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Insomnia 48
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Private Parts
Theatre Carnival On The Hill
The Continuum Asia Project (2003)
The Cutting Edge (No, Not The Arts Festival) The Morning Star Project: Lucifer, Whisper, Composition B and The Blue Fish
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She Ain’t Heavy, She’s Reaching Into Space (Open Rehearsal) (April 2016)
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Broken Birds: An Epic Longing
Descendants Of The Eunuch Admiral (1995)
Off Kilter
Mixed Signals (1997)
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Geisha
24-Hr Playwriting Competition (2010)
The Flying Circus Project – Platform 01: Expo Zero (Musee de la Danse) (2009)
Three Children (1992)
Miss Julie
50/50
Three Children (1988)
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 2 (The Free Voice) (1991)
Goldfish Is Meant For Dying
The Flying Circus Project (1998)
Trip To The South
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 1 (1991)
The Roundest Circle
Lao Jiu (1993)
National Broadway Company
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Beauty World (10th Anniversary Production) (Apr 1998)
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2001)
The Maids & Diary Of A Madman (Double Bill)
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Mixed (2017)
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Descendants Of The Eunuch Admiral (1996)
Army Daze (1995)
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Grey Matters
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Alter Art: A Multimedia Presentation Of Dance, Art Video
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Theatre Games
Nowhere Man
The Gift
Army Daze (The Film) (1996)
like the cat sitting on the edge of an ocean of milk, hoping to lap it all up (2006)
Embarquez-Les
The Silver River (2001)
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 6 (1994)
The Four Trunks (Directors’ Laboratory)
Be My Sushi Tonight
Pop Friction
A Wonderful Weekend
Geisha (2006)
Writers’ Lab – Charging Up Memory Lane: 30 Plays In 30 Days (2001)
Goldfish Is Meant For Dying
Lear (Jan-Feb 1999)
Holier Then How
M. Butterfly
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 7 (1995)
She Ain’t Heavy, She’s Reaching Into Space (July 2016)
Dapunta Hyang: Transmission Of Knowledge
Singapore Young Dramatist Awards 2000
Beauty World (Feb 1998)
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Diaspora (2009)
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Shanty – Follow That Dream
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Paradise Heights
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Madame Mao’s Memories (1991)
Play On Earth
Army Daze (The Film) (1996)
The Cutting Edge (No, Not The Arts Festival) The Morning Star Project: Lucifer, Whisper, Composition B and The Blue Fish
LIFT: Love Is Flower The
Reservoir
Not Afraid To Remember
Dance Dance Dance
The Gift
Love Love Remote Control (Work-In-Progress)
The Continuum Asia Project (2003)
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hr Playwriting Competition (1999)
Three Children (1992)
Geisha
Serunding (2010-2011)
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Fanshen
Light In The Village
Haunted
Retrospective
The Flying Circus Project (2000)
Wills And Secession
The Way Of Violence (Directors’ Laboratory)
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Between Consciousness
Bima Labuh
like the cat sitting on the edge of an ocean of milk, hoping to lap it all up (2006)
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Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Three Inches Of Alive
The Cutting Edge (No, Not The Arts Festival) The Yang Family
Kantan & Hanjo (Double Bill)
RE/PLAY Dance Edit
Fried Rice Paradise
Theatre Games
Diary Of A Madwoman
RPM (Revolution-Per-Minute)
Nachtgesichter: Visions Of The Night
National Broadway Company
The First Emperor’s Last Days
Insomnia@ICA, The Singapore Season, London
Machine
Dance For Nothing
Long Green Socks
Insomnia 48
The Flying Circus Project (1998)
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Marco Polo
The Flying Circus Project – Platform 01: Expo Zero (Musee de la Danse) (2009)
Six Of The Best
Lao Jiu (1997)
Space Monkeys
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 1 (1991)
24-Hr Playwriting Competition (2010)
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 2 (The Free Voice) (1991)
Destinies Of Flowers In The Mirror
Friends’ Season
Beauty World (1992)
The Happiness Event
Mergers and Accusations (SPH Young Playwrights Series 2)
Dust: A Recollection
TLAB
The Reunification Of The Two Koreas
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2001)
Longing
GALA
120
Descendants Of The Eunuch Admiral (1995)
On Mercury’s Wings
Piaf
Beauty World
Metamorphosis
She Ain’t Heavy, She’s Reaching Into Space (Open Rehearsal) (April 2016)
The Silver River (2001)
Comrade Mayor
In Transit (2003)
Grey Matters
Molissa Fenley
Lao Jiu (1994)
Watching The Clouds Go By (Directors’ Laboratory)
Search: Hamlet
The Cutting Edge (No, Not The Arts Festival) Hand Made Tales
The Retrospective: A Festival Of Singapore Plays 1960 – 1990
Awaking
Descendants Of The Eunuch Admiral
Because, The Night
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2002)
Incarnation Of The Beast
Three Children (1988)
Drift Net
Monkey Business
Sammy Won’t Go To School (Directors’ Laboratory)
Hot Dogs And Eternal Triangles
Indulgence
Scorpion Orchid
The Flying Circus Project (2004)
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2010)
Meena And Me
The Lady Of Soul And Her Ultimate ‘S’ Machine
Diaspora (2006)
Goh Lay Kuan & Kuo Pao Kun
N.O.W. – Not Ordinary Work (2019)
Pulse
The Roundest Circle
Lao Jiu (1993)
Miss Julie
Sandakan Threnody (June 2004)
Undercover
Lim Tzay Chuen
Eloquence
Vivien & The Shadows
A Night Out With Michael Chiang – Love & Belachan, Beauty Box And Heaven II (Triple Bill)
like the cat sitting on the edge of an ocean of milk, hoping to lap it all up (2005)
Desdemona (2001)
Lear
Ang Tau Mui, A Modern Woman
Pan Island Expressway
Broken Birds: An Epic Longing
Theatre Carnival On The Hill
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (Oct 2001)
Residency – María José Arjona – Irregular Hexagon
Descendants Of The Eunuch Admiral (1996)
Ma: Moment
Mixed Signals (1997)
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Mixed (2017)
Ozone
Fever Room (Curators Academy)
Fear Of Writing
Mortal Sins
Army Daze (1987)
Beauty World (10th Anniversary Production) (Apr 1998)
13.13.13
Ballroom Dancing
Got To Go… Play Till Dawn
The Flying Circus Project (2013)
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 5 (1993)
Alter Art: A Multimedia Presentation Of Dance, Art Video
like the cat sitting on the edge of an ocean of milk, hoping to lap it all up
SPH Festival Of New Writing (1996)
The Flying Circus Project (1996)
Three Fat Virgins Unassembled (1995)
Off Kilter
Writer’s Lab – 24-Hr Playwriting Competition (1996)
Night Festival – New World 2010
Lear Dreaming
Embarquez-Les
Mixed Signals (1989)
VISTA Lab 2.0 – Interference
Fourplays: ABCD
Desdemona
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: The Good Farmer (2018)
Army Daze (1995)
Under The Volcano
Dreamkeepers: Avenue Of Dream & Second Chance (Double Bill)
Private Parts
David Hwang Festival: The Dance And The Railroad & The Sound Of A Voice (Double Bill)
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 6 (1994)
Nay Nai
Rashomon
The Diary Of Alice
50/50
Nowhere Man
VISTA Lab 1.0 – Impetus
A.I.
The Maids & Diary Of A Madman (Double Bill)
Trip To The South
The Spirits Play
Half Lives
24-Hr Playwriting Competition (2003)
The Global Soul
Us In Singapore
Workhorse Afloat
Three Fat Virgins Unassembled (SPH Young Playwrights Series 1) (1992)
Da Vinci Project
Safe Sex: As If He Hears & Jackson On A Jaunt (Double Bill)
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The Spirits Play


