Centre 42 is one of the supporting partners of the 2015 M1 Singapore Fringe Festival.
Returning for its 11th year, the Festival will feature 18 events from eight countries. Audiences can look forward to a diverse array of works curated around the theme “Art and Loss”. The Festival runs from 14 to 25 January 2015 across several venues.
In line with the Festival’s goal of developing independent artists, as well as its twin-purposes of innovation and discussion, Centre 42 is collaborating with the Festival on three of its programmes:
With/Out by Loo Zihan
A Fringe Highlight and Commission.
With/Out is a reconstruction and reimagining of The Necessary Stage’s Completely With/Out Character, staged in 1999 with the late Paddy Chew, the first person in Singapore to come out publicly about being HIV-positive. Through the use of multimedia and video documentation, Loo Zihan will investigate how concepts of ‘loss’ and ‘absence’ can be represented on stage.
Centre 42 supports With/Out and Loo Zihan as part of the Basement Workshop programme.
Find out more.
Reimagining Singapore Theatre
A Fringe Activity.
Four of the performances in Fringe’15 will be developments or reimaginings of works previously staged, from as early as 1999 to as recent as 2013. This talk, hosted and moderated by Artistic Director Sean Tobin, will gather Fringe’15 artists Loo Zihan (With/Out), Pat Toh (Terra Incognita), Joel Tan (Mosaic) and Alvin Tan (untitled women) to discuss the development and exposure of local work and artistry, and reimaginings towards their 2015 restagings.
Reimagining Singapore Theatre is presented in collaboration with Centre 42 as part of the Living Room programme.
Event details:
22 November, Thursday
3pm, Centre 42 Black Box
Find out more and register for free here.
The Presence and Power of the Playwright
A Fringe Activity.
This discussion is inspired by Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit Red Rabbit, where the playwright performs with unprecedented power and presence, despite his physical absence from the performance. Fringe ’15 artists Lim Kay Siu, Groupe ACM, Take Off Productions and Haresh Sharma of The Necessary Stage discuss the role of the playwright in the post-modern collaborative era of theatre creation.
This talk is supported by Centre 42, in line with our focus on the creation, documentation and promotion of Singapore texts and writings for the Singapore stage.
Event details:
25 January, Sunday
3pm, Centre 42 Black Box
Find out more and register for free here.
View the full line-up of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2015 here.
