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Showing 43 programmes for 1990—94
Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder (SPH Young Playwrights Series 1)
“If you forget somebody, that somebody will forget all about you.” – Robin Loon, Playwright Presented as part of the SPH Young Playwrights Series 1.
Cetecea & Breaking Through (Double Bill) (SPH Young Playwrights Series 2)
Presented as part of the SPH Young Playwrights Series 2.
The Complete Space Traveller’s Guide To Singapore (Abridged)
Ever wondered how this wonderful island-state of ours will be like in the 21st century?
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 6 (1994)
At these readings, the works are read by experienced actors, and through these readings, the playwrights receive feedback from the audience, actors, and director.
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 2 (The Free Voice) (1991)
The individual voices of writers splinter into conflicting characters in new plays-in-progress by the Writers’ Lab.
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 1 (1991)
The writers in TheatreWorks’ Writers’ Lab will be presenting two programmes comprising monologues and other works-in-progress.
Undercover
‘Undercover’ is a farce about ambition and ego. It highlights one very basic human flaw – the inability to trust other people, and the need to exert one’s power over another.
Molissa Fenley: Contemporary Dance From New York
Molissa Fenley is a startlingly original choreographer and performer whose works combine an eclectic background with astonishing physical energies to create a uniquely personal dance style.
Mergers and Accusations (SPH Young Playwrights Series 2)
From SPH Young Playwrights Series 2.
Madame Mao’s Memories (1992)
A picture of life in prison with the woman who enslaved China in order to liberate herself. Through the medium of a one-woman show, it is a portrait of a human being, of facts combined with imagination.
Three Fat Virgins Unassembled (SPH Young Playwrights Series 1) (1992)
Virgins. Cherished when they’re 16, discarded when they’re 40. Society plays up our worst fantasies and prejudice. How do women handle this outrage, salvage their self-image, or wallop their oppressors?
Scorpion Orchid
For the first time, the racial chaos that shook Singapore in the 1950’s will be put directly and dramatically on stage.
Longing
longing is like opium, living on the verge
longing is much more beautiful than reality
Light In The Village
Imagine a poor village in the east that has no electricity and no clean water.
Embarquez-Les
Humour stripped of cheap circus tricks, a set reduced to its bare essentials, subtlety and excess all at once, this is clown acting of a new kind… delicious and stunningly fresh.
A Night Out With Michael Chiang — Love & Belachan, Beauty Box And Heaven II (Triple Bill)
A Triple Bill of performances written by Michael Chiang.
Watching The Clouds Go By (Directors’ Laboratory)
Audience participation is a feature of the Directors’ Laboratory — the audience is encouraged to provide feedback and suggestions on the staging of the play.
Under The Bed
ROMANCE. A word that conjures words of meaning. A word of sublime significance, indicating ideas of release and capture.
The Way Of Violence (Directors’ Laboratory)
Violence – in order to understand and to overcome violence in our lives… we must first be aware of it.
The Four Trunks (Directors’ Laboratory)
Four people build a SCARECROW to protect themselves from DANGER. But the SCARECROW becomes very powerful and turns against the very people who created it.
Sammy Won’t Go To School (Directors’ Laboratory)
Sammy won’t go to school. Jimmy, his doting father, tells him that school’s a wonderful place to be.
Lao Jiu
Lao Jiu, the ninth child and only son of the family, is of outstanding intelligence and carries the hopes of his parents and siblings. Alas, to his family’s disappointment, he abandons his scholastic pursuits for his love of the traditional art form of hand puppetry.
Private Parts
Private Parts centres on a successful yuppie talk-show host, Warren Lee, and the private lives of two transsexuals.
Trip To The South
Ten family members hit the long road to Manila in high spirits. They’re heading south for their father’s funeral.
Theatre Games
Welcome to our compendium of theatre games — your evening of entertainment, fun and laughter set in the Black Box.
The Trojan Women
The play opens at dawn after the sacking of Troy by the Greeks in the famous Wooden Horse episode. The Trojan women are gathered together in grief and fear.
Madame Mao’s Memories
A picture of life in prison with the woman who enslaved China in order to liberate herself. Through the medium of a one-woman show, it is a portrait of a human being, of facts combined with imagination.
Mad Forest
New beginnings are thwarted, fear and weakness prevail, and the real truths of the December revolution are discovered.
Fried Rice Paradise
The owner of a famous fried rice chain hopes to retire, but her two daughters are sworn enemies and refuse to run the business together. A contest is set up to determine the successor of Fried Rice Paradise.
M. Butterfly
A play based on the relationship between French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu, a Peking opera singer.
Long Green Socks
Three women in an old folks’ home cope with their bleak reality in their own ways. This equilibrium is maintained until the illusion begins to overtake truth.
Theatre Carnival On The Hill
This theatre carnival is a ‘people festival’ based on the carnival concept, designed for a fresh audience, who will be introduced to youthful, exuberant theatre and new ways of enjoying themselves.
Beauty World (1992)
A musical melodrama about the adventures of a small town girl in the big city of Singapore in the mid-sixties.
Alter Art: A Multimedia Presentation Of Dance, Art Video
Diverse Malaysian artists – choreographers, dancers, actors, singers, video artists, visual artists, installation artists, performance artists – from Five Arts Centre collaborate with Theatreworks in this explosion of established definitions of dance and visual arts.
David Hwang Festival — The Dance And The Railroad & The Sound Of A Voice (Double Bill)
A historical piece of two railroad workers in the Sierra Nevada mountains, based on the Chinese Railroad Workers’ Strike of 1867.
Lao Jiu (1994)
Using a multitude of art forms including traditional Hokkien glove puppetry, shadow puppetry, Chinese Opera and martial arts, Lao Jiu brings to life the clash of East and West cultures, the merging of the old and the new and the breakdown of the family unit.
The Lady Of Soul And Her Ultimate ‘S’ Machine
A political satire about a government which decides that a nation needs more ‘soul’ to make it a more vibrant place.
Three Children (1992)
Three young people — two sisters and a brother — are troubled by fear and guilt, harking back to their past. They decide to return to their childhood home in Kappan Road to encounter the fount of their troubles.
Ozone
An earthy, comic, vaudevillean play, Ozone fuses the traditional street theatre of wayang clowns with modern, vogue designs and futuristic new-age music.
The Retrospective: A Festival Of Singapore Plays 1960–1990
A festival of Singapore plays from the years 1960 to 1990, ‘Retrospective’ is held in recognition of the playwright’s role in the national dramatic fabric.
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The Complete Space Traveller’s Guide To Singapore (Abridged)
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Three Fat Virgins Unassembled (SPH Young Playwrights Series 1) (1992)
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A Night Out With Michael Chiang — Love & Belachan, Beauty Box And Heaven II (Triple Bill)
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