TOOLS returns for a second edition following its successful 2025 run! Led by New York-based playwright Sean Dunnington, this workshop series is designed for playwrights curious about theatricality, the unique magic of theatre that invites audiences to “believe” what they see on stage is true to life even while knowing it is not real.Across five sessions, participants explore theatrical principles such as substitution, stage illusion, the fourth wall, and how space and time shape a play’s structure. Each wor
This March 2026, Centre 42 presents a vibrant line-up of showcases bringing brand-new stories to life.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
As part of Spring Collection 2025/2026: New Plays from Centre 42, the End-of-Residency Presentations mark the culmination of two years of artistic exploration within the Playwrights’ Professional Development Residency (2024–2026). Emerging from this period are four strikingly original plays, developed by the playwrights through sustained research, writing, and experimentation.Amitha Pagolu explores how women across time and space rehearse questions of belonging to themselves; Raimi Safari traces the joys, t
Playwright Nabilah Said has been our Writer-in-Residence for the term 2025-2026, exploring new ways of working and revisiting existing plays to uncover fresh possibilities. Alongside developing her exciting Christmas Island play Territori, she has also created a special audio-play iteration of that play world.As part of Spring Collection 2025/2026: New Plays from Centre 42, this process-sharing session on 28 March invites Nabilah and fellow playwright Joel Tan to discuss the iterative nature of her practice
Start: 28 March 2026
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The Past is PresentIt's been on the forefront of everyone's minds this year - the 60th anniversary of Singapore's independence, marking another decade of growth and evolution for our little island. Befitting the year-long SG60 festivities, many theatre productions this year have explored and celebrated our history from various angles. We've seen shows inspired by key historical events and unique aspects of local culture, as well as restagings and adaptations of canonical theatre classics that keenly demonst
First presented on 14 December 2017 at 42 Waterloo Street, Year in Review is Centre 42's annual round-up of Singapore theatre. This ongoing project sees Centre 42 tracking a year's worth of local theatre productions, and sharing interesting observations, trends, and statistics from the data that we collect. Together with the local theatre community, we reflect on how the theatre scene is growing and evolving over time. As part of Centre 42's 10th Anniversary celebrations in 2024, we created a mini-exhi
Singapore Theatre in 2017 is created by Centre 42 as an attempt to document all local theatre productions in the year 2017 in a timeline, as a visual representation of the vibrancy of the Singapore theatre scene. Singapore Theatre in 2017 was exhibited in the Centre 42 courtyard from 14 December 2017 to 31 January 2018.
Responding to public feedback, the panels have been revised. At this point, they capture 133 dramatic works that were staged in 2017.
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