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"I left in the morning, with a bottle of water, in search of her."

So begins a woman's journey--a journey filled with chance encounters, strange visions and transient connections. In the course of the woman's search, she encounters various characters from her past--the old matchstick man, the young girl, the boatman and the angel.

As day turns into night, as her water bottle slowly becomes empty, the woman is forced to confront her journey: "When soemone is searching, the only thing your eyes see is what you search for", the girl tells her. "You must stop searching and start finding."

Can her search ever end?

Acclaimed playwright Haresh Sharma has drawn inspiration from Hesse's Siddhartha, Gibran's The Prophet and other stories of journey and search to create a new writing for the theatre.

Employing techniques of storytelling, magic realism and narrative framing, Koan is a theatrical and lyrical exploration of perspective and truth.

The production, helmed by visionary director Alvin Tan, also features interview footages with a 78 year-old Singaporean widow who talks about her husband, son and herself growing up in Singapore.

Koan has toured to the 2003 Asian Theatre Festival in Busan (Korea) and Next Wave 2003 Festival (Seoul, Korea)

A layered and moving exploration of power, sexuality and spirituality and survival in the post-traumatic world, the multiethnic, multimedia romp is interwoven with the stories and emotional landscapes of its characters.

Writing in response to 911, playwright Haresh Sharma excavates the tragedies that surfaced--dishonesties, power struggles, corruption and egos--which have made the world an elimination platform dominated by the powerful. Where do we look to for the new moral order?

godeatgod is an intimate, personal and at times funny exposition about trying to live a better life; a take on censorship in the context of art; and an examination of love and grief.

godeatgod was first staged in 2002.

Beyond the make-up, costumes and jokes, do we really know who Kumar is? He has committed his entire life to bringing the alternative, the politically incorrect (some may even add vulgar) into the mainstream. The Necessary Stage now provides a platform for the real Kumar to surface presenting Kumar's life, childhood, family, on being Indian, career and living in Singapore. Who would have known that beneath the lashes, sequins and feathers is an intelligent, kind even tender Indian gentleman. 

A group of oldies are caught off guard by the demands of ageing. They are 80 years old and not ready to die.

An artist has yet to finish the painting of her life. An aeging model still wants to be beautiful. A man only remembers his flower. A woman cannot stop questioning her life. The pious one loves only God and her cockroach. The weird lady keeps cleaning and the mature one wants to throw a party.

A paper doll visits and tells them one of them is next in line for death.

Refusing to act their age, these 7 old kids throw a fit. Panic sets in and they do the unthinkable.

Forum Theatre is an extremely empowering, engaging form of theatre with an aim to change the spectator from a passive observer to an active participant. The audience offers suggestions, solutions and alternatives with the hope of changing the destiny of the protagonist, or in this case, protagonists.

The philosophy behind this model is that if no one tries to change things within society, the world would remain the same. Mixed Blessings deals with weighty issues such as race, religion, culture and tradition. It's unsettling when we are reminded that prejudice and intolerance are still right around the corner.

The issues raised and characters portrayed in this play will seem familiar, and for many of us, it will be close to our hearts.

Based on true stories that shocked, touched, and inflamed Singaporeans, Such Sweet Sorrow grabs Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet and squeezes out the essence of intense relationships and turns romance on its head, in a blender. A ritual killer, a distressed construction worker, a blindly loyal wife, conjoined twins who want to live as individuals, along with unnerving new reincarnations of the Friar, the Nurse and the Prince, they will bring you on a journey of EXTREME LOVE, exposing the artificiality and destruction of ROMANCE. This shocking and stunning new remix will bring you to the very core of the ultra contemporary R & J via a most disturbing and at times hilarious deconstruction of this ancient tale.