Category: Theatres

Arts, Esplanade Theatre Studio, Experimental, Review, Singapore, Singapore Arts, Theatre., The Necessary Stage, Theatre, Theatres

The Studios 2017: With/Out (Review)

How do you remember a life? In 1999, The Necessary Stage presented Completely With/Out Character, where Singapore’s first openly HIV-positive man, Paddy Chew, performed a true, heartfelt monologue about his life, unfortunately passing away a few months after the end of the production. For those who have never heard of Paddy Chew however, his story remains unknown to them, and the chance to feel and experience it … Continue reading The Studios 2017: With/Out (Review)

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Preview: La Cage Aux Folles by W!ld Rice

W!ld Rice is starting off the year with a bang, with a restaging of Harvey Fierstein’s La Cage Aux Folles, last staged at the Esplanade by W!ld Rice in 2012. Winning the 2013 Life! Theatre Award for Production of the Year, La Cage will once again feature Ivan Heng in the lead role as Albin – a family man by day, lascivious drag extraordinaire Zaza by night, … Continue reading Preview: La Cage Aux Folles by W!ld Rice

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Preview: With/Out [The Studios 2017]

In 1999, The Necessary Stage worked with Singapore’s first openly HIV-positive person Paddy Chew to devise a monologue titled Completely With/Out Character, depicting Paddy’s experiences. Though well received, Paddy passed on a few months after the production, and few works since have so openly dealt with the condition of living with HIV. More than a decade later, Loo Zihan revisits the work, reinterpreting Paddy’s monologue and reconceptualising the … Continue reading Preview: With/Out [The Studios 2017]

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Arts, Chinese Theatre, Esplanade Theatre Studio, Nine Years Theatre, Review, Singapore, Singapore Arts, Theatre., The Necessary Stage, Theatre, Theatre Companies, Theatres

Review: Fundamentally Happy by Nine Years Theatre [Studios 2017]

Wait a minute, a collaboration between Nine Years Theatre and Haresh Sharma? You didn’t just misread that. First presented in 2006 by The Necessary Stage in its original English language, Fundamentally Happy has since bagged Best Production and Best Original Script at the 2007 ST Life Theatre Awards and is still making its rounds on the big screen via the 2015 film adaptation by 13 … Continue reading Review: Fundamentally Happy by Nine Years Theatre [Studios 2017]

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Review: Family Secrets by The Necessary Stage

From the schoolyard to a dementia day care center- The Necessary Stage has definitely been busy! In addition to their recent production of the classic Those Who Can’t, Teach, TNS continues its 30th anniversary celebrations during that very same weekend with Family Secrets, a Theatre For Seniors double-bill centered around the elderly and their families. In this restaging, Cultural Medallion winner and playwright Haresh Sharma … Continue reading Review: Family Secrets by The Necessary Stage

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Arts, KC Arts Centre, Review, Singapore, Singapore Arts, Theatre., SRT, Theatre, Theatre Companies, Theatres

Review: Constellations by Singapore Repertory Theatre

Having received critical acclaim when it played on Broadway, we were very excited about the premiere of Constellations in Singapore. Written by Nick Payne in 2012, Constellations is a love story set across parallel worlds in a multiverse, where protagonists Roland and Marianne engage with a series of possibilities and alternate realities. Roland (Edward Harrison) is an inhibited and introverted beekeeper, surrounded by creatures with a singular purposes in … Continue reading Review: Constellations by Singapore Repertory Theatre

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Arts, London, Review, The Old Vic, Theatre, Theatres

Review: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at The Old Vic

50 years ago, Tom Stoppard became an overnight sensation when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead first premiered. The Old Vic plunges straight into its 2017 season with a welcome return to this absurdist play focusing on the two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet who meet their untimely doom over the course of the play. One of the biggest draws to this production of course, is its … Continue reading Review: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at The Old Vic

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Review: Those Who Can’t, Teach by The Necessary Stage

Over the last 30 years, The Necessary Stage has established itself as one of the foremost Singaporean theatre companies, producing seminal works that send across a strong social message, thanks to the work of Alvin Tan and Haresh Sharma. Of their productions, Those Who Can’t, Teach stands out as one of their classics. Originally staged in 1990 before receiving a restaging in 2010, Those Who Can’t, Teach celebrates … Continue reading Review: Those Who Can’t, Teach by The Necessary Stage

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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: Esplanade’s The Studios: Margins

The Esplanade’s 2017 Season of the Studios is titled Margins, and will feature four plays by The Necessary Stage’s Haresh Sharma, as various other artists tackle his long and illustrious history of works. Check it out this March and April, and here’s a glimpse of what’s in store: Fundamentally Happy Nelson Chia takes on this award-winning script by giving it the Nine Years Theatre treatment and … Continue reading Preview: Esplanade’s The Studios: Margins

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