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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 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
 

Talks & Interviews

Interculturality and Interdisciplinarity

The iMagination Center is dedicated to imagination, innovation and transdisciplinarity. It aims at training current and future managers to understand today's world in motion while making them actors of the world to build for tomorrow.

 iMagination Week is a seminar dedicated to imagination, creativity and transdisciplinarity.

The objective is to culturally enrich the students by taking them out of their usual work habit and exposing them to experts from various disciplines like life sciences, future studies, art, technology, and sciences, among others. It is also to invite the students to envision the future and develop their creative minds by stimulating their imagination and team work capabilities.
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
 

Publications

Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 6

Interlogue is a Series which brings into critical focus the works of Singapore writers in English. The Series aims for stimulating insights presented in a refreshing manner through sustained engagements with a variety of approaches, themes and perspectives. The first 3 volumes concentrate on fiction, poetry and drama. The contributors range from established scholars to new, young researchers in the field. All offer essays which serve to extend and enrich current understanding of the literature. Later volumes focus on individual authors and texts. Interlogue is designed to put Singapore Literature on the world map so that it will get the attention it deserves.

This volume in the Interlogue Series examines in detail Haresh Sharma’s extensive body of work, beginning with his very early writing and ending with his 2006 work. Prof. David Birch tries to paint a large social, political, economic and cultural landscape of Sharma’s writing and theatre since 1988, within and outside of his work with The Necessary Stage. He poses some key questions about Sharma’s development as a writer; the themes and issues he engages with and his vision and practice of theatre.
2007
 

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
 

Workshops

In the Lenses of Youth

A premiere of short video works by a group of young people on their perspectives of women in their lives. In the Lenses of Youth, showcases the results of a pioneering initiative by filmmaker, Jasmine Ng (Co-producer of Eating Air) and prize-winning playwright, Chong Tze Chien, to utilise the creative medium of video in the personal development of youths. Through a series of workshops, the young participants are not only taught the technical skills required to express themselves in video but are also taught life skills.
2001
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