Pen Pals International is a new initiative in a partnership between Box of Tricks in the UK and Centre 42 in Singapore.We will be matching 6 UK playwrights with 6 Singaporean playwrights to for an international playwriting exchange. Writers will work together over a 6-month period from January until June 2025. Each pair will send each other work-in-progress and maintain regular contact through online meetings.  Box of Tricks and Centre 42 will introduce Pen Pals online, discussing their ideas at t
7 October 2024 - 31 August 2025 | 12:00 - 12:00am
Applications have closed as of 5.00PM UTC on 31 October 2024 (Thursday).
DRAMATURGS & is a capsule series of roundtable conversations centering the work of and relationship between dramaturgs and their artistic collaborators. Dramaturgical thinking and application is integral in the work of all artists, yet a dramaturg’s role affords a dedicated lens that can expand and challenge artistic decisions. In cosy and candid sessions, we aim to unpack the relational, intricate and often invisible work of dramaturgs in creative processes and within artistic teams. The fourth in
21 April 2025 | 8:00 - 9:30pm
Online via Zoom
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Three emerging dramaturgs step into the spotlight to share their learnings from the Dramaturgs in Practice Training Programme 2024. Over the course of 2 practice attachments, dramaturgs-in-training Shona Benson, Shridar Mani and Sonia Kwek have navigated dramaturgical conversations with different kinds of artists, across different genres and at different phases of the creative process. Along the way, they have put both old and new ideas to the test and re-defined what being a dramaturg means to them.&n
The four residents of Centre 42's Playwrights's Professional Development Residency have spent the past six months reading and thinking about the writer's context in society, observing how playwrights offer up perspectives from the hairline cracks of discourse — disrupting doctrine, subverting the historical record, objecting to the status quo. How can writers metabolise these energies for drama? Join us for this artists' sharing as our playwrights present works in progress and new dramatic experiments, brin
Jo ends her term as Writer-in-Residence with an Adam-Khoo style presentation advocating the importance of rewriting and restaging Singapore scripts in search of the next classic. Expect to see a new-and-improved rework-in-progress of her previously-staged script, Happy Place, followed by a diatribe about seizing the means of production (as in producing a play) in a system where existing resources for restagings may seem scarce.
Sound Plot is Centre 42’s audio plays series, each edition drawing on a certain geographic area in Singapore. This edition, produced in collaboration with the NTU Museum, zooms in on Jurong West and its surrounding area, where the university is located. Two plays were selected through our Open Call, guided by the curatorial prompt "Ulu", and one play was selected from submissions by participants of our Audio Drama Writing Workshop.The audio plays will be launched from 27 January 2025 onwards. Stay tuned for
What makes a play queer? Must it feature primarily queer characters? Does it necessarily centre on timeless queer narratives— coming out, oppression, political change? Or is it enough that the play, like all queers, tries to find a new way of seeing and being in the world— a play that builds theatrical worlds that resist orthodoxy, authority, and received binaries? Join visiting Writer in Residence Sean Dunnington in conversation with playwright Joel Tan as they pry open these questions, featuring readings