Centre 42 and Artwave Studio present a collection of audio plays written by four playwrights selected through an open call process. In these imaginative shorts inspired by the oral histories collected for Waterloo Street Stories, a broken-hearted young man befriends a gnomic astrologer; a cat assists a woman on an adultery investigation; a young rebel negotiates the morality of a dystopic revolutionary Singapore; and in the near-future, a robot uncovers a heritage crime through shards of sound…
Enigmatic
16 August 2023 | 7:00pm
Lower Gallery @ Objectifs, Spotify
The Waterloo Street Stories Audio Plays will premiere at Singapore Night Festival 2023 on 16 August 2023, and will be made available online thereafter. Come visit the physical audio booth at the Lower Gallery @ Objectifs and encounter the other Waterloo Street Stories activations at the exhibition.
Arts archives do more than simply document what has passed. They also remind us how society has changed, and how our art worlds have evolved into what they are today. An arts archive can tell us more if we allow it to, and if we work to create archives in ways that are purpose-led and relevant.
Yet arts archives are facing pressing challenges, including access, visibility, long-term storage and costs. There are also questions about ownership, agency, temporalities and representation. In light of th
11 December 2023 | 7:30 - 9:30pm
Five Arts Centre (9th Floor, GMBB, Unit GM-9-15, 2, Jalan Robertson, Bukit Bintang, 50150 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
As part of Singapore Art Week 2024, the Singapore Art Museum and Centre 42 are commissioning and producing a collection of original audio plays written in response to the geographical area of Tanjong Pagar/Pasir Panjang where the museum currently resides.
This is an invitation for two writers to respond through audio drama to this fascinating area, guided by the curatorial prompt “True/South”. Selected writers will need to be available for an intensive script development phase in November 2023, and
16 - 31 October 2023 | 12:00 - 12:00pm
Please note deadline for application is 12.00PM, on 31 October 2023 (Tuesday)
We invite you to join us as we celebrate the launch of (Asian) Dramaturgs' Network: Sensing, Complexity, Tracing and Doing, a publication that brings together a range of ideas, reflections and conversations about dramaturgy and dramaturgs in the region.
The publication draws material from varied events hosted and organised by the Asian Dramaturgs' Network (ADN) since 2016, and includes new writing on what is involved in the work of dramaturgs and dramaturgical thinkers. The contributors inclu
22 August 2023 | 7:00 - 9:00pm
Studio 219 @ Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay
Free Admission!
This is a hybrid event, with in-person interactions at Studio 219, and online livestream via the ADN Facebook Page
Centre 42 presents a collection of new performances devised by its resident artists and invited guests. Titled “there is no future in nostalgia,” after Arthur Yap's iconic poem about the fatigue of urban renewal, we invite artists to consider the tensions between new and old, the technocratic and the civic—and consider how they come to bear on the art of theatre-making.
SIFA X: there is no future in nostalgia comprises: The Vault, with pieces drawn from practitioners' memories of theatre in&nb
20 - 28 May 2023 | 3:00 - 10:00pm
Black Box @ 42 Waterloo Street
Do note that the Black Box venue is located on Level 2, and is only accessible by stairs.
Responding to the rich layers of ambivalence and irony in Arthur Yap's poem "there is no future in nostalgia," the four residents of Centre 42's Playwright's Professional Development Residency present dramatized readings of new short plays that reflect on the tensions between technocratic and civic visions of life in Singapore.
These four new short plays are presented as double-bill performances over two weekends:
Studio A
A double-bill of works by Ahmad Musta'ain and Danial Matin
Sa
20 May 2023 | 3:00 - 4:30pm
21 May 2023 | 8:00 - 9:30pm
27 May 2023 | 3:00 - 4:30pm
28 May 2023 | 8:00 - 9:30pm
Black Box @ 42 Waterloo Street
Rating: Advisory 16 (Some Mature Content and Coarse Language)
Do note that the Black Box venue is located on Level 2, and is only accessible by stairs.
Headline Acts is a fun and informal reading series open to writers of all experience levels wishing to showcase plays or scenes. The only rule is, each work is a short (10-15 minutes) dramatic pieces that respond to recent headlines.
For this special SIFA edition of Headline Acts, part of Centre 42's group show SIFA-X: there is no future in nostalgia, we are turning our attention to that special dynamic between new and old, past and future. And so we're asking all participants to respond to a headli
27 May 2023 | 8:00 - 9:30pm
28 May 2023 | 3:00 - 4:30pm
Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street
Rating: Advisory 16 (Some Mature Content and Coarse Language)
Do note that the Black Box venue is located on Level 2, and is only accessible by stairs.
Book your tickets to either or both Acts (Registration opens on 31 March 2023):
Admission: Give-What-You-Can (via Eventbrite upon registering for a ticket)
All proceeds collected for this event will be evenly distributed to participating writers.
The Big Book Launch celebrates the release of accomplished Singaporean playwright, Zulfadli Rashid's brand new book, Kolong.
Join us for the book launch of our Writer-in-Residence, Zulfadli Rashid’s new anthology of plays! As a renowned playwright, Zulfadli Rashid has earned a reputation for creating compelling and thought-provoking works that challenge the status quo. Kolong gathers five of his plays - some whimsical, some heartbreaking - Hero (2009), Kancil (2015),&nb