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Staging

Secrets From My Room

A group of oldies are caught off guard by the demands of ageing. They are 80 years old and not ready to die.

An artist has yet to finish the painting of her life. An aeging model still wants to be beautiful. A man only remembers his flower. A woman cannot stop questioning her life. The pious one loves only God and her cockroach. The weird lady keeps cleaning and the mature one wants to throw a party.

A paper doll visits and tells them one of them is next in line for death.

Refusing to act their age, these 7 old kids throw a fit. Panic sets in and they do the unthinkable.
2004
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Singapore
 

Productions

Mixed Blessings

Forum Theatre is an extremely empowering, engaging form of theatre with an aim to change the spectator from a passive observer to an active participant. The audience offers suggestions, solutions and alternatives with the hope of changing the destiny of the protagonist, or in this case, protagonists.

The philosophy behind this model is that if no one tries to change things within society, the world would remain the same. Mixed Blessings deals with weighty issues such as race, religion, culture and tradition. It's unsettling when we are reminded that prejudice and intolerance are still right around the corner.

The issues raised and characters portrayed in this play will seem familiar, and for many of us, it will be close to our hearts.
2004
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Singapore
 

Staging

Mixed Blessings

Forum Theatre is an extremely empowering, engaging form of theatre with an aim to change the spectator from a passive observer to an active participant. The audience offers suggestions, solutions and alternatives with the hope of changing the destiny of the protagonist, or in this case, protagonists.

The philosophy behind this model is that if no one tries to change things within society, the world would remain the same. Mixed Blessings deals with weighty issues such as race, religion, culture and tradition. It's unsettling when we are reminded that prejudice and intolerance are still right around the corner.

The issues raised and characters portrayed in this play will seem familiar, and for many of us, it will be close to our hearts.
2004
 -
Singapore
 

Productions

Such Sweet Sorrow

Based on true stories that shocked, touched, and inflamed Singaporeans, Such Sweet Sorrow grabs Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet and squeezes out the essence of intense relationships and turns romance on its head, in a blender. A ritual killer, a distressed construction worker, a blindly loyal wife, conjoined twins who want to live as individuals, along with unnerving new reincarnations of the Friar, the Nurse and the Prince, they will bring you on a journey of EXTREME LOVE, exposing the artificiality and destruction of ROMANCE. This shocking and stunning new remix will bring you to the very core of the ultra contemporary R & J via a most disturbing and at times hilarious deconstruction of this ancient tale.
2004
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Singapore
 

Staging

Such Sweet Sorrow

Based on true stories that shocked, touched, and inflamed Singaporeans, Such Sweet Sorrow grabs Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet and squeezes out the essence of intense relationships and turns romance on its head, in a blender. A ritual killer, a distressed construction worker, a blindly loyal wife, conjoined twins who want to live as individuals, along with unnerving new reincarnations of the Friar, the Nurse and the Prince, they will bring you on a journey of EXTREME LOVE, exposing the artificiality and destruction of ROMANCE. This shocking and stunning new remix will bring you to the very core of the ultra contemporary R & J via a most disturbing and at times hilarious deconstruction of this ancient tale.
2004
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Singapore
 

Festivals

M1 Theatre Connect 2004

2004
 

Essays/Writings

The Performance of Censorship

This essay/writing was reproduced courtesy of Alfian Sa'at.

Project Serial Number: AA200401
2004
 

Publications

Ask Not

Can Singapore - a nation driven by the politics of economic development - see the Arts as more than just cultural enterprise contributing to the country's GDP? With the new focus on theatre as business, what is the impact on socially-engaged and experimental theatre?

This volume of commentaries and critical essays, contributed by renowned practitioners and critics, tracks the achievements of social theatre in the past two decades through a detailed study of The Necessary Stage. Dealing with censorship, cultural bureaucracy, and evolving arts policies, they propose alternatives to the prevailing official discourse, and call for a re-thinking of art and culture as an enterprise that encompasses both social conscience and profitability.
2004
 

Productions

Survivor Singapore

A group of students have been assigned a project on the theme of National Education. They wrack their brains to find out what they can do that will really make a difference. Instead of going on field trips to the Parliament House or performing a multiracial dance, they decide to create a project that will make all young Singaporeans value life and not take their comforts for granted. They decide to create Survivor Singapore. But...have they gone too far to prove a point? 
2003
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Singapore
 

Staging

Survivor Singapore

A group of students have been assigned a project on the theme of National Education. They wrack their brains to find out what they can do that will really make a difference. Instead of going on field trips to the Parliament House or performing a multiracial dance, they decide to create a project that will make all young Singaporeans value life and not take their comforts for granted. They decide to create Survivor Singapore. But...have they gone too far to prove a point? 
2003
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Singapore

Productions

Happy Family

Set within a typical HDB setting, Happy Family offers an honest look at a Singaporean family on the verge of falling apart. At the centre of the turmoil is a teenage girl, instead of a carefree life where she can spend time with friends and focus on her studies, she experiences domestic violence, financial problems, fear and uncertainty on a daily basis. To escape, she turns to vice and self-destruction. Finally, she sinks to a point where she decides enough is enough. She realises that she can either sink under her overwhelming circumstances or make positive decisions and take active steps to stay afloat.
2003
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Singapore

Staging

Happy Family

Set within a typical HDB setting, Happy Family offers an honest look at a Singaporean family on the verge of falling apart. At the centre of the turmoil is a teenage girl, instead of a carefree life where she can spend time with friends and focus on her studies, she experiences domestic violence, financial problems, fear and uncertainty on a daily basis. To escape, she turns to vice and self-destruction. Finally, she sinks to a point where she decides enough is enough. She realises that she can either sink under her overwhelming circumstances or make positive decisions and take active steps to stay afloat.
2003
 -
Singapore
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