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Logos explores the theme of language through movements, sound and lighting. Landscapes are represented with the human body to suggest how we have seem to have lost contact with nature and that language seems to have a part to play in the subjugation of nature, and eventually, of ourselves, our fellow human beings. All ' recognisable' texts in the play are extracts from others, such as Lu Hsun, Martin Luther King Jr., William Shakespeare's 'Bottom' and the Vedas. 

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.  

Still Building is about people trapped by family, by friends, by buildings and by themselves, and their attempts to break free.

Still Building is about people trapped by family, by friends, by buildings and by themselves, and their attempts to break free.

Photographs is about nostalgia and déjà vu, feelings which beckon from the past, feelings which are often comforting, but which can also hinder and obscure struggle with the present. This play is about the past—how people deal with it, come to terms with it and move on from it—or how they don't.

Three actors who don't know each other audition for and got parts in a play about putting the past behind. Gradually, they find their past catching up with them and affecting the way they relate to each other, sometimes despite efforts to the contrary. The play questions the role of the past—how much we should learn from it, how much we should use it to cope with the present and how we should move away from it.

This play revolves around Kah Wei, a 15-year old girld, who will be sitting for her GCE 'O' Level examinations next year. The play starts with Chinese New Year where Kah Wei's relatives' constant nagging and unwanted advise force her to seek refuge in he room. The scenes that follow reveal the different aspects of Kah Wei's character--her relationships, her childhood, her coming to grips with the roles she must play and the various expectations she faces.

As the play progresss, we may find ourselves as Kah Wei does, questioning the dos and don'ts, the whys and hows, of life. Or, we may find ourselves questioning Kah Wei.

The Lanterns Project is a 1-month programme in March and is part of the 1994 Young People's Theatre.

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.