The Finger Players

A celestial stone reincarnates as the scion of a wealthy aristocratic family. Baoyu, born with a jade in his mouth, is raised as the heir and Precious Jade of the clan. The heir takes centre stage in a love rivalry between his two cousins – Daiyu and Baochai, amidst the backdrop of the family’s slow financial collapse.Presented by The Finger Players,&nbsp;Dream of the Red Chamber&nbsp;is award-winning playwright and director Chong Tze Chien’s reinterpretation of one of the four greatest Chinese classical li

Dream of the Red Chamber (2024)

Key Visual Photographer

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)

Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

Hijinks and humour abound in&nbsp;Mari Kita Main Wayang (Let’s Stage A Play)!

This play-within-a-play follows a group of Peranakans who come together to stage&nbsp;Empat Bini, an ambitious script that is set within the illustrious walls of a royal court. However, all is not as it seems—as the play unfolds, a gripping narrative of power gone awry among the players comes to light.

Presented in&nbsp;Baba Melayu&nbsp;and peppered with familiar expressions,&nbsp;Mari Kita Main Wayang&nbsp;is a love letter 

Mari Kita Main Wayang (2023)

Publicity Photographer

Three incredible acrobats dream up a stunning creation that insists on co-creating with them. A mannequin faces public flogging whenever the model and seamstress fail to measure up to a cat’s superior fabric scratching skills. An eight-legged octopus dance coach receives an unexpected lesson from a four-legged cat and dog who combine their limbs in a surprising way, creating a sum greater than its parts.&nbsp;Step into ONE-TWO-SIX Cairnhill Arts Centre and embark on a journey through three whimsical and sel

Puppet Origin Stories @ ONE-TWO-SIX: Persona Paradox (2023)

Photography Archival

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)

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)

Rainshadow Studios

Like all expecting parents, Kurt and Martha want the best for their baby. But they are working class and a baby is costly. What happens when an innocent side job spirals out of control? How far will the new parents go to create their ideal home?Directed by Yale-NUS Lecturer of Theatre Jonathan Vandenberg (Classic Stage Company's Oresteia, Mabou Mines' The Kingdom) and featuring Ethel Yap (Four Horse Road, Urinetown: The Musical) and Te Hao Boon (Cost of Caring, The Hawker), with design by Elizabeth Mak (pro

The Nest (2022)

Photographer

Wild Rice

Two romeos bend the truth to spice up their love lives. Jack has invented a brother, Ernest, whom he uses to escape his dull country life and to woo the ravishing Gwendolyn. His best friend, Algernon, also decides to take the name ‘Ernest’ to cosy up to Jack’s beautiful ward, Cecily, in the country. But things spin hilariously out of control when their deceptions are discovered, threatening to spoil their romantic pursuits.

Oscar Wilde’s&nbsp;The Importance of Being Earnest&nbsp;is one of the world’s mos

The Importance of Being Earnest (2020)

Cast

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)

Pangdemonium

Winner of five Tony Awards, Peter and the Starcatcher is a hilarious, hair-raising, and heartwarming prequel to the Peter Pan legend, and a celebration of the innocence, imagination and resilience of the Child.

Singapore, 1885: we join Molly (a precocious young Starcatcher-in-training) and three orphan boys on a secret mission – a perilous voyage across seas infested by treacherous pirates, fearsome savages, and dubious mermaids, to a faraway island ruled by an evil king. All for the sake of the mystical

Peter and the Starcatcher (2018)

TheatreWorks’ ‘Because I Love You’&nbsp;season opens by exploring the form and substance of relationships in&nbsp;13.13.13, digging into the tenuous bonds that bind, and betrayals that break. William and Samantha live a good life. They have the perfect arrangement – William doesn’t want marriage, and Sam doesn’t want kids. Lynn, William’s ex-girlfriend and now oldest best friend, desperately wants to marry but cannot. Lynn also wants children. William does what he believes is reasonable to help his oldest f

13.13.13 (2018)

Tracie Pang

Adrian Pang

Stephanie Street

The year is 2021. Climate change is wreaking havoc across the&nbsp;globe, “Brexit” is causing chaos all over Europe and Donald&nbsp;Trump has been re-elected United States president for a second&nbsp;term. In the wake of escalating wars in the Middle East, famine in&nbsp;West Africa and relentless terrorist attacks by radical extremists,&nbsp;the United Kingdom - and many nations around the world - has&nbsp;enforced a ban on all&nbsp;immigration.

