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Don't Forget to Remember Me

Dementia is not normal ageing. When Madam Wong begins her retirement, all she can think of is enjoying her golden years with rest and serenity, surrounded by family and friends. However, rest turns into restlessness as she starts to lose her short-term memory. Her dream of a peaceful life soon becomes a nightmare of remembering and forgetting.
2009
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Singapore

Productions

Agent Penny and Will Power Return!

2009
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Singapore

Staging

Agent Penny and Will Power Return!

2009
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Singapore
 

Workshops

Theatre for Seniors Year 2

Theatre for Seniors is a 3-year programme for participants aged 50 and above launched in April 2008 by The Necessary Stage's Artistic Director Alvin Tan, and facilitated by Jean Ng, Julius Foo and Jalyn Han.

This innovative initiative was designed to equip participants with the essential skills and knowledge in drama and in various aspects of theatre, including acting, playwriting and directing, as well as administration and technical work.

The groundbreaking programme provides seniors an avenue to impart their personal stories and adds a new spectrum of looking at their life-history and cultural identity. The programme's end-of-first-year presentation Encore: An Evening of Ageless Theatre was staged at the Marine Parade Community Club Theatrette in March 2009.

Term 1 covered playwrighting.
Term 2 covered lighting (chinese group) and Voice work (english group)
Term 3 and 4 featured rehearsals for Encore II: Heartland, Heartland! (201003)

 
2009
 

Productions

@24

Where were you when you are 24 years old? What were you doing? Who were you with? Were you filled with dreams and ambitions? What happene? A marriage, a divorce, a first baby, a new job. @24 is an original devised piece with an exciting ensemble of 22 seniors reliving some of the most significant moments of their youth.
2009
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Singapore
 

Productions

轮流胆养

An old couple worked very hard to bring up their 4 children. In their old age, it is now the children's turn to look after their parents. One pair of parents, four children. What is a fair system of looking after this old couple? Is there a fair system?
2009
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Singapore
 

Productions

暗恋

In Shanghai, at the end of summer 1948, a young couple parted ways. Little did they realise that their next meeting would be 42 years later in the city of Taipei. Regrets and unspoken passions. Missed opportunities and miscommunications. What is the outcome of their meeting after 4 decades?

Adapted from 《暗恋桃花源》 by Stan Lai.
2009
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Singapore
 

Productions

Best Practice

An old woman is found sick and alone in her mice-infested house with vomit on her face and lying in her own faeces. She is put in a hospital where a social worker tries to help her. As her story unravels, we discover an old woman ready to give up her life to protect her own children and her dignity.
2009
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Singapore
 

Productions

Prosperity

It is the day before Chinese New Year and Mrs Tan's home has an unusually large number of Mandarin oranges around the house. Interestingly, her husband comes home with another bag bulging with Mandarin oranges. Why do they need so many Mandarin oranges?
2009
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Singapore
 

Staging

Encore: An Evening of Ageless Theatre

A theatre group of participants over the age of 50 will be putting up its first official performance – a medley of five short sketches which tell of stories drawn from life in the kampong, memorable first  loves and the realities of life for the elderly. Three will be performed in English and two in Mandarin.

The cast of 32 theatre enthusiasts have been training for one year under renowned theatre practitioners and are eager to entertain audiences with a splendid performance. This initiative was set up by The Necessary Stage to provide a meaningful activity for senior citizens to engage in.
2009
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Singapore
 

Productions

Past Caring

Inspired by the title of a poem by Australian writer Henry Lawson, Past Caring is an inter-disciplinary theatrical collaboration involving artists from Singapore and Australia. Urgent issues of adoption, displacement, family, land and journey will be weaved together into a complex and contemporary presentation of text, music, multimedia and movement. In a year-long process, the project involved artists making field trips, conducting interviews and creating and presenting nascent works in Singapore and Melbourne.
2009
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Singapore
 

Staging

Past Caring

Inspired by the title of a poem by Australian writer Henry Lawson, Past Caring is an inter-disciplinary theatrical collaboration involving artists from Singapore and Australia. Urgent issues of adoption, displacement, family, land and journey will be weaved together into a complex and contemporary presentation of text, music, multimedia and movement. In a year-long process, the project involved artists making field trips, conducting interviews and creating and presenting nascent works in Singapore and Melbourne.
2009
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Singapore
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