Key Words

Amnesia, Archival Material, Bathhouse, Boomers, Bunker, Forgetfulness, Ghost, Haunting, Island, Memory, Mythic Animals, Perversion, Poet, Sex Fantasy Club, Six Movements, Sound Artist, Spirit, Strange House, Ugliness of Humanity, World War II,


About

Four spirits in a ruined fort on an island spend fifty years in forgetfulness. Then they hear another spirit, that of the Poet, and memories begin to stir… don’t expect the literal.



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Geopolitics
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Historical Theatre
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Poetry
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Satire
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Singapore Writing
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Theatre
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Location:>
The Battle Box, Singapore, Singapore
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Victoria Theatre, Singapore, Singapore
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Date:>
17 - 19 August 2001
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25 - 26 August 2001
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Concept & Director:
Ong Keng Sen
,
.
Writer:
Kuo Pao Kun
,
.
Light Design:
Lea Shao
,
.
Costume Design:
Elfa
,
Leo
,
.
Performers:
Janice Koh
,
Jeremiah Choy
,
Karen Tan
,
Lok Meng Chue
,
Low Kee Hong
,
Sharon Lim
,
.
Curated Artists:
Atsushi Nishijima
,
Bubu
,
Grinder Man
,
Yoshiko Shimada
,
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Visiting Artists:
Helen Herbertson
,
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Producer:
Tay Tong.
Technical Management:
Lennie Lee, Marc Andre Therrien, Paul Birger Sorensen, Roslan bin Mohammad, Roy Lee.
Production Management:
Valerie Oliveiro, Vivian Lee.
Stage Management::
Annie Yim, Melissa Pang, Valerie Oliveiro.
Stage Crew:
Clair Allan, Ng Huiling.
Translator:
Toshi Suzuki.
Promotion & Publicity:
Traslin Ong.
Front of House:
Audrey Sim, Janice Pono.
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