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International Friendship Day

It’s International Friendship Day at MPSS but friendship seems to be the last thing on the students’ minds.

While the foreign students Adi, Anton and Liqin are questioning what to showcase at their booths and why there isn’t one for the local students, the Drama Club boys are unhappy about them not putting any effort towards the much anticipated Singapore Youth Festival (SYF).

Meanwhile, Carys is facing pressure at home for losing her spot as the school’s top Maths student.

Will she lose her top spot to an international scholar?

Will the Drama Club boys get the foreigners to join in the chorus?

Will Adi get the booth of his choice?

International Friendship Day was first commissioned by Singapore Kindness Movement in 2015, and was restaged as part of Peer Pleasure 2016. 
2021
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Singapore
 

Staging

It Takes All Kinds

The Necessary Stage’s Theatre for Seniors

presents

IT TAKES ALL KINDS

 

What is your recipe for a successful family?

What does it take for us to work through conflicts together? Or will the ties that bind come undone when times are hard—or when we bid our final goodbyes?

The Necessary Stage’s Theatre for Seniors celebrates its 10th anniversary with It Takes All Kinds, a heartwarming performance about love in our families. Developed in collaboration with Setagaya Public Theatre from Tokyo, the devised production is created by our seniors and residents through workshops exploring their real-life experiences and perspectives.

It takes all kinds of ingredients to make a winning recipe of familial love. We invite you to savour ours, and hope to discover yours as well at the theatre.
2019
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Singapore
 

Productions

It Takes All Kinds

The Necessary Stage’s Theatre for Seniors

presents

IT TAKES ALL KINDS

 

What is your recipe for a successful family?

What does it take for us to work through conflicts together? Or will the ties that bind come undone when times are hard—or when we bid our final goodbyes?

The Necessary Stage’s Theatre for Seniors celebrates its 10th anniversary with It Takes All Kinds, a heartwarming performance about love in our families. Developed in collaboration with Setagaya Public Theatre from Tokyo, the devised production is created by our seniors and residents through workshops exploring their real-life experiences and perspectives.

It takes all kinds of ingredients to make a winning recipe of familial love. We invite you to savour ours, and hope to discover yours as well at the theatre.
2019
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Singapore
 

Productions

International Friendship Day

It’s International Friendship Day at MPSS but friendship seems to be the last thing on the students’ minds.

While the foreign students Adi, Anton and Liqin are questioning what to showcase at their booths and why there isn’t one for the local students, the Drama Club boys are unhappy about them not putting any effort towards the much anticipated SYF.

Meanwhile, Carys is facing pressure at home for losing her spot as the school’s top Maths student.

Will she lose her top spot to an international scholar?
Will the Drama Club boys get the foreigners to join in the chorus?
Will Adi get the booth of his choice?

Join us at International Friendship Day with the MPSS students as we discuss cross-cultural differences in this interactive theatre piece!
2016
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Singapore
 

Staging

International Friendship Day

It’s International Friendship Day at MPSS but friendship seems to be the last thing on the students’ minds.

While the foreign students Adi, Anton and Liqin are questioning what to showcase at their booths and why there isn’t one for the local students, the Drama Club boys are unhappy about them not putting any effort towards the much anticipated SYF.

Meanwhile, Carys is facing pressure at home for losing her spot as the school’s top Maths student.

Will she lose her top spot to an international scholar?
Will the Drama Club boys get the foreigners to join in the chorus?
Will Adi get the booth of his choice?

Join us at International Friendship Day with the MPSS students as we discuss cross-cultural differences in this interactive theatre piece!
2015
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Singapore
 

Productions

International Friendship Day

It’s International Friendship Day at MPSS but friendship seems to be the last thing on the students’ minds.

While the foreign students Adi, Anton and Liqin are questioning what to showcase at their booths and why there isn’t one for the local students, the Drama Club boys are unhappy about them not putting any effort towards the much anticipated SYF.

Meanwhile, Carys is facing pressure at home for losing her spot as the school’s top Maths student.

Will she lose her top spot to an international scholar?
Will the Drama Club boys get the foreigners to join in the chorus?
Will Adi get the booth of his choice?

Join us at International Friendship Day with the MPSS students as we discuss cross-cultural differences in this interactive theatre piece!
2015
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Singapore
 

Essays/Writings

I don't want East, I don't want West

The following is an extract from the essay/writing. The full version can be accessed online here on page 94 in SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English, Volume 44 June 2002.


Robert Yeo recalls his first arrival in England in 1966, where he was "...confronted by this notion of identity and I found out that my cultural identity was very mixed. I felt incomplete as the new Singaporean" (Yeo 133). This was an admission that, culturally at least, Singapore had not found an identity. Its identity, such as it was, was a jangling, uneasy mish-mash of East and West, with a greater tendency towards the West. As Yeo points out, "I could sing lots of American and British songs....Was I able to recite a pantun? I couldn't. Was I able to sing a Chinese ditty? I couldn't" (Yeo 133). He was a Singaporean, but unable to say what made him Singapore.


Project Serial Number: AA200202
2002

Staging

I want it and I want it now!

This play seeks to explore teenagers' attitude of wanting immediate gratification, materialism, affluence and lack of personal identity leading them to join gangs, etc. Through this play, students will be shown reflections of themselves, and the possible causes of their behaviours and attitudes. Through self-parody & identification, it is hoped that students will then be encouraged to reflect on their own values and attitudes.
2001
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Singapore

Productions

I want it and I want it now!

This play seeks to explore teenagers' attitude of wanting immediate gratification, materialism, affluence and lack of personal identity leading them to join gangs, etc. Through this play, students will be shown reflections of themselves, and the possible causes of their behaviours and attitudes. Through self-parody & identification, it is hoped that students will then be encouraged to reflect on their own values and attitudes.
2001
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Singapore

Staging

Imagined Boundaries

Eleven artists have installed ten site specific works around the Marine Parade Community Building - from the public toilets to the rooftops. One of the aims of the exhibition has been to juxtapose the perceptive and playful ways that contemporary artists interrogate conceptual, geographical, vocational and socio-political boundaries in their work.

Another focus has been to explore the dialogues between the artists, the works, the snazzy new Marine Parade Community Building and the Marine Parade Community.

The sub-title for this exhibition, Encounters with New Model Community, is gently tongue in cheek - drawing from images of legoland utopia. And the word "Encounters" is similar self ironic - as if referring to the naively optimistic artist who dreams of engaging "the local" - Lucy Davis
2000
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Singapore

Productions

It Makes Monica Want to Fly

Medium: Outdoor Installation
Dimensions: Variable

Don't let your dreams fly by.
2000
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Singapore
 

Staging

Is This Our Stop?

This hour-long play takes place on a moving bus. What's the story? Tracy Tan boards the bus. She doesn't really know what to do with her life. She does know that she has to make a life-changing decision by the time the bus reaches her stop. Meanwhile, on the bus, strange things start to happen.
2000
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Singapore
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