Spring Collection 2025/26: New Plays from Centre 42 opens with Pen Pals International 2025, a showcase featuring play excerpts from writers in the UK and Singapore developed over a six-month online exchange programme. It continues with the end-of-residency presentations from our Playwright’s Professional Development Residency (2024–2026), a culmination of two years of artistic exploration that has produced four strikingly original plays: women across time and space rehearse the question of what it means to belong to themselves; an ensemble of Malay Muslim women confronts the starkest taboos of their bodies with grace and humour; a political family uncovers the legacy of violence lurking in their blood; and a young mother turns to camgirling to remember what it feels like to be wanted.

The programme concludes with a process sharing of Territori by our 2025/26 Writer-in-Residence Nabilah Said, a play she’s further developed over the past year.

Details of these dramatised readings are shared first with members of the Insider’s Club, so register to be part of it and experience these new works as they take shape and follow the stories as they unfold!

Post-show testimonials

I found it to be be very fun and interesting. I think it's rare to see an incubation space for new playwrights without them having the constraints of putting on the full-on finished work or thinking about the constraints of censorship. Especially thinking about the themes of religion, women's sexuality, and race. Those are quite sensitive topics, and I think playwrights just having an informal space to experiment with that and write about it is very interesting. I've been to a few similar kind of incubation works and I think it's great for Singapore's playwriting ecosystem as a whole.
~ Iffah Adawiyah, Spring Collection audience

I really enjoyed myself at Spring Collection. Getting to see playwrights bring their fresh ideas to life gave the audience a lot to think about—especially perspectives we don’t often see on stage. They raised interesting questions about relationships, confinement, and what generational violence can look like, as well as how it impacts us. I’m excited to see what’s in store in the coming years.
~ Shu Yu, Spring Collection audience

I really enjoyed the showings I caught at the Spring Collection, and I saw three of the works. I especially appreciated how the programme gave playwrights the time and space to fully explore what they wanted to create. I think the way everything was structured to focus on the process and not really about audience expectation from the plays was probably very helpful for the playwrights.
~ Cheyenne Phillips, Spring Collection audience

Insider's Club

The Insider’s Club is a dedicated information and invitation channel for Spring Collection 2025/26, created for those interested in following and contributing to the development of the plays and playwrights featured in the season.

As a member, you’ll receive timely updates on the works and writers, along with early notice of presentations and the chance to receive an invitation to attend the private reading showcases and artist presentations. Become an Insider’s Club member and be part of the journey as these new works evolve!