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

With no idea how it will all turn out, The Necessary Stage will improvise and present a 45-minute play based on a central theme (yet to be decided). Find out how it all turns out…at the Bukom Theatrette.

After two highly successful runs in Singapore and Cairo last year, The Necessary Sage presents Still Building at The Substation. 

Still Building was voted by BiGO Magazine last year as "Best Offering" among the 13 plays staged for Theatre Carnival on the Hill [April 1992]. It was later selected by the National Arts Council to represent Singapore at the Cairon International Experimental Theatre Festival [September 1992].

In Still Building, two stories are juxtaposed in one play. The first is about two sisters, Kim and Cheng, and their good friend, Alan. Cheng, the younger of the two, cannot cope with the memories their house represents for her, and decides to move out. Alan, who is adopted, receives a letter from a couple in Manila claiming to be his real parents and decides to go there. Kim, who believes in stability and not rocking the boat, finds difficulty coping with Cheng and Alan's decisions. In the second story, three people [played by the same actors] are trapped when the building they are in collapses. Inspired by the Hotel New World collapse, this story shows the trauma of three people stuck in a mass of rubble, waiting to be rescued.

Over the Wall is a play that has an open text, inviting directors to attempt different workshopping approaches and interpretations.

My Mother's Wooden Chest is about a woman who is forced by circumstances to open up a "chestful of memories". In this pilgrimage into her past, she goes through some painful truths, reconciling herself with her "mother", herself and her life. The play unfolds the struggle of a woman against the norms of her time. It unveils genuine and identifiable problems, both personal and social.