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Set within a typical HDB setting, Happy Family offers an honest look at a Singaporean family on the verge of falling apart. At the centre of the turmoil is a teenage girl, instead of a carefree life where she can spend time with friends and focus on her studies, she experiences domestic violence, financial problems, fear and uncertainty on a daily basis. To escape, she turns to vice and self-destruction. Finally, she sinks to a point where she decides enough is enough. She realises that she can either sink under her overwhelming circumstances or make positive decisions and take active steps to stay afloat.

A group of students have been assigned a project on the theme of National Education. They wrack their brains to find out what they can do that will really make a difference. Instead of going on field trips to the Parliament House or performing a multiracial dance, they decide to create a project that will make all young Singaporeans value life and not take their comforts for granted. They decide to create Survivor Singapore. But...have they gone too far to prove a point? 

Drawing inspiration from Hesse's Siddhartha, Gibran's The Prophet and other stories of journey and search, Haresh Sharma employs techniques of storytelling, magic realism and narrative framing to create a theatrical and lyrical exploration of perspective and truth. the production also features interview footages with a 78-year-old Singaporean widow who talks about her husband, her son and herself growing up in Singapore.

Someone fails her chemistry test but her mother is not nagging.
She is not happy.
She protests and her mother nags.
She is not happy still.

Someone is going away to study
Her father pays for her fees.
She lets him.
He cannot let go.
She lets him.
He asks her to stay.
She says 'no'.

Someone is a two-timer.
She breaks something.
But she doesn't want to lose a friend.

3 girls tell 3 stories about 3 choices they have to make when there is only 1 life to live.

Macho, macho man! I gotta be. . . a macho man? OH MAN! What are men like in Singapore? Powerful? Confused? Boring? Sexy? the Necessary Stage grabs the issues by the balls, and probes deep into Singapore's MANHOOD. Are men in Singapore getting the short end of the stick? Are they losing their marbles? Are they still on top?