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The Orange Playground Lab #2

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.

In this Lab, a new ensemble experiments with set design, sonic elements and text. 
2015

Productions

Best Of

Award-winning actress Siti Khalijah takes centre-stage in this brand new one-woman show specially created for her by Alvin Tan and Haresh Sharma, two of Singapore's finest theatre practitioners.

She is a young Malay-Muslim Woman going through a divorce.She starts her day at the prison.
She ends her day at the hospital.
In between, she meets strangers,
she encounters prejudice.she encounters prejudice.

Sometimes she hates what she sees around her, sometimes she is moved.
She shares her day with the audience;
her life, her past, her dreams…
and her fears.

She is not a stereotype.
She is not a statistic.
She just wants to get on with her life.

First performed in 2013 and staged four times in Singapore and Malaysia to popular and critical acclaim, Best Of combines social critique with intimate revelation and offers an enthralling insight into modern Singapore.
2015
 -
United States

Staging

Best Of

Award-winning actress Siti Khalijah takes centre-stage in this brand new one-woman show specially created for her by Alvin Tan and Haresh Sharma, two of Singapore's finest theatre practitioners.

She is a young Malay-Muslim Woman going through a divorce.She starts her day at the prison.
She ends her day at the hospital.
In between, she meets strangers,
she encounters prejudice.she encounters prejudice.

Sometimes she hates what she sees around her, sometimes she is moved.
She shares her day with the audience;
her life, her past, her dreams…
and her fears.

She is not a stereotype.
She is not a statistic.
She just wants to get on with her life.

First performed in 2013 and staged four times in Singapore and Malaysia to popular and critical acclaim, Best Of combines social critique with intimate revelation and offers an enthralling insight into modern Singapore.
2015
 -
United States

Productions

Best Of

Award-winning actress Siti Khalijah takes centre-stage in this brand new one-woman show specially created for her by Alvin Tan and Haresh Sharma, two of Singapore's finest theatre practitioners.

She is a young Malay-Muslim Woman going through a divorce.She starts her day at the prison.
She ends her day at the hospital.
In between, she meets strangers,
she encounters prejudice.she encounters prejudice.

Sometimes she hates what she sees around her, sometimes she is moved.
She shares her day with the audience;
her life, her past, her dreams…
and her fears.

She is not a stereotype.
She is not a statistic.
She just wants to get on with her life.

First performed in 2013 and staged four times in Singapore and Malaysia to popular and critical acclaim, Best Of combines social critique with intimate revelation and offers an enthralling insight into modern Singapore.
2015
 -
Australia

Staging

Best Of

Award-winning actress Siti Khalijah takes centre-stage in this brand new one-woman show specially created for her by Alvin Tan and Haresh Sharma, two of Singapore's finest theatre practitioners.

She is a young Malay-Muslim Woman going through a divorce.She starts her day at the prison.
She ends her day at the hospital.
In between, she meets strangers,
she encounters prejudice.she encounters prejudice.

Sometimes she hates what she sees around her, sometimes she is moved.
She shares her day with the audience;
her life, her past, her dreams…
and her fears.

She is not a stereotype.
She is not a statistic.
She just wants to get on with her life.

First performed in 2013 and staged four times in Singapore and Malaysia to popular and critical acclaim, Best Of combines social critique with intimate revelation and offers an enthralling insight into modern Singapore.
2015
 -
Australia
 

Talks & Interviews

2015 Cultural Medallion Recipient: Haresh Sharma

An interview with Cultural Medallion recipient Haresh Sharma.
2015
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Singapore
 

Workshops

The Orange Playground Lab #3

Are rules meant to be broken? An ensemble questions and reimagines the conventions and norms surrounding their individual practices. How do we problematize the ideal?

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.
2015
 

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
 -
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
 -
Singapore

Productions

Sing Along session

A medley of songs where the audience can join in to clap and sing along.
2015
 -
Singapore

Productions

Pioneer (Girls) Generation

Set in Singapore’s only luxurious home for the elderly, the excerpt reveals how the residents react to an increase in fees for the home.

Pioneer (Girls) Generation was staged as part of The Necessary Stage's main season at Gallery Theatre, National Museum of Singapore from 26th March 2015 to 29th March 2015.
2015
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Singapore

Productions

Mother’s Day

A hilarious comedy about two mothers-in-law who can’t stand each other but there is one thing they both agree on.

First performed by the Theatre for Seniors actors as part of The Necessary Stage's Encore III: Family Knots at Marine Parade Community Club Theatrette, between 18th March 2011 and 20th March 2011.
2015
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Singapore
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