The Finger Players x Joe Louis Theatre Company: WIP Presentation

42WS Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street S187951 42WS Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street S187951, Singapore, Singapore

A myth. An insatiable desire for blood. A beautiful-looking woman with supernatural abilities to detach her head. The Finger Players and Joe Louis Theatre Company present a WIP puppetry presentation that depicts different interpretations of the infamous folklores Krasue and Penanggalan. This horrifying yet beautiful two-part showcase combines contemporary and traditional elements of puppetry. It is part of Phase […]

$10

Oleanna

42WS Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street S187951 42WS Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street S187951, Singapore, Singapore

“You. Do. Not. Have. The. Power.” Carol, a college student, approaches her professor for help with her classwork. A seemingly innocuous consultation session explodes into a series of accusations and altercations about elitism, education, and sexual harassment. Presented by The Windland Collective and Major Minor Encounters, David Mamet's Oleanna remains as complex and controversial as […]

$30

Playwrights Breaking Things

42WS Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street S187951 42WS Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street S187951, Singapore, Singapore

The four writers of Centre 42’s Playwright's Professional Development Residency have spent the past couple of months reading, writing, and thinking about what it means to break things: old habits, the fear of writing, new ground, comfortable forms… even the play itself. How do they break with familiar ways of entering and exploring a play, and what […]

Free

TOOLS: A Workshop Series for Playwrights Exploring Theatricality – Magic Props

42WS Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street S187951 42WS Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street S187951, Singapore, Singapore

This workshop investigates the remapping process, where one thing stands in for another and real-world elements correspond with their stage-space equivalents. What happens when a stick becomes a gun or a house is described as an imaginary zone? We’ll examine the audience’s role in recognizing these substitutions and experiment with how to teach them to […]

$30 – $50

Queering the Play: A Very Specific Timeline from One Gay Jew

42WS Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street S187951 42WS Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street S187951, Singapore, Singapore

What makes a play queer? Must it feature primarily queer characters? Does it necessarily centre on timeless queer narratives— coming out, oppression, political change? Or is it enough that the play, like all queers, tries to find a new way of seeing and being in the world— a play that builds theatrical worlds that resist […]

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