Productions
Sanctuary (Singapore)
Sub-Title
A collaboration between The Necessary Stage & HANCHU-YUEI
SYNOPSIS
A terminally ill woman hires a digital legacy company to record video greetings for her children to watch long after she is gone.
In our technologically accelerating world, this scenario of social media legacy planning has become a reality. In the digitised future, memories can be made immortal. Our data can be turned into bots. Protests can happen from the comforts of our own homes. Humans, androids and robots are all adrift in cyberspace.
The Necessary Stage continues its 30th anniversary season with another provocative work—Sanctuary, an international collaboration with HANCHU-YUEI, one of Tokyo’s most innovative theatre companies.
It presents assorted characters—from social media influencers to virtual personal assistants—through the lens of hot-button issues of the day such as surveillance, alternative fact and post-life.
Sanctuary investigates the fragility of the human condition, at a time when technology is eroding our humanity. We are the data, but the data is never ours.
PRODUCTION CREDITS
- Co-Director
- Suguru Yamamoto
Alvin Tan - Co-Playwright
- Suguru Yamamoto
Haresh Sharma - Dramaturg
- Ken Takiguchi
- Translators
- Ken Takiguchi
Christopher Gregory - Interpreter
- Nao Suzuki
Yu Tamura - Sound Artist
- Bani Haykal
- Art Director
- Kazuki Takakura
- Lighting Designer
- Yo Shao Ann
- Set Designer
- Vincent Lim
- Cast
- Audrey Luo
Ellison Tan
Fumi Kumakawa
Mikie Tanaka
Kan Fukuhara
Sachiro Nomoto
Yazid Jalil - Production Stage Manager
- Azyyati Alias
- Assistant Stage Manager
- Brenda Lum Jia Yi
- Surtitle Operator
- Shawn Chua
- Lighting Operator
- Fiona Lim
- Wardrobe Coordinator
- Yeo Fu Bi
- Make-Up Artist
- Molizah Mohd Mohter
- Production Intern
- Megan Joann Tan
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