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Productions

Dolls and Dolls

Erika calls the dolls…. They come.
2002
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Singapore
 

Productions

School Rules

You'd think it would be easy enough to get into a classroom on your first day as a teacher. Maybe you could even teach a lesson… But in this satirical farce, newbie Philip finds that school ain't what it used to be since the System took over.
2002
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Singapore
 

Productions

Serve

CPL Cheong has just been shot in the belly at the firing range: in the last moments of his life, he tells the audience his story. He has been pregnant with a child of unknown origin since BMT, or so he believes. Despite the sensible advice of his army buddy and his government prostitute imaginary friend, he attempts to destroy the foetus by various means, including visits to the Medical Centre and a fall from the roof of the Accoms block (which earns him a medical downgrade). Eventually, Cheong learns to live with his pregnancy until, when approaching ORD, he realises the child may survive him and shoots himself.
2002
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Singapore
 

Productions

Special...

Ian hates school. He has no friends and bullies make his life hell. Worst of all, he hates himself. Because he isn't special. Until one day he quite simply wills himself into being so and he tells his classmates that they should now leave him alone because he has a secret power: to walk on barren soil and make it flower at him feet. No one believes him, of course, and so Ian has to decide just how very special he really is.
2002
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Singapore
 

Productions

A Theory of Time

It's a play which explores time, trains and the theory of relativity. But mostly, it track the one year that Elaine, a 37-year old school teacher, has taken off work, so as to care for her elderly father.
2002
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Singapore
 

Staging

Akan Datang

Akan Datang is a public showing to celebrate the end of the first phase of the works by these playwrights. We hope that local theatre companies will take an interest in these playwrights and be forthcoming in their support. 
2002
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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
 

Essays/Writings

Prospects for Multi-Sectoral Partnerships in Singapore

How has the growth of civil society in Singapore affected the development of multi-sectoral partnerships in the city-state?  What are the political context of state-society relations in Singapore, and the prospects for such multi-stakeholder partnerships?

 

Project Serial Number: AA200201

Due to copyright restrictions, we are unable to reproduce this essay/writing online. Please contact the resource owner directly for permissions if reproduction rights do not belong to The Necessary Stage Ltd. Otherwise, kindly contact us for access to the full resource. Do note that archival access and reproduction charges may apply.
2002
 

Publications

focas No. 3, Jan 2002

Work/Play
Kitsch & the Singapore Modern
Bodies & Text

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.
2002
 

Publications

PIE to SPOILT

Collection of four highly innovative plays written by Chong Tze Chien, the resident playwright of Singapore's socially committed theatre company, The Necessary Stage (f.1987). The plays are complemented by an introduction by Prof. K.K. Seet, director of the Theatre Studies Program at the National University of Singapore and interviews with Alvin Tan, founder of the Necessary Stage. The plays cut furrows far from conventional boulevard theatre and deal with society's margins and constantly question, confront and destabilise conventional norms of Singaporeans. Chong Tze Chien's PIE (Pan Island Expressway) won the 1998 Singapore Dramatist Award and was staged by TheatreWorks in 1999.
2002
 

Productions

Dare to Dream

To some, the future beyond secondary school looks bright and hopeful, and to others it seems like a series of impossible trials and disappointments. Is dreaming just something you do when you are asleep or bored or want to escape reality, or can dreaming be a ticket to a bright future? Through a surreal time travelling adventure, Matthew awakens to the possibilities of dreaming and realizing the impossible.

Dare to Dream is one of the tenets of the National Youth Council, Singapore's Vision for Youth. This play hopes to help young people realise the importance of being self-motivated, taking calculated risks and remembering to have goals and ideals.
2001
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Singapore
 

Staging

Dare to Dream

To some, the future beyond secondary school looks bright and hopeful, and to others it seems like a series of impossible trials and disappointments. Is dreaming just something you do when you are asleep or bored or want to escape reality, or can dreaming be a ticket to a bright future? Through a surreal time travelling adventure, Matthew awakens to the possibilities of dreaming and realizing the impossible.

Dare to Dream is one of the tenets of the National Youth Council, Singapore's Vision for Youth. This play hopes to help young people realise the importance of being self-motivated, taking calculated risks and remembering to have goals and ideals.
2001
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Singapore
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