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LEAVE, STAY, OR TO DIE | playcircle

LEAVE, STAY, OR TO DIE | playcircle

Leave, Stay, or To Die is playcircle’s debut performance, exploring the relationship between a child and father. Through this, rethinking our role in the family unit. Leave, Stay, or To Die is also a crystallisation of its members’ learning in…
WITH/OUT | by Loo Zihan

WITH/OUT | by Loo Zihan

With/Out by Loo Zihan is a new work commissioned by the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2015. For the second half of November 2014, the performance and moving-image artist and educator Loo Zihan will be in residence at Centre 42 to…
2 HOUSES | by Lim Yu-Beng

2 HOUSES | by Lim Yu-Beng

Centre 42’s very first Basement Workshop project, 2 Houses, is a coalition of the best in Singapore and Malaysia’s theatre, to create a powerful fictionalised tale born of actual historical facts and personal interviews with descendants of pioneering families from…
Reflections by Tan Liting

Reflections by Tan Liting

16 Sep 2016, discussing and reflecting on her Boiler Room journey: *Liting’s play was retitled Suit at this juncture.   28 June 2016, recalling the key milestones of her Boiler Room journey:   21 March 2016, on the Research and Construction Phase…
Reflections by Nabilah Said

Reflections by Nabilah Said

16 July 2016, recalling the key milestones of her Boiler Room journey: 20 March 2016, on the Research and Construction Phase of her Boiler Room journey: The Boiler Room programme, for me, could not have come at a better time.…
Open Call for Boiler Room 2016 Playwrights!

Open Call for Boiler Room 2016 Playwrights!

Into its third cycle in 2016, Boiler Room is a project-specific content creation incubation programme for playwrights. We aim to customise a developmental process that is appropriate to the creators and their ideas/work, and put through a comprehensive process of…
Open Call for Playwrights!

Open Call for Playwrights!

Into its second cycle in 2015, Boiler Room is a project-specific content creation incubation programme for playwrights. We aim to customise a developmental process that is appropriate to the creators and their ideas/work, and put through a comprehensive process of…

Boiler Room 2014 Timeline

Boiler Room 2014 is the inaugural cycle that was launched in April 2014. As a pilot programme, the process is continually under refinement to ensure that a robust yet valuable framework is provided to guide playwrights in developing their ideas/text.…
INITIAL CONDITIONS written by Eleanor Wong

INITIAL CONDITIONS written by Eleanor Wong

A 30min reading of Eleanor Wong's new work, marking the conclusion of her residency at the Centre for Quantum Technologies. In collaboration with Cake Theatrical Productions, supported by Centre 42 | 13 - 14 March 2015, 8.00pm @ Centre 42…
Reflections by Suzanne Choo

Reflections by Suzanne Choo

12 April 2016, thoughts about wrapping up her Boiler Room journey:   23 April 2015, on the Writing and Review Phase of her Boiler Room journey: “I started writing at the beginning of January but realized that as I wrote,…
Reflections by Bryan Tan

Reflections by Bryan Tan

29 May 2016, thoughts about wrapping up his Boiler Room journey:   28 October 2014, on the Research Phase of his Boiler Room journey: “I pull on a loose thread; and a tapestry starts to unravel. It began with three…
Reflections by Daniel Chan

Reflections by Daniel Chan

19 May 2016, thoughts about wrapping up his Boiler Room journey:   16 April 2015, on the Writing and Review Phase of his Boiler Room journey: “I had left the script untouched for 2 months after submitting the script for…
Open Call for Playwrights!

Open Call for Playwrights!

Boiler Room 2014 is a project-specific content creation incubation programme for playwrights. We aim to customise a developmental process that is appropriate to the creators and their ideas/work, and put through a comprehensive process of refinement and hothousing |Application period:…