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Mari Kita Main Wayang or Let's Stage a Play is a laugh-a-minute comedy satire on Peranakan life that pokes innocent fun at a group of Babas and Nonyas who try to put up a play.

Is a play within a play. Performed in Peranakan patois, it pokes fun, in good taste at a group of Babas who try to put up a play; entitled, ENAM BINI (SIX WIVES), this story is about an imaginary Baba King who keeps one concubine after another as he longs to get a son. Although the sixth concubine finally delivers a male child, surprises are in store for the king, the queen, as well as the concubine.

Off Centre traces the friendship of two ex-mental patients, Saloma and Vinod, and the problems and hurdles they have to overcome, including social stigmas, prejudices and personal conflicts. the play uses effective techniques of flashbacks; moving the character in and out of their schizophrenic and normal selves to elicit their rational and emotional experiences.

Waiting is about what happens when three lonesome waiters bond together as a family to combat cold soups and demanding diners.

In December 93, The Necessary Stage held auditions for a play that required people who had attempted suicide or thought about it. About 50 people turned up - each with a different story to share. Now 6 months later, after intensive discussions & improvisations we present 'Scuse Me While I Kiss The Sky, an evening of sharing, of stories - sometimes startling, painful, sometimes funny...but always honest.

Twelve people come together to rehearse a play. It is their third rehearsal and they are just beginning to get to know one another. The first two rehearsals have been friendly and fun, but today, they are about to get into the 'topic'.

In the course of the rehearsal and the sharing, tension arises as they struggle to come to terms with the different temperaments. By the end of the evening, there is a realisation that all twelve are bound by a common experience - the rediscovery of life.

Talk is a play about a talk show that deals with all sorts of problems we face today. Some examples are human being's misconceptions on love, woman, family and the good life. It also covers rude Singaporeans during a cinema show who are out to have fun at the expense of other viewers. Singaporeans who claim to have a right on other people's lives fortheir own pleasures. 

Talk is about misguided youths and young adults who want to escape reality and end up dead. It is humorous, energetic, dark and very serious. 

Talk is about talk: what will become of us when we do not talk or communicate, and yet the other question still remains - what happens to people who do talk. So how do we behave today? To talk or not to talk, that is the question.