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BEACON: PHASE 1
8 - 12 Feb 2023
Presented by The Opera People
Director: Edith Podesta
Venue: Esplanade Annexe Studio
The Opera People present a performance-workshop of our first ever full length opera commission: Beacon, composed by Jonathan Shin with a libretto by Joel Tan, and directed by Edith Podesta.
Klara, a scientist, embarks on a mission of a lifetime, journeying into outer space in search of a beacon, and the culmination of her life’s work. She is haunted by her abandonment of her partner Phoebe, an English professor. Onboard her vessel, Klara is tended to by a sentient AI named Wisdom and joined by two other scientists, Malachi and Antony, each with their own motives and entanglements. Her quest leads her deep into space and deeper into the mysteries of love, memory, and the yearnings that make us truly human.
In this workshop performance, presented as part of The Opera People’s Young Bards young artist series, hear excerpts of the opera performed by Kira Lim, Phoebe Chee, Rebecca Reavley, Zachary Dominguez, and Jonathan Charles Tay, accompanied my musicians from Wayfarer Sinfonietta, and conducted by Lien Boon Hua. The performance will be followed by a conversation and feedback session with Jonathan Shin and Joel Tan.
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GELEK: CORPOREAL FOOTPRINTS AND PROJECTING IDENTITY
12 - 13 Oct 2023
Presented by Gelek
Choreographed by Bib Mockram, Syarifuddin Sahari, Lyn Hanis Rezuan, Shahrul Azhar Marekan, Afiq Noorazwa, & Syimah Sabtu
Venue: Stamford Arts Centre Black Box
Triple Bill 1: Corporeal Footprints
This group regards the attributes of the environment as stimuli for exploration and disruption.
Triple Bill 2: Projecting Identity
This group explores the introspection of identit(ies) and the futurity it provokes and invokes.
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LA SONNAMBULA
1 - 3 Sept 2023
Presented by The Opera People
Director: Edith Podesta
Venue: Wild Rice @ Funan
The Opera People present the Singapore premiere of Vincenzo Bellini’s La sonnambula (The Sleepwalker).
In a luxury hotel, the staff gathers to celebrate the wedding of Amina and Elvino – she, an orphan raised by the hotel’s owner; he, a rich landowner. The celebrations are interrupted by the arrival of a visitor, Rodolfo, who isn’t all he claims to be. As the night unfolds, Rodolfo discovers that Amina has been hiding a secret condition. What ensues, is the unravelling of the deep frictions that have been bubbling under the surface.
Directed by Edith Podesta and featuring a cast of Singapore’s finest singers including Renata Hann Sungwon and Felicia Teo Kaixin as Amina, Jonathan Charles Tay as Elvino, Phoebe Chee as Lisa and Shawn Riccardo Liew as Rodolfo. Together with Wayfarer Sinfonietta led by Lien Boon Hua, this bold new take on La sonnambula is a masterful exploration of love, loss and community.
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THE PAISEH PIECES
8 - 12 Feb 2023
Presented by The Second Breakfast Company
Director: Adeeb Fazah
Venue: Wisma Geylang Serai
Three besties on the precipice of adulthood find themselves in difficult situations. Tobias, a struggling theatre actor, can't seem to catch a break. Rina dreams of a future bigger than her modest background. Meanwhile, Sara seems to have everything going for her, but is it all too good to be true? The trio navigate the pains of growing up in Singapore and along the way, find out what it takes to get their life together… or at least try to.
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MAKE HANTUS GREAT AGAIN
28 - 30 Oct 2022
Presented by Teater Ekamatra
Director: Rizman Putra
Venue: Wild Rice @ Funan
Make Hantus Great Again is a satirical, supernatural, and political comedy. It follows the second ever General Elections of the Convention of Metaphysical Entities (COME), the national administrative body (and support group) for Singapore’s population of hantus (ghosts), pontianaks, vampires, jiang shis, and other supernatural beings. Each race sends forth a candidate, each with their own crazed agenda. Will the vampires bring an orgy of anarchy? Will the jinn impose their own brand of magical dictatorship? Or will the ghosts… make hantus great again? That’s for the audience to decide as their vote will determine the result of the most important elections of their lives… and afterlives.
 A Litany of Broken Prayer and Promise by Indumathi Tamilselvan |  ...dan tiga dara terbang ke bulan by Hidayat Nordin |  Chip Nak Cakap, Chip tak Nampak by Kaykay Nizam |
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 Rishyashringa: Virgin Boy by Hemang Yadev |  Pisang Ahmad Berbuah Lagi by Hazwan Norly |  ...and the Cat by Saleem Hadi |
 Jodoh by Adi Jamaludin |  Aku Anak Melayu Too by Fadhil Daud |
TUNJUK ARAH/ இயக்குனர்
11, 12, 18, 19 March 2022
Supported by Teater Ekamatra & Centre 42
Venue: Centre 42
Directors:
Hemang Yadev
Indumathi Tamilselvan
Hazwan Norly
Kaykay Nizam
Saleem Hadi
Hidayat Nordin
Adi Jamaludin
Fadhil Daud
Tunjuk Arah/ இயக்குனர் is a developmental programme for directors of Malay and Indian theatre.
As a culmination to the programme, Directors will be presenting either a 20min dramatised reading or a theatrical essay adapted from a script of their choice. The presentation will be followed by a dialogue with the audience, where other than sharing their learnings and processes, the directors will also be practising strategies on how to garner the right feedback for their process.
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THE ESSENTIAL PLAYLIST
12 - 15 January 2022
Presented by The Second Breakfast Company
Director Adeeb Fazah
Venue: Esplanade Theatre Studio
Commissioned by M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2022
In post-COVID-19 times, a group of millennial comedy content creators hopes to seriously review and revamp their brand image to take on more social issues. Staggering teams in their rented office space, they pitch content ideas for a new series called The Essential Playlist, combining human feature vignettes, thought experiments and fictionalisations of real-world encounters of and with essential workers in Singapore.
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FIKA AND FISHY
14 February - 1 March 2020
Presented by Patch and Punnet
Director: Krish Natarajan
Venue: 11 Chander Road
They say that friends are the family that you choose. But when you're a goldfish trapped in a bowl for your whole life, you’re pretty much fucked. When an adolescent puppy who’s as trustful as he is lustful trots into her life all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, will Fishy try her best to ignore his exposed anus and befriend the freak? Or will she make a tasteless joke about his questionable parentage and proceed to call his mother a whore?