With the coastline around him and life as he knows it crum

Dragonflies (2017)

Arts House Limited

Sonny Liew

Edith Podesta

Hot on the heels of the New York Times bestseller and Singapore&nbsp;Literature Prize-winning The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye,&nbsp;cartoonist Sonny Liew creates an all-new graphic novel for the&nbsp;stage. Using the superhero genre as a springboard to tell a story&nbsp;about ageing and mortality, the book for the stage looks to&nbsp;examine the limits of even superhuman abilities when confronted&nbsp;with the complex issues of greying societies, or when faced with&nbsp;the pain of losing loved ones to th

Becoming Graphic (2017)

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)

Sight Lines Productions

A plane crashes on a deserted island.

The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. By day, it is a tropical paradise of&nbsp;sun and sea; but each night, their dreams are inhabited by a terrifying beast.&nbsp;Thrust into a teenage version of Hunger Games meets Survivor, the boys’ little&nbsp;island adventure quickly become a struggle for survival as superstition and immorality sees the community slide into a darkly sinister world.&nbsp;

It’s not too long before this well-behaved group develops a penc

Lord of the Flies (2016)

Two dashing romeos bend the truth to spice up their lives. Jack has invented a brother, Ernest, whom he uses to escape his dull country life and to woo the ravishing Gwendolyn. His best friend Algernon also decides to take the name ‘Ernest’ to cosy up to Jack’s beautiful ward, Cecily, in the country. However, things get messy when their deceptions are discovered, threatening to spoil their romantic pursuits.

Oscar Wilde’s&nbsp;The Importance of Being Earnest&nbsp;is one of the world’s most enduringly pop

The Importance of Being Earnest (2015)

Billy has always felt like an outsider within his own family. Billy, you see, is deaf. He is also the only one who actually listens in his hopelessly dysfunctional, hilariously eccentric, fiercely argumentative tribe of bohemian weirdos.

Dad is an intellectual who behaves like a first-class idiot;

Mum is a mystery novelist who can’t solve the mystery of her own family;

Sis is a world-class opera singer in a downtown pub;

Big Brother is writing a thesis on speech while hearing voices inside his h

Tribes (2015)

Graphic Designer

Written by Tan Tarn How, The Lady of Soul and Her Ultimate “S” Machine (first staged in 1993) is a political satire about a government which decides that a nation needs more “soul” to make it a more vibrant place. A civil servant, Derek, decides to find the best way to achieve this is by calling for a “soul search”. Three candidates—a mama- san, a left-wing radical and a representative from the arts—present their ideas on what “soul” is. After hearing them, Derek undergoes an internal debate where he must d

The Lady of Soul and Her Ultimate “S” Machine (2015)

Performer

Pulitzer Prize Winner Annie Baker has crafted a hilarious comedy that presents a gleefully voyeuristic peek at actors’ behind-the-scenes shenanigans, revealing their weird and wonderful idiocies and idiosyncrasies.

Vivacious Theresa, shy Shultz, angsty Lauren, and gregarious James: four imperfect strangers join an Acting Class run by “Earth Mother” Marty, each one hoping to start the year with a brand new chapter in their lives. But it soon becomes clear that this is much more than an Acting Class, as th

Circle Mirror Transformation (2015)

Teater Ekamatra

In Kesamet, orgone is food, water, energy. Orgone is life. Dan works in the factory, producing orgone from his body day after day. At night, he dreams of a woman whose face he cannot see. Someone he believes is from a past he does not remember. His only friend, Talulah tells him it's for his own good. Kesamet survives when everyone plays their role. But is surviving enough?


