Productions
2019 - Singapore
Civilised
SYNOPSIS
There is no past without colonisation,
and there is no future without it.
As we commemorate the bicentennial of the founding of Singapore, let us take a moment to express our gratitude to our founding father/s for their foresight in transforming Singapore from a small fishing village to a global metropolis. We are civilised!
Let's marvel at how, all over the world, our land has been plundered, our laws kept archaic and our freedoms curtailed by those in power. Let us honour our pursuit of economic success and excess [nothing less will do], as we continue to colonise today—through money, discrimination and land conquests, even in space. We are civilised!
Because after all, through colonisation, we are civilised! We are also schooled and silenced.
Written by Haresh Sharma and directed by Alvin Tan, Civilised by The Necessary Stage is a groundbreaking new work that takes you on a wild ride through the complications and violence of colonisation past, present and future.
PRODUCTION CREDITS
- Written By
- Haresh Sharma
- Directed By
- Alvin Tan
- Featuring
- Edith Podesta
Ghafir Akbar
Koh Wan Ching
Lian Sutton
Siti Khalijah Zainal - Dramaturg
- Melissa Lim
- Set Designer
- Vincent Lim
- Lighting Designer
- Adrian Tan
- Costume Designer
- Max Tan & Yuan Zhiying (MAX.TAN)
- Multimedia Designer
- He Shuming
- Production Stage Manager
- Azyyati Alias
Samantha Chia - Assistant Stage Manager
- Jovetta Tan (Jovy)
- Sound Operator
- Manoj Kumar
- Lighting Operators and Programmers
- Tan Yi Kai
Chia Run Jin - Lighting Technician
- Tai Zi Feng
- Multimedia Operator
- Jovyn Loh
- Lighting and Multimedia Technician
- Syahrudin Pasha Dasa
- Crew
- Ariel Lim
Cheryl Low
SCRIPT
Contact UsREVIEWS
- 16 May 2019
- Review: Civilised by The Necessary Stage
- 19 May 2019
- KUPASAN: CIVILISED OLEH THE NECESSARY STAGE
- 22 May 2019
- 快评：观 “Civilised”《文明》
- 23 May 2019
- “去殖民化”的不可能的任务
- 02 Jun 2019
- CIVILISED by The Necessary Stage
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