a new house and is prepared to embrace a bright future ahead.

Carol is a student in John's class. She is in trepidation because her poor grades may disqualify her for graduation.

One day, John receives Carol in his office so that he can attempt to understand her learning difficulties. Carol frankly confesses that she cannot comprehend his class at all. Both of them engage in a perpetually truncated conversation and finally, John 

Oleanna (2002)

Publicity

A filial Grandson tries to bury his Grandfather in the latter's large and ornate coffin but is met with the bureaucracy of standard regulations. Grandfather's huge coffin will not fit into the standard sized public burial plot of the public cemetery. Grandson and the authorities are involved in a tussle to resolve the dilemma. After weaving through stubborn red tape and mechanical bureaucracy, the Grandson is drawn into a disturbing reflection.&nbsp;


The Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole (2002)

The philosopher returns home with a present for his wife - the grotesquely ugly Aesop. The mistress initially repels Aesop's presence, but gradually enjoys the fables that he tells while the philosopher goes to see his students.&nbsp;

The philosopher returns with an army captain, and in his drunkenness promises the captain that he will give the captain all his possessions if he fails to drink up all the waters of the sea. The behaviour of the two so angered the mistress that she leaves the house.

The 

Aesop Queried (2001)

此剧是以三部份构成，故事如下：
（一）小尼姑色空在仙祧庵内度日如年不忍寂寞。她思恋凡间生活逸下山来。路遇从碧桃寺下山的小和尚本无。
（二）两个青年在小客店过夜。半夜里一个青年去和主人的女儿同睡。主妇又错把一个青年当做自己丈夫。后来那第一个青年又睡上主人的床。险些闹出事来。
（三）一个马夫冒充国王溜进王后的卧房。国王发觉了此事不动声色。他当夜把那马夫侦查出来剪去他一把头发。不料那马夫把别人的头发也同样都剪了。


Si Fan (2001)

Drama Box

news angles... news elements... news headlines...&nbsp;

What exactly is news? Come and find out in the News Theatre!&nbsp;


News Theatre (2000)

Collaborator

Shortly after&nbsp;Invisibility&nbsp;premiered in 1996, I left Singapore to further my studies in Cambridge. The loneliness expressed in my play, if it is merely a product of my imagination, then I must say that the three years at Cambridge confirmed this imagined loneliness.

I did not expect&nbsp;Invisibility&nbsp;to become the first Singaporean play to be performed in Taipei the following year. I also did not foresee that on my return from Cambridge, the first play I learnt that would be staged was&nbs

Invisibility (2000)

Ah Beng, our very own Singaporean neighbourhood young man, grew up in a simple and ordinary life with his lot of carefree friends and humble family.

Peach, a sophisticated uptown girl, comes along one day with the lure of beauty, wealth and a future of glamour and success.

Beng knows the only way to make it in this world is by forsaking his free and easy lifestyle. He embarks on a hunt for dignity. He will be polished; he will be learned; he wants to be bourgeois.

As Beng embraces his new love and 

Mr Beng (2000)

A contemporary play about four characters' search for something elusive in their lives.


Banana Blues (1999)

Ticketing

This bi-lingual musical comedy chronicles the rocky road to love between&nbsp;Mr Beng and Peach. Mr Beng, not your stereotypical Ah Beng, drives a Mercedes,&nbsp;wears Versace clothes and sings Hokkien Karaoke. Peach is a classy uptown girl,&nbsp;temperamental and stubborn.

The play attempts to examine the cultural gaps that all Singaporeans must deal&nbsp;with on a day-to-day basis, trapped between borrowed&nbsp;Eastern and Western cultures,&nbsp;alternating between our ‘mother’ tongue, Singlish and rec

Mr Beng (1999)

Marketing

A monologue, and the first Mandarin play in Singapore to deal with the issue of women and women's bodies in a direct way.


Sour Relationship (1999)

a play about youths of two generations, about waiting, about remembering and forgetting, about forgotten ideals, about oblivion...

year:&nbsp;1963
time:&nbsp;8pm
location:&nbsp;Nanyang Lake
scenario: amidst a student demonstration at Nanyang Lake, Nanyang University
Xiao Ling was waiting for her boyfriend, when a police round-up took place
"...what did you want to tell me? Why must we meet at the lake? I had this premonition... something bad was going to happen."
and she waited for 30 years.

yea

I Remember '99 (1999)

Publicity Manager

Time is Weijin North-South Dynasty which follows the chaotic Three Kingdoms. But the period is no less tumultuous. Place is an obscure inn which lurks in an obscure town that dots the Chinese map. But greed it breeds is certainly not too obscure.

All seem to have come to a standstill - speechless, motionless and even draftless. In proprietress Madam Gold, her sidekicks Lady Willow and Spring Autumn, face a day no different from the rest. But clouds soon barrel - about to take everyone by storm - with the

Leng Geh Mng (1998)

love between an ambitious intellectual &amp; a lovelorn young lady;
love that spans two neighbouring countries;
love linking a complacent farmer &amp; his uncontented wife...
love between a homegrown hen &amp; a specially "airflown" rooster


hazy love 97 (1998)

Stage Manager

There comes a time when marriage becomes inevitable after being together with someone for so long. That was certainly so for him, until he stumbled into a world beyond his imagination and understanding. A world with a different attitude for love. He found peace, before indecision about one's own love preference found him.

They met and fell passionately in love with each other. They were ready to take on the world together, until a baby came along. Between them, they had barred it all. But are they ready 

I Do (1997)

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Leng-Geh-Mng&nbsp;(“Dragon’s Tooth Gate”) is a comedy which spoofs the conventions of pugilistic films set in ancient China. This play was written by playwrights Lee Shyh Jih and Lim Poh Poh and was first staged in 1998.

After nearly two decades, Zelda Tatiana Ng revisits&nbsp;Leng-Geh-Mng&nbsp;in this Vault instalment, alongside some of the original cast members. Under Zelda’s direction and treatment,&nbsp;Leng-Geh-Mng&nbsp;will be retold in the format of a radio play. The actors will read the original 

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