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Talks & Interviews

Playwriting in Singapore

The Necessary Stage hosts a series of forums with the aim of discussing issues pertinent to artists and their craft. These forums were recorded and documented in 9 Lives: 10 Years of Singapore Theatre.

Over the past five years, there have been more opportunities for playwrights in Singapore - with playwriting workshops, writer's laboratories, commissions and playwriting competitions. However, with the growth of commercial theatre, film and tele-drama in Singapore there is a perception that playwriting is facing a certain crisis.

Panelists offered their personal responses to the following:
- What drives a playwright to write
- Can playwrights exist by just writing for the theatre
- Will film, TV and growing commercialisation lead to the demise of the Singapore playwright

The video recording is available upon request.
1996
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Singapore
 

Talks & Interviews

Patriachy in Singapore Theatre

The Necessary Stage hosts a series of forums with the aim of discussing issues pertinent to artists and their craft. These forums were recorded and documented in 9 Lives: 10 Years of Singapore Theatre.

Patriarchy, where men take the lead, set the direction and assign roles, can exist because of tradition, gender discrimination, consensus and socialisation.

The transcription of this forum was not published in 9 Lives: 10 Years of Singapore Theatre.

The video recording is available upon request.
1996
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Singapore
 

Staging

Portraits II

1994
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Singapore
 

Productions

Precinct

Precinct is a semi-absurdist play about two people trying to cope with each other’s obsessive behaviours and also their own. Mark is obsessed with the idea of having a baby to call his own, because of the memories he has of his still-born sister whom he remembers as being buried “in a grave four feet wide, six feet deep”. Ellen is incessantly worried that a nuclear holocaust will soon happen, and wipe out all forms of life on earth. Their heightened fear of apocalypse leads them to question their identity, and hence their purpose of existence. 
1994
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Singapore
 

Staging

Photographs

Photographs is about nostalgia and déjà vu, feelings which beckon from the past, feelings which are often comforting, but which can also hinder and obscure struggle with the present. This play is about the past—how people deal with it, come to terms with it and move on from it—or how they don't.

Three actors who don't know each other audition for and got parts in a play about putting the past behind. Gradually, they find their past catching up with them and affecting the way they relate to each other, sometimes despite efforts to the contrary. The play questions the role of the past—how much we should learn from it, how much we should use it to cope with the present and how we should move away from it.
1994
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Singapore
 

Productions

Photographs

Photographs is about nostalgia and déjà vu, feelings which beckon from the past, feelings which are often comforting, but which can also hinder and obscure struggle with the present. This play is about the past—how people deal with it, come to terms with it and move on from it—or how they don't.

Three actors who don't know each other audition for and got parts in a play about putting the past behind. Gradually, they find their past catching up with them and affecting the way they relate to each other, sometimes despite efforts to the contrary. The play questions the role of the past—how much we should learn from it, how much we should use it to cope with the present and how we should move away from it.
1994
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Singapore
 

Staging

Portraits

1993
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Singapore
 

Staging

Pte. Ltd.

Do you live to work? Or work to live?

Pte. Ltd. questions our relationship with work, what it means to us,for us, and simply what it means…because sometimes we forget to stop and smell the roses.
1991
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Singapore

Staging

Pte. Ltd.

Do you live to work? Or work to live?

Pte. Ltd. questions our relationship with work, what it means to us,for us, and simply what it means…because sometimes we forget to stop and smell the roses.
1991
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Singapore
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