Productions
2022 - Singapore
Acting Mad
SYNOPSIS
Mental illness does not discriminate. Although there is more access to information, many still suffer silently or face stigma when they come out with their illness. What is this experience like for actors in Singapore? Are they expected to just deal with their mental health issues because they are seen as ‘tortured artists’ and ‘so full of drama’?
In 2019, The Necessary Stage presented Acting Mad, a verbatim play based on interviews with 20 actors who have experienced or are going through mental health issues.
This iteration, specially commissioned by Esplanade for The Studios 2022, incorporates new interview texts and testimonies, as well as actors’ responses to the pandemic and its impact on them.
Can sharing our stories, and creating theatre, be a form of solace and support?
PRODUCTION CREDITS
- Playwright
- Haresh Sharma
- Director
- Haresh Sharma
- Assistant Director
- Deonn Yang
- Cast
- Ghafir Akbar
Karen Tan
Tan Guo Lian Sutton
Masturah Oli - Text by
- Harris Albar
Maryam Noorhimli
Haresh Sharma - Choreographer
- Edith Podesta
- Assistant Choreographer
- Ryan Ang
- Dramaturg
- Sindhura Kalidas
- Researcher
- Arielle Jasmine Van Zuijlen
- Support Facilitator
- Rosie McGowan
- Set Designer
- Vincent Lim
- Lighting Designer
- Yo Shao Ann
- Sound Designer
- Te Hao Boon
- Multimedia Designer
- M. Nurfadhli Jasni
- Multimedia Consultant
- Brian Gothong Tan
- Project Manager
- Nicole Lim
- Production Manager
- Celestine Wong
- Stage Manager
- Tennie Su
- Assistant Stage Manager
- Natalie Wong
- Costume Coordinator
- Lim Zhiying
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