Theatre For Youth and Community 2013

In September 1992, Artistic Director of The Necessary Stage Alvin Tan established the Theatre for Youth Branch, which was later renamed in 2002 as Theatre for Youth and Community (TFYC) Branch.

Since our inception, TFYC has reached to more than 1,000,000 students through school assemblies, interactive Theatre-in-Education programmes, customised workshops and process-based drama programmes. TFYC has also been featured in Esplanade's Feed Your Imagination series as part of the National Arts Council's Arts Excursion Programme, offering high quality, thought-provoking productions that provide students an all-rounded educational theatre experience.

Under the TFYC Branch, we have also embarked on successful partnerships with corporations, non-governmental organisations, statutory boards and government ministries to present works dealing with specific issues to the public.

From 2008-2011, the Company also launched the Theatre For Seniors, a programme geared towards training participants in various aspects of theatre-making. The project was supported by the Council for 3rd Age, Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple and the National Arts Council.

We believe that theatre must grow out of the community, and therefore pay close attention to issues that concern young people and education. Our programmes are developed from research, detailed planning and consultation because we believe that students can benefit fully through programmes that are relevant to their lives, and which involve theoretical and hands-on learning.

We believe that theatre is not meant to be simply a high-brow affair for the wealthy and intellectual - it is a language that each of us have the right to learn and speak, in order to release and to make sense of the world.