Productions
2021 - Singapore
The Year of No Return
SYNOPSIS
Every day, we are inundated with dire consequences of the climate emergency.
In the face of this threat to humanity, what do we do? Recycle? Switch to environmentally-friendly products? Be a vegan? Stop having children? What can we do—and do our actions even matter?
Why do we have such different responses to climate change? What makes one a denialist, or another to commit acts of civil disobedience in the name of climate justice?
Can we as individuals, and collectively, affect change? Or will politics and profit dictate the fate of this planet—our only home?
A ground-breaking interdisciplinary collaboration with artists from Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore, The Year of No Return by Singapore theatre company The Necessary Stage seeks to unravel the complications and contradictions in humanity’s responses to climate change. This hybrid production incorporating live performance and video presentation seeks to question whether we live in an age of despair—or one of hope in the dark.
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In-Theatre Performances: 21 — 22 May 2021
Video On-Demand: 5 – 12 June 2021
PRODUCTION CREDITS
- Co-Writer
- Haresh Sharma
Rody Vera - Director
- Alvin Tan
- Main Cast
- Chihiro Hirai
Marco Viaña
Rody Vera
Siti Khalijah Zainal
Sukania Venugopal
Tan Guo Lian Sutton - Ensemble
- Ariel Lim
Ezzafatin Aslam
Isaac Lim Jue Hao
Jaclyn Magdalene Rajendran
Rajkumar Thiagaras
Jovetta Tan (Jovy) - Dancers
- Edina Handali
Jereh Leong - Voiceover Actor
- Karen Tan
- Dramaturg
- Melissa Lim
- Choreographer and Movement Director
- Goh Shou Yi
- Set Designer
- Wong Chee Wai
- Lighting Designer
- Yo Shao Ann
- Sound Designer and Composer
- Ng Jing
- Costume Designer
- MAX.TAN
- Multimedia Designer
- Jasmine Ng
- Multimedia Co-Designer
- Hanafi Haffidz
- Production Stage Manager
- Samantha Chia
- Assistant Stage Manager
- Jovetta Tan (Jovy)
Nadya Gerhard - Sound Operator
- Muhammad Taufiq Bin Sawal
- Multimedia Operator
- Christer Jon Aplin
- Lighting Operator and Programmer
- Yvonne Mok
- Motion Graphics Team
- Erica Tan
Chua Khai Xin
Lee Jing Wei - Production Intern
- Manisha Devdas Sawlani
- Project Manager
- Nicole Lim
SCRIPT
Contact UsPREVIEWS
- 05 Dec 2019
- ST Life - Four new works by Singapore companies headline Singapore International Festival of Arts 2020
- 12 Dec 2019
- SG Magazine - Catch 4 exciting shows by local theatre troupes at SIFA 2020, returning next May
- 26 Feb 2020
- ST Life - Swinging to an arty start
- 24 Mar 2020
- ST Life - Coronavirus: Singapore International Festival of Arts postponed indefinitely, War Horse cancelled
- 12 May 2021
- Tropika Magazine - Coming Back From The Year of No Return—In Conversation with Haresh Sharma
- 13 May 2019
- ST Life - Four home-grown commissions for SIFA next year [PRINT]
- 23 Apr 2021
- ST Life - The Year of No Return [PRINT]
- 17 May 2021
- The Straits Times - Blow to arts scenes comeback as some anticipated shows get canned [ PRINT]
- 22 May 2021
- The Business Times - SIFA 2021 Diminished but not defeated [PRINT]
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