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To celebrate its 20th Anniversary, The Necessary Stage presents a brand new play that deals with the issue of living, dying and the pain in between. Set in a hospice, Good People is about the ups and downs of the relationships between Miguel; the new Medical Director; Yati, the jaded nurse; and Radha, the terminally ill patient addicted to marijuana for pain relief. As the three get to know each other, complications arise, If Radha get caught, will she be given the death penalty when she has only a few months to live. Moving, humorous and evocative, Good People looks at urgent contemporary issues through the test of personal relationships.

First staged in 1993 to critical acclaim, Off Centre is recognised as a landmark play in the history of Singapore theatre, best remembered for bringing mental illness and its' patients' plight to the attention of the media and general public in Singapore.

The play traces the friendship of Saloma and Vinod and the hurdles they have to overcome, including social stigmas, prejudices and personal conflicts.

Off Centre has also been selected by the Ministry of Education as the first Singaporean play to be offered as a GCE 'O' Level literature text from 2007, and has been republished by The Necessary Stage.

Let Me Go! Is about Linda, who is invited by her best friend, to go to the concert of a lifetime! One major problem--she would get home way past her curfew and her mother will not budge. The audience will help Linda, through role-play of the characters with the actors, to discover ways to work through her frustrations, which might also be their own.

A unique collaboration involving artists from Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Japan, Mobile deals with stories of women and men who are affected by movement and migration. As the world becomes more mobile, has it also become more foreign?

Eric, a 30-year-old social worker, returns to his childhood neighbourhood and looks for the home of his old neighbour, Habiba. He finds that the couple are still living there, older and with children. As Eric and his old neighbour Habiba reminisce "the old days", a shocking secret is revealed--one that would forever change their lives.

A restaging of The Necessary Stage's recent success, Fundamentally Happy takes an unflinching look at the personal and emotional issues surrounding paedophilia, without judgement or blame.