Artistic Director's Message
Alvin Tan

Singapore needs her artistes. Those who have chosen to stay on in Singapore and struggled with the Arts development ought to be thanked and recognised for their foresight and sacrifice. It is these few who stayed on who should be awarded for their efforts. They have inspired the mushroom of new and significant theatre companies in recent years.

Artistes need to be in touch with a base, with a home. Artistes and Country—a curious relationship which challenge and enrich, always at some tension, yet needing each other, needing to belong to yet some plot of land.