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Led by Resident Playwright and Cultural Medallion recipient Haresh Sharma, DAP 2023 is part of TNS’ devising platform and saw 20 theatre-makers undergo an intensive training programme over a six-month period to take a deep dive into the company’s unique devising methodology, as well as undergo dramaturgy workshops and lecture sessions with established theatre makers. This edition of the programme featured works that delved into a diverse array of themes: from faith, to mortality, to neurodivergence. The showcase presented five different devised works-in-progress created by the participants—one at each performance—at Practice Space, The Theatre Practice.•••Participants:Afiszan AmatAmitha PagoluBenedict LimBenjamin LyeEthel YapEuginia TanFlora YeoGoh Ming SiuHeng Jia MinJayden LimJohanna VanMel PehMiriam CheongMitchell FangNicole ShaanDaya AJHoe Wei QiPeh Jun KaiWeiqi ChuahWong Jin Yi•••Works Presented:Like a Whisperby: Amitha Pagolu, Benjamin Lye, Wong Jin Yi, Flora Yeo, Nicole Shaan and Mitchell FangThe Trouble with Paradiseby: Mitchell Fang, Miriam Cheong, Heng Jia Min, Peh Jun Kai and Benjamin LyeBrain Things (or, Is There Something Wrong With Me?)by: Weiqi Chuah, Nicole Shaan, Goh Ming Siu, Mel Peh, Flora Yeo, Miriam Cheong and Benedict LimThe Criticby: Euginia Tan, Afiszan Amat, Ethel Yap, Benedict Lim, Hoe Wei Qi, Johanna Van, Mel Peh, Wong Jin YiDivine’s Intervention  |《神之悲伤》| Ditangani Dukacita Ilahiby: Jayden Lim Jun De, Heng Jia Min, Weiqi Chuah, Afiszan Amat and Daya AJ

Part of TNS' Devising Platform, Devising With Actors and Playwrights comprised a five-month training programme for 20 participants led by Haresh Sharma that developed the capabilities of emerging playwrights, actors and dramaturgs to apply the company’s devising methodology in their theatre-making. The programme, which runs from April to September 2021, also featured workshops and clinics with Alvin Tan and other guest speakers, and culminated in a series of presentations of works-in-progress by the participants.

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Participants:

A Yagnya

Auderia Tan Yan Ying

Deonn Yang

Fadhil Daud

Te Hao Boon

Irny Irdina

Isaac Lim

Ivan Choong

Jaisilan Sathiasilan

Jean Tay

Jeramy Lim

Kimberly Arriola

Lareina Tham

Nicholas Bloodworth

Rajkumar Thiagaras

Ryan Ang 

Sabrina Sng

Shien Hian Lim

Sim Yan Ying "YY"

Tysha Khan

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Works Presented:

Cost of Caring

by Sim Yan Ying "YY", Jean Tay, Lareina Tham, Lim Shien Hian, Te Hao Boon and Nicholas Bloodworth

A Perfect Day

by Ivan Choong, Fadhil Daud and Lim Shien Hian

Fractures

by Kimberly Arriola, Deonn Yang and Sabrina Sng

Never The Bride

by Rajkumar Thiagaras, Ryan Ang and Fadhil Daud

Misaligned Stars (错位的星星)

by A Yagnya, Auderia Tan Yan Ying and Isaac Lim

Dapat apa? (Get what?)

by Jeramy Lim, Irny Irdina and Tysha Khan

Call for participants:

Have you ever wondered about why we move the way we do? How do our bodies react to our environment and to one another?

Learn more about your body in our new Theatre for Seniors workshop, this time through movement and collaboration! Conducted by established theatre performer and director Koh Wan Ching, this workshop for Seniors provides an introduction to movement and physical theatre, and invites TFS members to develop new approaches in their performance. Each participant is expected to create work and perform in compositions with one another.

Why should I join this workshop?

Elements of space and time are the building blocks of every creative event that happens in the theatre. This workshop will allow us to break down the various elements of space and time before experimenting with how they are integrated in a theatrical event. It is also an invitation to play and explore with your body, brain and heart while collaborating with space, time and each other.

The workshop will include physical exercises, games, Viewpoints training and collaborative devising activities.

While this training involves physical movement, the workshop environment is mindful that it is a space for seniors, and utmost care will be taken to adapt movement trainings for different ages.

Come November, The Necessary Stage is pleased to have Alan Lyddiard, Artistic Director of The Performance Ensemble (UK) assisted by Singaporean writer Chng Suan Tze, to conduct a workshop on devising and performance. 

The five-day workshop explores the idea that we all have stories to tell and that other people’s personal stories are important for us to hear. Not just grand stories, but small, seemingly insignificant stories that can become meaningful and teach us something about ourselves and the world we live in.

Over five evenings, we will discover stories hidden in our hearts that deserve to be told, and we will discover ways of telling them that will touch the hearts of our audiences. We will create authentic theatre through story-telling, movement, music and visual imagery.

Here's your chance to get a first-hand experience of the unique devising methodology developed by The Necessary Stage’s Alvin Tan and Haresh Sharma!

Characters and relationships are key to The Necessary Stage’s signature works – indigenous, intercultural, character-driven and issue-based. The company’s founder and Artistic Director Alvin Tan and Resident Playwright Haresh Sharma will conduct this two-day Devising Masterclass, where they will share their distinctive creative process, honed through the creation of numerous important works such as Off Centre, Fundamentally Happy and Gemuk Girls.

Focusing on the Festival’s theme of Art & Loss, participants will create characters from a series of individual and group improvisational exercises. They will also come up with scenarios, use tableaux and write scenes based on their improvised characters.