The Vault: Gossip, Symphony & Other Matters is a triple bill of performance responses to Roberty Yeo’s One Year Back Home created by the graduating students of NUS Theatre Studies Theatre Lab.
| 00:00:16 “What Matters” | 00:21:53 “Gossip GRLs” | 00:41:08 “Symphony 404″ |
One Year Back Home by Robert Yeo is about the lives of 20-something-year-old Singaporeans returning home from studying overseas in 1972. What will 20-something-year-olds nearly 40 years later make of the play?
First staged in 1980, One Year Back Home was a runaway breakthrough for Singapore English-language theatre. In 2019, students from the National University of Singapore’s Theatre Studies Theatre Lab delved into this landmark play and have crafted three unique performance responses:
Symphony 404 is a riff off the premise in One Year Back Home of old friends reuniting for a shared purpose. A reunion concert for their alma mater goes south when alumni members of a school band end up fighting with each other.
What Matters features Lisa Ang, the daughter of main character Ang Siew Hwa. Now in her 50s, Lisa is a single woman of mixed parentage who is in politics. This performance charts Lisa’s rise to prominence and the reactions of different cross-sections of the public.
Gossip GRLs is a farce that examines the support staff of Grassroots Leaders (GRLs). The performance follows the misadventures of a new volunteer joining the chaotic and competitive world of grassroots leadership.
REGISTRATION
Saturday, 20 April 2019
2.30pm & 7.30pm
@ Centre 42 Black Box
Admission: Give-What-You-Can
(Cash only, at the door)
WHAT MATTERS
Desai Shivani Jatin
Lee Shea Shan Mega
Victoria Ow Sue Rey
Yeo Dana
Chew Hwee Chee
GOSSIP GRLs
Cherie Ho
Chermaine Cham
Chimene Khoo
Michelle Simon Hariff
Tricia Ding
SYMPHONY 404
Samuel Ng
Shim Sae Eun
Lau Xuan Kai
Nathaniel Aaron Tan
Jean Tay
DRAMATURG
Dr. Robin Loon
(Module Chair TS3103 Theatre Lab)
PRODUCER
Nora Samosir
(Coordinator TS3103 Theatre Lab)
DOCUMENTATION WORKSHOP FACILITATORS
Daniel Teo & Gwen Pew
(Centre 42)
TECHNICAL CONSULTANT
Henrik Cheng
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The Vault: Gossip, Symphony & Other Matters features three performance responses to Robert Yeo’s One Year Back Home. The three performance responses are created by the graduating students of the NUS Theatre Studies Theatre Lab, engaging with and responding to the ideas, dramaturgy and theatricalities in One Year Back Home. Gossip, Symphony & Other Matters is presented by Centre 42 and NUS Theatre Studies.