Paradise (2014)

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)

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)

Two dashing Romeos bend the truth to spice up their lives. Jack has invented a brother, Ernest, whom he uses to escape his dull country life and to woo the ravishing Gwendolyn. His best friend Algernon also decides to take the name ‘Ernest’ to cosy up to Jack’s beautiful ward, Cecily, in the country.

When the four young lovers finally come together, we have two men who claim to be Ernest but aren't, and two women who are in love with men named Ernest but aren't.

Just who is in love with whom? Will Lad

The Importance of Being Earnest (2014)

The Rise &amp; Fall of Little Voice&nbsp;tells the story of a shy, reclusive girl named LV – or Little Voice (played by the extraordinary Mina Kaye) – and her larger than life, boozy, out-of-control mother Mari (Denise Tan). Desperately missing her dead father, LV spends her time locked in her bedroom listening to his old record collection and perfecting astonishing impersonations of famous divas including Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe, Barbra Streisand, Edith Piaf, and Judy Garland…

When Mari starts da

The Rise & Fall of Little Voice (2014)

Brian Gothong Tan

Adrian Tan

In a world where everything can be bought or $old how much are you willing to $pend? Buy now pay later, but at what price? At what point doe$ the con$umer become the con$umed? Candid, witty, provocative, and acce$$ible, CON$UMED examine$ the $erious, far-reaching i$$ue of con$umerism for a wider audience.&nbsp;Award winning theatre director Edith Podesta, Young Artist Award recipient Brian Gothong Tan, Life! Theatre Award nominee Adrian Tan, together with a team of professional actors and NUS talents, we br

CON$UMED (2014)

Cow. Slob. Pig. How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love?

Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for ‘Outstanding Off-Broadway Play’, and nominated for the Olivier Award for ‘Best New Comedy’, FAT PIG tells the story of Tom (Gavin Yap), a handsome, young professional who meets a sweet-natured, sexy, funny and intelligent girl named Helen (Frances Lee) – who just happens to be “plus-sized”. Tom finds himself irresistibly attracted to Helen and her refreshin

Fat Pig (2014)

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)

NEXT TO NORMAL tells the extraordinary roller-coaster story of Diana (West End star Sally Ann Triplett - Chicago, Cabaret, Mama Mia! Among dozens of other shows), a woman battling bipolar disorder coupled with schizophrenic hallucinations; and her hapless husband Dan (Adrian Pang - Pangdemonium’s Rabbit Hole, Swimming With Sharks), who fights to keep her mind stable and his family intact. Things get even more complicated when Diana defies her Doctor (Juan Jackson - Cats, The Rocky Horror Show), and resorts 

Next to Normal (2013)

Everything but the Brain tells the story of Elaine, a Physics teacher who hatches a plan to turn back time and save her stroke-afflicted father from further deterioration. Along the way, she is egged on by a chorus of three bears, occasionally distracted by a dashing young surgeon and haunted by a particularly memorable train ride to Malacca…

Don’t miss this poignant, comic play, which premiered in 2005 to critical acclaim. After two sold-out runs, it went on to win “Best Original Script” and “Best Actor

Everything But The Brain (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)

In-House Designer

Two dashing romeos bend the truth to spice up their lives. Jack has invented a brother, Ernest, whom he uses to escape his dull country life and to woo the ravishing Gwendolyn. His best friend Algernon also decides to take the name ‘Ernest’ to cosy up to Jack’s beautiful ward, Cecily, in the country. When the four young lovers finally come together, we have two men who claim to be Ernest but aren't, and two women who are in love with men named Ernest but aren't.

Just who is in love with whom?

Will Lad

The Importance of Being Earnest (2013)

Derrick Chew

EDGES&nbsp;is an exciting new contemporary musical about four burgeoning young adults at the edge of their lives - confronting emotions, escaping expectations, and deciphering complicated relationships. Beyond its youthful appeal, the show is a compelling and emotive ride that gets audiences of all ages reflecting on their younger years - where mistakes define who you become, love seemed to last forever and reality hadn't hit yet.

