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The word 'movement' in theatre seems to scare people. "What exactly do you mean--a movement-based play?", ask actors when I ask actors if they are interested in participating. When asked by The Necessary Stage to direct this, I wasn't too sure myself what shape the play would take. We often take refuge in words. What the cast and I have done is to use as our starting point, not content but form--working with rhythm, sound, colours, texture, imagery to come up with movement-base improvisational pieces that use no words. Words picked up from various sources cut and patched together were introduced only when we got used to using our bodies, rather than just our mouths.

This is a fable about the Garden. Shay, who lives in the garden, becomes a victim when the garden is destroyed. Banished to the tree with the seven branches, she has to endure the darkness and coldness of the destroyed garden.

Dev, Gerald and Thomas are three good friends working together and enjoying the time they spend with each other. However, not everything is as neat as it appears. All three have problems with their race, religion or background. they discover things about their friendship they never knew existed until a promotion and a talentime come between them.

Set in a secondary school, Those Who Can't, Teach focuses on Mrs Phua Su-Lin, a teacher and single mother trying her best to manage both roles. Faced with constant and rapid changes in her life, she finds increasing difficulty coping with her two major roles. Further complications arise when there is news that her school is moving to another district. Changes take place everywhere but what happens to those who are unable to adapt?

Two perfect strangers, a salesman and a rich lady, engage in a spontaneous yet intense conversation about their lives while they wait. One suffers from a broken marriage, the other is disillusioned after a break-up in a relationship. From their discussion they come to realise that they are strangely related. What is more interesting is how.