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Preview: The Spirits Play by The Finger Players

The Finger Players bring back local theatre legend Kuo Pao Kun’s undying classic The Spirits Play this October as part of their Contemporary Classics season. The Spirits Play follows five Japanese spirits as they attempt to recollect and organize their jumbled memories from their life living and dying in the Second World War. As they slowly recall the atrocities and horrors of war, they become increasingly troubled and shocked by … Continue reading Preview: The Spirits Play by The Finger Players

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Preview: Poop! by The Finger Players

“When is life worth living; when is death worth celebrating?” Last staged in 2010, The Finger Players are bringing back Chong Tze Chien’s Poop! as part of their Contemporary Classics season. With a cute title like Poop!, the last thing you’d expect from this play is an incredibly moving reflection and depiction of death and bereavement, as a father commits suicide, his wife grieves, their daughter wonders and his mother laughs. … Continue reading Preview: Poop! by The Finger Players

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Review: ITSY The Musical by The Finger Players

In a world where childhood fairy tales are constantly being adapted into darker, grittier versions for film, it was inevitable that someone would eventually do the same for nursery rhymes. Enter The Finger Players’ first show of the season: ITSY The Musical, which does just that, taking some of your favourite nursery rhymes you learnt as a kid and bringing them to life in this grown up musical. … Continue reading Review: ITSY The Musical by The Finger Players

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Preview: ITSY by The Finger Players

The Finger Players opens their 2017 season with one of the biggest productions to date, held at the historic and gorgeous Victoria Theatre in an epic musical about the powerful bond between family members and filled with the nostalgia of nursery rhymes. Itsy takes place in a world of nursery rhymes gone dark where Little Miss Muffet’s Itsy Bitsy spider (the ever charming Broadway Beng Sebastian Tan) … Continue reading Preview: ITSY by The Finger Players

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Preview: The Finger Players 2017 Season

Bilingual theatre company The Finger Players make a smashing return to their roots this season with not one but three plays that highlight their history in puppetry, with an all new musical by Chong Tze Chien and restagings of both a classic piece from Kuo Pao Kun and a modern, heartbreaking classic often considered the Finger Players’ best. Itsy The Musical Itsy takes on the world … Continue reading Preview: The Finger Players 2017 Season

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