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Workshops

A Series of Drama Workshops and Talks

A Series of Drama Workshops and Talks by Russell Boyce, presented by B.A.T in collaboration with The Necessary Stage and The British Council. The following workshops were conducted:


Workshop for Students - Characterisation: A Series of Drama Workshops and Talks
Workshop for Students - Acting in Student Productions: A Series of Drama Workshops and Talks
From The Outside In: A Series of Drama Workshops and Talks
Basic Improvisation I & II: A Series of Drama Workshops and Talks
Advanced Improvisation I & II: A Series of Drama Workshops and Talks

1992
 

Productions

A Shadow's Mask

The society consists of mask makers. Everyone makes their own masks, be it for friends, for family, for work, for school…This performance will showcase the collaboration between the choreographer Lee Yong Wen and the puppeteer Tan Beng Tian. It will use movement, music and masks to explore their inner souls, souls lost in a labyrinth of masks.
2001
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Singapore

Staging

A Simple Thing

The American author Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946) moved to France in 1902 and lived there for the next 42 years. During that she  wrote almost every day, in pencil, in notebooks of the kind used by French schoolchildren. Over the years, as she filled the notebooks up with her poems, plays, novels and essays, she lined them up on a long shelf. At the time of her death, only a small portion of these accumulated writings had been published.

A Simple Thing takes pages from these notebooks and juxtaposes them to Thomas Leabhart's body writing-corporeal mime, based on the technique developed by Etienne Decroux in Paris during many of the same year Stein was writing there. The cubist spirit informs Decroux's work as well as Stein's.

A story line as such does not exist here (as it usually does not in Stein's writing). Whereas the verbal text (which plays with repetition) speaks of memory, resemblance, confusion and loss, the movement text explores surprise, imbalance, sudden shifts of weight and emphasis, and stages of consciousness, all of which have metaphorical potential. The movement text does not seek to mirror the verbal text, yet the structural problems they explore are similar.
1997
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Singapore
 

Productions

A Simple Thing

An exploration of Malays and Chinese in Singapore past and present, the play is divided into six episodes:

Sang Nila Utama has a vision for tomorrow.

People run amok.

SitiMat tells the story of the nangka.

Three sisters try to resist rape.

Father knows best.

Virgins bathe at the well.

Using music, movement, humour and strong visuals, Pillars weaves yesterday's folklore and fables with today's images and metaphors, and brings you into a quirky new world which is also your home.
1997
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Singapore
 

Publications

A Theory of Time

It's a play which explores time, trains and the theory of relativity. But mostly, it tracks the one year that Elaine, a 37-year old school teacher, has taken off work, so as to care for her elderly father.

A Theory of Time by Jean Tay was created as part of The Necessary Stage's Playwright's Cove.

It's first public reading was presented at the Asian Civilisation Museum on 9th February 2002.
2002
 

Productions

A Theory of Time

It's a play which explores time, trains and the theory of relativity. But mostly, it track the one year that Elaine, a 37-year old school teacher, has taken off work, so as to care for her elderly father.
2002
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Singapore
 

Productions

A Thing in the Pool

Glaringly over-the-top and fluidly surreal. There is a "thing" at the bottom of the pool, or isn't there? A man, obviously obsessive-compulsive and occasionally paranoid, loses sleep over it. A woman, apparently unperturbed, challenges him about that "thing" in the pool. Somehow, a taxi-driver is involved. Go figure.
1999
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Singapore
 

Productions

A Vespula Vulgaris and its sting

Upon studying the types and lifes of wasps, I have discovered the likes of social wasps, paper wasps and yellow jackets otherwise known as Vespula Vulgaris. It is an exploration of both opinions of silence and opinios that intend to injure or damage. A preformative structure will be installed to create an environment in which the complex relationships between the mass media and public opinion will be juxtaposed and challenged.
2001
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Singapore
 

Productions

A.S.A.P.

A.S.A.P is a live improvisation piece. The focus is on the spontaneous interaction of bodies in space, as well as reactions to the stimuli of the immediate environment. The performers are exploring texture, speed, rhythm and movement narratives instead of theatrical norms such as character, meaning, plot and issue.

First presented at [names changed to protect the innocent] Feb '99 instalment.
1999
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Singapore
 

Productions

A.S.A.P.

[names changed to protect the innocent] is a platform for experimental, exploratory and original work which aims to provide a space for artists, established or otherwise, to come together in the spirit of experimentation for dialogue amongst artists and between artists and audience.
1999
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Singapore
 

Staging

Abuse Suxxx!!!

It's a jungle out there. And it's raining shit. So do something, dammit! Say it: I have the power. To fight. To kill. To love. To be who I wanna be. they can try, but they can't take that away from you. they can't touch you. Abuse Suxxx!!! But you're a survivor and you're gonna make it.
2001
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Singapore
 

Productions

Abuse Suxxx!!!

It's a jungle out there. And it's raining shit. So do something, dammit! Say it: I have the power. To fight. To kill. To love. To be who I wanna be. they can try, but they can't take that away from you. they can't touch you. Abuse Suxxx!!! But you're a survivor and you're gonna make it.
2001
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Singapore
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