Videos

WE ARE SIX!

21 Apr 2020 | Centre 42 is turning SIX on 21 Apr 2020! Come celebrate with us on Zoom with a reading of "WRITES" by Robin Loon – originally performed at our opening – and a toast to mark the…

(Video) The Vault: My Grandfather’s Road

The Vault: My Grandfather’s Road was presented from 23 to 25 November 2017 in front of a live audience. Neo Kim Seng revisits his 2015 text My Grandfather’s Road, based on his childhood memories, refreshing it in the spoken language of his childhood – Cantonese. Working…

Video: In the Living Room: Year in Reviews

In the Living Room: Year in Reviews was presented on 14 December 2017 in front of a live audience. A panel of seven reviewers from Centre 42’s critical writing platform Citizens’ Reviews and online arts publication ArtsEquator revisited the local productions staged in 2017.…

(Video) The Vault: Absence Makes the Heart…

The Vault: Absence Makes the Heart… was presented on 28 & 29 October 2017 in front of a live audience. Written by Aswani Aswath and dramaturged by Alfian Sa’at, Absence Makes the Heart… is an attempt to trace the presence and absence of Indian…

Video: In the Living Room: William Teo’s Asia-in-Theatre Research Circus

In the Living Room: William Teo’s Asia-in-Theatre Research Circus was presented on 29 July 2017 in front of a live audience. Robin Loon, Elizabeth de Roza, Jeremiah Choy, Lok Meng Chue, and Neo Kim Seng came together to discuss the extraordinary…

(Video) Dialects & Dialectics

The Vault: Dialects & Dialectics was presented in three showcases on 5 & 6 May 2017. Nelson Chia, the artistic director of Nine Years Theatre, directed “No Parking on Odd Days” and “The Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole”, monologues written…

Video: In the Living Room: Fundamentally Happy

In the Living Room: Fundamentally Happy was presented on 5 April 2017 in front of a live audience. The Necessary Stage’s researcher Shawn Chua is joined by Nelson Chia, the director and translator of the 2017 production, Aidli ‘Alin’ Mosbit, who played the…

(Documentation) Becoming Mother

The Vault: Becoming Mother was presented on 19 March 2017. Dance practitioners and researchers Dr. Nidya Shanthini Manokara and Jocelyn Chng presented the findings of their research into motherhood, dance and text, in a devised performance, and an exhibition. A 60-minute recording of the…

(Video) Dancing the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Vault: Dancing the Good, the Bad and the Ugly was presented on 24 February 2017 in front of a live audience. Contemporary dance artist Lee Mun Wai presents his artistic response to the works of playwright Elangovan, specifically the three banned plays Talaq, Smegma,…

Video: Alfian Sa’at in the Living Room: New Directions in Malay Theatre

Alfian Sa’at in the Living Room: New Directions in Malay Theatre was presented on 24 November 2016 in front of a live audience. Singaporean playwright Alfian Sa’at sits down with a panel of fellow Malay playwrights – Aidli ‘Alin’ Mosbit, Irfan Kasban, Nabilah…

Video – The Vault: Leng-Geh-Mng

The Vault: Leng-Geh-Mng 龍牙門 was presented in the company of an audience on 16 July 2016. Leng-Geh-Mng (“Dragon’s Tooth Gate”) is a comedy which spoofs the conventions of pugilistic films set in ancient China. This play was written by playwrights Lee Shyh Jih…

Documentation – The Vault: Distilling the Dance

The Vault: Distilling the Dance was presented from 2-6 July 2016. Distilling the Dance was a multi-format presentation seeking to present dance beyond the frame of performance. Singapore-based independent interdisciplinary artist Kiran Kumar created four configurations of movement, text and image: an essay-performance,…