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Staging

Mosquito

The programme starts with interaction with the audience via chatting, sing-along & movement. The skit is about two neighbours getting into an argument when an inspector discovers mosquitoes breeding in a pool of water, who's the culprit?
2016
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Singapore

Workshops

The Orange Playground Lab #4

Created by Artistic Director Alvin Tan, The Orange Playground (TOP) is The Necessary Stage’s newest initiative in creative research and development. We seek to collaborate with artists in an exploratory environment where risks can be freely taken within and with the creative process. TOP will provide opportunities for free, ad-hoc collaborative “jamming” and play with emerging and established talents.

This Lab focused on the exchange of devising methodologies employed by David Glass and The Necessary Stage. The artists centred their explorations around In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park.

 
2016
 

Productions

Manifesto

1963. A young painter is forced to abandon his family and his art when he is embroiled in the tumultuous politics of the era. 

1987. Three writers are detained by the Internal Security Bureau, each making different choices that will leave indelible marks on their lives.

2016. Artists occupy a derelict building in a bid to present their works free from state intervention, but find themselves entangled in market and personal politics instead.

2024. Successors of a theatre company discover that it has a hidden history, and grapple with the reasons behind the rewriting of the past.

Through the lens of events stretching across 70 years, Manifesto, a brand new multilingual collaboration by Drama Box and The Necessary Stage, investigates the role of artists in history and politics:

Can Artists be alternative voices for the marginalized or will they be silenced, subdued and ultimately, erased?
2016
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Singapore
 

Staging

Manifesto

1963. A young painter is forced to abandon his family and his art when he is embroiled in the tumultuous politics of the era. 

1987. Three writers are detained by the Internal Security Bureau, each making different choices that will leave indelible marks on their lives.

2016. Artists occupy a derelict building in a bid to present their works free from state intervention, but find themselves entangled in market and personal politics instead.

2024. Successors of a theatre company discover that it has a hidden history, and grapple with the reasons behind the rewriting of the past.

Through the lens of events stretching across 70 years, Manifesto, a brand new multilingual collaboration by Drama Box and The Necessary Stage, investigates the role of artists in history and politics:

Can Artists be alternative voices for the marginalized or will they be silenced, subdued and ultimately, erased?
2016
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Singapore
 

Festivals

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2016

2016
 

Talks & Interviews

Interculturality and Interdisciplinarity

The iMagination Center is dedicated to imagination, innovation and transdisciplinarity. It aims at training current and future managers to understand today's world in motion while making them actors of the world to build for tomorrow.

 iMagination Week is a seminar dedicated to imagination, creativity and transdisciplinarity.

The objective is to culturally enrich the students by taking them out of their usual work habit and exposing them to experts from various disciplines like life sciences, future studies, art, technology, and sciences, among others. It is also to invite the students to envision the future and develop their creative minds by stimulating their imagination and team work capabilities.
2016
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Singapore
 

Publications

Abuse Suxxx!!! and Other Plays

Featuring five plays by Cultural Medallion recipient Haresh Sharma, created over a span of two decades, Abuse Suxxx!!! and Other Plays is an audacious collection that casts a spotlight on LGBT lives and issues explored in The Necessary Stage’s productions. Yet these plays go beyond being simply out, loud and proud. Rather, they deal with a range of topics—from dealing with death in Top or Bottom, to fissures within the community in Mardi Gras, to examining the limits of liberal ideals in ________ Can Change—and advocate tolerance and acceptance of difference in our midst.

The collection also includes a foreword by Artistic Director Alvin Tan and an introduction by researcher Shawn Chua.
2016
 

Essays/Writings

Le monologue à Singapour, naissance et développement d'une forme dramatique nationale

Published here in La scène mondiale aujourd’hui: des formes en movement.


C’est peu dire qu’affirmer que le théâtre singapourien est mal connu en France. De même que les particularités culturelles et linguistiques de cette cité-état, de superficie dérisoire, mais connue dans le monde entier pour sa réussite économique exceptionnelle.

Le travail de Marc Goldberg contribue à combler ce manque, en faisant découvrir au public francophone une expression théâtrale typiquement singapourienne, et ancrée dans des questions contemporaines.


Project Serial Number: AA201603

Due to copyright restrictions, we are unable to reproduce the full essay/writing online. Please contact the resource owner directly for permissions if reproduction rights do not belong to The Necessary Stage Ltd. Otherwise, kindly contact us for access to the full resource. Do note that archival access and reproduction charges may apply.
2016
 

Productions

Lost

A woman leaves her house looking for something, but she doesn't know what it is.  All she does know is that she needs to quiet her head and still her heart. Family relationships unravel, unspoken truths and painful realizations emerge as a result of this unexpected departure.
2015
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Singapore
 

Productions

Waste

Meet Peter Lee. He talks about rubbish all day (he’s a tour guide) and his life is a mess too. His wife is leaving him and the ghost of his mother haunts him. Welcome to his life.
2015
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Singapore
 

Staging

Rise of the Phoenix

As part of Esplanade’s A Date With Friends, Rise of the Phonex is a doublebill of plays that is 75 minutes doublebill of plays involving themes which will resonate with the senior audiences and families.

The first play, Waste, is directed by Senior Associate Thomas Lim working with local playwright, Faith Ng.

The second play, Lost, is written by our Senior Associate Eleanor Song and directed by Peter Sau.
2015
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Singapore
 

Talks & Interviews

The Necessary Stage

Alvin Tan will share his experiences on the effective use of community theatre. He will discuss ​The Necessary Stage's devising and collaborative methodology, using some plays to illustrate how The Necessary Stage negotiates​ multiple cultural sensibilities, and the need to educate themselves before embarking on the artistic journey of theatre-making.

One of the plays include Off Centre, a play on mental illness and the field research conducted during the process of creating the work. Another play, Completely With/Out Character, is about Paddy Chew, the first Singaporean who came out with his HIV status. Paddy had approached The Necessary Stage to create a play about living with HIV in Singapore, and it took a year to interview and prepare him for the stage.

Other international collaborations such as Mobile and Mobile 2: Flat Cities, involve multiple partners from Japan, Thailand and the Philippines, showcases The Necessary Stage's application of an intercultural approach that has ​its genesis from working in multicultural Singapore for twenty-seven years.
2015
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United States
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