The process of staging Mixed began sometime at the end of October 2016. Raemae (Kok) was one of the winners of the Theatreworks 24 Hour Playwriting competition and her play was chosen for the Performance Tour! part of the Writing and Community program by Theatreworks. It culminated in a performance touring the South East District from 23 […]
Read more "Mixed (2017), Theatreworks Process Reflection and Archive"In this relation, the process by which Ōta and his group devised this theatre piece should be explained. Instead of writing a complete script, Ōta decided on the content of the scenes and their sequence and then chose artistic materials appropriate for those scenes to stimulate the imagination of the actors. These source materials were […]
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Now Then Again really spoke to my heart when I read it, when I read it. Here was a beautiful (and smart) love story about two human beings challenged with the burden of choice. Yet, in the mysterious world of quantum physics, choice is just one possibility. In quantum physics, there is always an opposite […]
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I’m really excited to be directing another show for the NUS Arts Festival. This time, it’s a work by Penny Penniston called Now Then Again.
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I got a call from Liansheng sometime in January 2015. Last I had worked with Liansheng was as an actor for The Boy Inside. This time, he asked if I wanted to direct the NUS Arts Festival opening show featuring Jeremy Monteiro. He was writing text around jazz favorites. The show would be called Words […]
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