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Shanti has been a widow for some time.  Her good friends Doris and Nancy think they can find her the perfect companion.  But can they convince Shanti to give love another chance?

Join The Necessary Stage’s Theatre for Seniors in a cheeky sketch about love in the twilight years.
2013
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Singapore

Staging

Match

Shanti has been a widow for some time.  Her good friends Doris and Nancy think they can find her the perfect companion.  But can they convince Shanti to give love another chance?

Join The Necessary Stage’s Theatre for Seniors in a cheeky sketch about love in the twilight years.
2013
 -
Singapore
 

Productions

Old Flames

Things are starting to look up for Shanti when she falls in love with John, a lonely Chinese widower. In the past, she has had problems with her neighbour, she has struggled with her daughter's decision not to return to Singapore after studying overseas. At work, as an Environmental Inspector, she was caught in an argument between three aunties and mosquitoes breeding.

However, will John's daughters approve of their marriage? Will these old flames shine brightly?

A fun and interactive show set in Queenstown, Old Flames is a series of short skits that will entertain and delight the audience.
2013
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Singapore
 

Staging

Old Flames

Things are starting to look up for Shanti when she falls in love with John, a lonely Chinese widower. In the past, she has had problems with her neighbour, she has struggled with her daughter's decision not to return to Singapore after studying overseas. At work, as an Environmental Inspector, she was caught in an argument between three aunties and mosquitoes breeding.

However, will John's daughters approve of their marriage? Will these old flames shine brightly?

A fun and interactive show set in Queenstown, Old Flames is a series of short skits that will entertain and delight the audience.
2013
 -
Singapore
 

Productions

Mobile 2: Flat Cities

On the cusp of Japan's surrender during World War II, a Japanese general suffers a stroke and is tended to by a Malay gardener. As they spar, having heated debates about the war, the present is revealed: a Japanese man in a relationship with an Indian woman in Kuala Lumpur; his ex-wife coming to grips with an astrologer's predictions; their son, studying in the United States and confronted by his classmates about Japan's past.

A multilingual production featuring artists from Singapore, Malaysia and Japan, Mobile 2: Flat Cities casts the spotlight on stories of personal, social and universal struggles across Asian cities.

The play is The Necessary Stage's long-awaited follow up to the critically-acclaimed Mobile, which premiered at the 2006 Singapore Arts Festival and toured to Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo. 
2013
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Singapore
 

Staging

Mobile 2: Flat Cities

On the cusp of Japan's surrender during World War II, a Japanese general suffers a stroke and is tended to by a Malay gardener. As they spar, having heated debates about the war, the present is revealed: a Japanese man in a relationship with an Indian woman in Kuala Lumpur; his ex-wife coming to grips with an astrologer's predictions; their son, studying in the United States and confronted by his classmates about Japan's past.

A multilingual production featuring artists from Singapore, Malaysia and Japan, Mobile 2: Flat Cities casts the spotlight on stories of personal, social and universal struggles across Asian cities.

The play is The Necessary Stage's long-awaited follow up to the critically-acclaimed Mobile, which premiered at the 2006 Singapore Arts Festival and toured to Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo. 
2013
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Singapore

Productions

Pantang

Can a stove of burning charcoal determine the luck of three ladies?
2013
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Singapore

Productions

Mosquito

Three aunties get into an argument when an inspector discovers mosquitoes breeding in a pool of water. Who's the culprit?
2013
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Singapore

Staging

Mosquito and Pantang

2013
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Singapore

Talks & Interviews

Negotiating Translation

Haresh delivered a keynote presentation titled Negotiating Translation: Case Studies of Multilingual Playwriting and Theatre-making at the 2013 Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA) conference Staging Changes: Translation as Innovation and Intervention.

There were individual presentations, panels, workshops and performances that explored translation in theatre, drama and performance as pivotal to innovation and intervention. Translating or adapting a work from another culture, or transposing a piece from one medium to another, has traditionally reflected how we imagine and represent unifying identities: cultural, national, regional, ethnic, or linguistic. However, these practices also allow us to stage change by historicising, localising and interpreting individual and communal experiences in a multicultural setting.

To promote a dialogue between creative practice and critical reflection, this conference considered the opportunities translation and adaptation present for creating and disrupting collective identities, and for diversifying mainstream audiences and performance practices. The conference interrogated both the possibility and impossibility of translation, its achievements and failures in (re)ordering and (dis)locating individual and collective desires and destinies.
2013
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Singapore
 

Productions

Don't Know, Don't Care

Don't Know, Don't Care by The Necessary Stage looks at a family trying to deal with terminal illness within the household. Wrapped up in their own lives, the family members 'don't want to know'. They prefer to leave the care-giving to strangers. Soon, they realise they have to know, they learn how to care. They discover the importance of being there for each other. At a time of illness, they can finally share a bond and experience joy. 
2013
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Singapore
 

Staging

Don't Know, Don't Care

Don't Know, Don't Care by The Necessary Stage looks at a family trying to deal with terminal illness within the household. Wrapped up in their own lives, the family members 'don't want to know'. They prefer to leave the care-giving to strangers. Soon, they realise they have to know, they learn how to care. They discover the importance of being there for each other. At a time of illness, they can finally share a bond and experience joy. 
2013
 -
Singapore
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