Full of heart, humanity and humour,&nbsp;EDGES'&nbsp;pop-culture reference

EDGES (2013)

Skinned Knee Productions

To really spice up your meal (literally, as this performance is paired with dinner), catch this dark comedy by Skinned Knee Productions about a man who leaves his long-suffering wife for a newer model after 20 years of marriage – with gruesome consequences.


The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband (2013)

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)

After sweeping the Life! Theatre Awards 2006 with her hit play,&nbsp;Everything but the Brain,&nbsp;award-winning playwright Jean Tay takes on a subject close to every true-blue Singaporean's heart – land.

On this tiny red dot, where sand is as precious as gold, homes exchange hands like commodities. Historical icons are constantly being bulldozed in the name of progress. Week after week, we see our forgotten icons of yesteryear –&nbsp;Rochor Centre,&nbsp;Bukit Brown Cemetery&nbsp;and the&nbsp;KTM Railwa

Boom (2012)

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Trainstopping (2012)

A motley crew of men come together to laugh about life, argue about women, and fight about everything else. Their comic high-jinks lead to a game of poker… except that these men, poker is never just a game: for Stephen [Adrian Pang] poker is an obsessive power trip; for Sweeney [Daniel Jenkins] it’s a distraction from his domestic dilemmas; for Frankie [Keagan Kang] it’s an extension of his manhood; for Carl [Julian Low] it’s a hopeless addiction; for Mugsy [Andy Tear] it’s an escape from his loser’s life; 

Dealer's Choice (2011) 

Toy Factory Productions Limited

Lawyer Hesther Saloman calls on her friend and colleague, Psychiatrist Martin Dysart. She brings him the most challenging case of his career: a seventeen year old boy named Alan Strang. Alan has a mundane job and two parents who love him. He is, by all accounts, normal. Until one night, on a date with alluring young stablehand Jill, Alan commits an act of unthinkable violence against the thing he loves most. As the community struggles to pick up the pieces, Dysart is left to answer the question:&nbsp;Why di

Equus (2011)

Anyone who has loved with an obsession, anyone who has experienced jealousy and betrayal, and anyone who understands that passion can manifest itself in pure ecstasy or the deepest despair, will relish this play's deliciously dark humour, and be moved by its uncompromising honesty, Closer&nbsp;is a bold and unflinching examination of everything that makes us all so fragile, so flawed, and so human.


Closer (2011)

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)

We Colour People

Think about this.

You're old.

You're about to kick the bucket.

You own a 3 room flat in Toa Payoh.

You have 3 ungrateful children, of which, one can't stop thinking about her inheritance, the other can't remember who you are and the last doesn't even want to acknowledge you as her own. The only one you can trust can't even stand up on her own two feet. What do you do? Washing dirty linen in public couldn't get any dirtier than this. Base on a true story, but of course with drama sikit, Awake wit

Awake with Nenek (2010)

ACTION Theatre

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Shocks & SHIOK! (2009)

Oscar Wilde’s&nbsp;THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST&nbsp;is one of the world’s most enduringly popular comedies, boasting some of the funniest lines in the English language.

In WILD RICE’s exciting production, celebrated theatre and film director Glen Goei puts a provocative spin on this comic masterpiece by casting an all-male ensemble in bespoke suits – revealing new insights into Wilde’s comedy about courtship, hidden identities, and the foibles of high society.

With a sensational international cast

The Importance of Being Earnest (2009)

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)

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Dark Room&nbsp;follows the lives of men housed together in a five-by-five-metre cell, 23 hours a day, every day, until their release. This original work, based on true accounts, explores the codes and regulations of society “on the inside”. It charts the prison experience from pre-trial to imprisonment, and the reintegration into society as “returning citizens”.

If “prison is the punishment that keeps on taking”,&nbsp;Dark Room&nbsp;gives voice to the incarcerated by staging their stories and making thei

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