Playwrights Breaking Things

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14 September 2024 | 8:00 - 10:00pm
Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street

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The four writers of Centre 42’s Playwright's Professional Development Residency have spent the past couple of months reading, writing, and thinking about what it means to break things: old habits, the fear of writing, new ground, comfortable forms… even the play itself. How do they break with familiar ways of entering and exploring a play, and what fresh insight into their processes can that unlock? 

Come join us for a reading of some texts followed by a chat with the residents, as they share some of their personal writing discoveries from the first chapter of their two year residency, facilitated by residency leads Jean Tay and Joel Tan.

Bricks: A Fable?
by Choy Chee Yew

I’m building a nice and spectacular wall.
The greatest wall you’ll ever see.

Bricks: A Fable? is a shoutout to those who've been working too damn hard, for reasons unknown, in pursuit of dreams that probably don't make sense.  Taking place in the form of a fable (the playwright assumes), the piece reflects on the irrational life choices we make and asks: What are we doing with our lives, really?

A male-presenting person lying on the floor, clutching at another person standing, shouting and flailing away.

A dramatic scene from Choy Chee Yew's Bricks: A Fable? performed by Izzul Irfan (standing) and Fahim Murshed. View more at: Centre 42 Facebook

My Little Bubble
by Raimi Safari

My Little Bubble is a darkly comedic satire that pokes and claws at the effervescence of sanitized histories—because even progress comes at a price, and it’s certainly no bed of Vanda Miss Joaquims!

A person kneeling and gesturing at another person standing a distance away.

Raimi Safari's My Little Bubble was performed by (from left) Izzul Irfan, Fahim Murshed, and Deonn Yang. View more at: Centre 42 Facebook

Another One-Woman Play
by Amitha Pagolu

Being a woman is hard. Being a woman in a man's world is exhausting. Being a woman in that world trying to tell that story is... well, it's a one-woman play. Another One-Woman Play explores the stories and stereotypes that are familiar, fun and fucking frustrating, and wonders what happens when we finally break away from them.

Three female-presenting persons smiling at a male-presenting person in front of them. He is grinning and holding his ear.

In Amitha Pagolu's Another One-Woman Play, three unnamed female characters, played by (from left) Coco Wang Ling, Deonn Yang and Nurulhuda Hassan, meet Emily Gan, played by Izzul Irfan. View more at: Centre 42 Facebook

REDUX
by Sab Dzulkifli

Usually it’s a bad thing when actors go off-script - but sometimes it’s the only way the story gets told. REDUX is an exploration of repetition, and what can change if we just spend a little more time looking at what’s underneath.

Two female-presenting persons seated on chairs, facing each other and smiling.

Nurulhuda Hassan (left) and Coco Wang Ling played (amongst other roles) two friends discussing matters of the heart in Sab Dzulkifli's REDUX. View more at: Centre 42 Facebook


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Amitha Pagolu
Artist-in-Residence
Choy Chee Yew
Artist-in-Residence
Raimi Safari
Artist-in-Residence
Sabrina Dzulkifli (Sab)
Artist-in-Residence
Izzul Irfan
Ensemble
Deonn Yang
Ensemble