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Looking Back at an Arts Festival for the Future

Looking Back at an Arts Festival for the Future

Southernmost – it’s the title of Emergency Stairs’ annual festival for artistic experimentation and dialogue, and also a geographic direction. At first encounter with the word, and thinking of geography as cultural politics, I think of relationships, positionality and cultures.…
Homage to Mat and Minah Reps

Homage to Mat and Minah Reps

In 2015, Nessa Anwar volunteered for an organisation that provided educational opportunities for underprivileged children. When she visited a rental flat on a mission trip, she was greeted by a sobering sight. “I saw five or six curtains hanging from…
The A to Z of Making Theatre

The A to Z of Making Theatre

Imagine this – you’ve written a script. You’ve even tested it out on an audience. And then, your director says you’re scrapping it all and starting again. (Did you wince?) Well, it’s not that your script is terrible. It’s just part…
Growing theatre

Growing theatre

Centre 42 is a blue-hued greenhouse for plays. Some theatre-makers arrive with a sapling of a play, and we simply provide time and space for growth. And sometimes, we give a bit more of a nudge. For the first time…
The Power to Start Things

The Power to Start Things

Playwriting can be a lonely career. For the independent playwright, creating work and searching for opportunities by oneself is often a daunting, difficult task. But two heads (or more) are better than one, as I found out from two playwriting…
Key Takeaways from ADN Conference 2019

Key Takeaways from ADN Conference 2019

On 26 May, the invited speakers of the Asian Dramaturgs’ Network (ADN) Conference 2019 gathered back in the Festival House Blue Room to share highlights, insights and critiques from two days of presentations and intense discussions. Titled “Dramaturgy and the…
Seeding clouds

Seeding clouds

The past five years have been exciting for us here at Centre 42. Since we opened our doors in April 2014, we have been home to more than 150 artists and theatre collectives, and supported the development of over 170…
A dramaturgy of everything

A dramaturgy of everything

"Dramaturgy as a word is a prism, through which you can enter from multiple directions. And that is a very rare thing for a word to provide." - David Pledger
Unfinished business

Unfinished business

"My practice has been about providing people with knowledge and information, to understand that there are multiple historical narratives." - Loo Zihan
Causeway connections

Causeway connections

"The relationship between Malaysia and Singapore is more like sibling rivalry, one-upmanship between families. It's not acrimonious and we enjoy having a dig at them as they do us. That's probably why the writers chose very human stories to depict…
Recapping “Year in Reviews 2018″

Recapping “Year in Reviews 2018″

"In the Living Room: Year in Reviews 2018" was held at Centre 42 on 4 December 2018, and well attended by various players in the theatre community.
Get to know: Karen Cheng from Wonder Gelato

Get to know: Karen Cheng from Wonder Gelato

"I love coconut flavours, fruity flavours. I don’t see those very often in ice cream shops; it’s always Earl Grey Lavender and all the other classic ones. So I thought, maybe I should go and learn how to make it…
Creative coincidences

Creative coincidences

"I had very little to work with in the beginning except the script. But then I read the programme booklet of the 1992 production, and watched the video of the 1988 production, and I saw that I have incorporated quite…
Ambitious freaks

Ambitious freaks

“What does it mean to be a straight man, and what does it mean to be a straight woman, and what roles do they play? And if we just turn those two genders on their heads, what would that show…
Learning to listen

Learning to listen

"In the silence between a speaker speaking and Fiky rapidly processing what was being said, I felt the listening presence that Charlene spoke of when discussing the role of the dramaturg. There was as much attention paid to that laborious…
Interview with Liu Xiaoyi

Interview with Liu Xiaoyi

"Sometime I feel that the exciting part of a journey is the uncertainty of the unknown and the impossible. Every time we choose the unknown, we win more independence, freedom and possibility. Therefore, I always choose a journey to unknown…