Toy Factory’s The Wright Stuff Festival 2019: Random Access Memory by Mark Cheong (Review)
Techno thriller collides with family drama and spells the future of humanity. What are humans if not an organic computer? With Mark Cheong’s Random Access Memory, the age-old question of what it means […]
Toy Factory’s The Wright Stuff Festival 2019: Ashes, Ashes by Rajkumar Thiagaras (Review)
Some things are better left fed to the flames. Two years ago, the Straits Times reported on the demolition of Lakshmi Villa, a generations old family home that had grown […]
Toy Factory’s The Wright Stuff Festival 2019: Permanence by Gina Chew (Review)
A party girl’s fears of a life less romantic. Marriage is terrifying. There’s good reason why people love to joke that it’s like a ball and chain, clamped to you […]
Preview: Toy Factory’s The Wright Stuff Festival 2019
If the Singapore theatre scene is to continue to grow, then it must lay the groundwork for the next generation of theatremakers to inherit it when the time comes. For […]
Review: A Silent Hour – Buskers of Singapore by Toy Factory
Bridging the distance between audiences and buskers. Toy Factory is breaking new ground this year with their outreach programme for inclusive theatre sharing, presenting brand new ways and forms of […]
Preview: A Silent Hour – Buskers of Singapore by Toy Factory
Having started off their 2019 season with Stanley Seah’s The Transition Room, Toy Factory is back again this April with a new addition to their outreach programme for inclusive theatrical sharing as […]
Review: The Transition Room by Toy Factory
Waiting rooms can feel like hell. Over the years, purgatory onstage has taken a great many forms, from the horrific to the mundane. With Stanley Seah’s The Transition Room, the […]
Toy Factory’s The Transition Room: An Interview with Stanley Seah and Goh Boon Teck
This February, Toy Factory opens their 2019 season with a brand new production. Written and directed by Toy Factory Associate Artistic Director Stanley Seah, The Transition Room will be making its premiere […]
Preview: The Transition Room by Toy Factory
Besides the announcement of the second part of their theatrical trilogy at SIFA 2019, Toy Factory will be opening their 2019 season with their all new production The Transition Room. Making the […]
Review: Watching by Toy Factory
Apprehension towards NS hints at deeper family matters. Have you ever sat on the couch and gone on a TV marathon that lasts for so long that your vision gets […]
Toy Factory’s Lab Projects 2018: An Interview with Playwright/Director Stanley Seah and Actor Jon Cancio of Watching
As part of the 2018 edition of the Lab Projects, Toy Factory presents Watching, the second new play to be staged in their home in Chinatown at NOWPlaying@17. Written and […]
Review: Oedipus (鞭爱) by Toy Factory
An innovative staging turns this twisted police procedural into a living nightmare. If there’s one play this year that should come with a warning for the faint of heart, it’s […]
Toy Factory’s Lab Projects 2018: An Interview with Playwright Zhu Xin Chen and Director Goh Boon Teck of Oedipus (鞭爱)
This week, Toy Factory productions launches into their 2018 edition of the Lab Projects, presenting brand new plays staged in their own home in Chinatown at NOWPlaying@17. In the first […]
Preview: Toy Factory’s Lab Projects 2018 – Oedipus (鞭爱) and Watching
This September and October, Toy Factory will once again be throwing open the doors of their home in Chinatown as it becomes NOWplaying@17, becoming an incubation space for new and […]
Review: Here and Beyond by Toy Factory
A Toy Factory triumph in this adaptation of the only O-Level Literature Singapore text. Adapting a piece of literature from one medium to another can be challenging. The language alone […]
Reflections on a Skyline: An Interview with Here and Beyond Director Stanley Seah and Cast Member Jolene Wong
Toy Factory is having an incredibly busy year – they’ve already staged three brand new productions in 2018, ranging from epic hundred year musical to loving comedy tribute, and all […]
