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The blog is a place for us to share the stories of theatre practitioners who come to use our space, whether they’re playwrights, directors, dramaturgs, or actors. Through this platform, we hope to document their creative process and provide some behind the scenes insight into the work that they do. Articles posted here are written either by the artists themselves, or by the Centre 42 team.
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…
A platter of plays

A platter of plays

Late-Night Texting returns for its third edition on 24 and 25 August 2018, with a focus on bite-sized dramatic works created by four theatre collectives.
Standing together

Standing together

"It’s about co-learning. It’s about putting down what you think is right, and to be curious about what the other person can offer, and co-nudging each other forward.” - Peter Sau
It gets easier

It gets easier

"I have to admit that for this play the playwrights are men. The characters are men. National service is for men. But now, the play is more than about men." - Neo Hai Bin
Crossing paths

Crossing paths

"[P]roducers don’t get much attention at all because so much of what she or he does is invisible to the audience. I’d like to shine the spotlight on the work TT has done to help bring the company onto the…
Interview with Eugene Koh, Lee Shu Yu & Brenda Tan

Interview with Eugene Koh, Lee Shu Yu & Brenda Tan

Written in 1982, Stella Kon’s Emily of Emerald Hill is one of the most well-known and beloved plays in the Singapore English-Language Theatre canon. And now, 36 years after the monodrama was first written, a group of young theatre practitioners…
Taking root

Taking root

“You can’t be truly connected to a place unless you start digging and see what has been before you." - Kuo Jian Hong
An inconvenient truth

An inconvenient truth

"When you push forth your own opinions as the objective and absolute truth, that’s where bullying becomes the status quo." - Chong Tze Chien
Our national arts festival: an origins story

Our national arts festival: an origins story

The Singapore International Festival of Arts 2018 celebrates its four-decade heritage as the premier arts and cultural event in independent Singapore. In this essay, we look back even further in our history to see how our national arts festival came about. Within the…