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Staging

Don't Say I Say

These well known actors bring untold stories from the central Singapore district into the spotlight through a riveting and intimate piece of multilingual storytelling theatre.
2001
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Singapore
 

Festivals

The Necessary Community Festival

2001
 

Talks & Interviews

WORK/PLAY

The following description was extracted from the Introduction in focas Vol. 3 by Editor Lucy Davis.

The forum had grown out of two recent developments in the arts community. The first was a search for a language of practice. For some time now, various members of the arts community have felt that arts practice is increasingly overlooked for the sake of arts production. These attitudes, in turn, have lead to a tendency by some practitioners to essentialise their practice in a defensive response to allegedly product-focused arts funders and arts commentators. The second development that inspired the Work/Play forum was the oft-heard refrain, "Making Art isn't Fun Anymore", and the pressure on cultural production and practice to become more and more like other rationalised industries. This rationalisation of the arts finds expression in the ever-increasing application of productivity measures, including such quantitative "performance indicators" as the number of productions per company or per artist, per year, and audience per funded dollar.

The forum transcription was published in focas Vol. 3.
2001
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Singapore
 

Productions

Los Durmientes

"if God for an instance would forget that we are cloth marionettes and would give us a piece of life, possibly we would not say all that we think, we would definitely think all that we say. We would give value to all things, and not for what they are worth, but for what they mean. If God would give us a piece of life, we would dress simply, throw ourselves face-down, leaving bare, not only our bodies but souls..." A video installation by an Uruguayan for the people of Singapore.
2001
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Singapore
 

Productions

How to construct a valve on intensity?

A "soundcape" - constructed around "text", mediated by a synthesised voice, recordings and a "live" piano. [With the aim of creating a "listening" space, "visuals" will be kept to a minimum.]
2001
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Singapore
 

Productions

No Plot. Just Sex.

S                                 e                                 x.
[Synopsis suppressed by artists.]
This is the sexth production of The small Theatre.
2001
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Singapore
 

Staging

[names changed to protect the innocent]

2001
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Singapore
 

Talks & Interviews

The Death and Rebirth of the Playwright

The following description was extracted from the Introduction in focas Vol. 3 by Editor Lucy Davis.

The title of this forum is The Death and Rebirth of the Playwright. We came up with this title for different reasons, one being that, in the Singapore context at least, the playwriting scene is very young. There were attempts at writing plays and plays were staged in the 1960s and 1970s, but it as only in the 1980s when English language theatre started to blossom. There have been a number of playwrights from my (Haresh Sharma) generation in the 1980s but sadly there haven't been that many young playwrights who have come onto the scene. On top of this, there was a phase of very director-led theatre or post-modern theatre, where it was almost as if there wasn't a need for playwrights anymore.

The forum transcription was published in focas Vol. 3.

The video recording is available on request.
2001
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Singapore
 

Talks & Interviews

Launch of Singapore-Germany Playwright's Exchange-cum-Dialogue Session

The following description was extracted from the Introduction in focas Vol. 3 by Editor Lucy Davis.

The purpose of this exchange is so that playwrights from Singapore can have the chance to talk to playwrights from other societies and other cultures, to find out more about their daily processes, similarities and differences.

The forum transcription was published in focas Vol. 3.

The video recording is available on request.
2001
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Singapore
 

Publications

focas No. 2, Jul 2001

Precious Little Difference - Gender. Sexuality. Art. 
Protest, Provocation, Process - Cultural Activism in South East Asia 
Colonialism or Collaboration? - Intercultural Practice and International Arts Organisations

focas is a biannual publication that engages issues of contemporary art, politics and social change—primarily but not exclusively—in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

focas is dedicated to interdisciplinary exchange amongst scholars and practitioners.
2001

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

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
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