Artist’s Reflection

Reflections by Lim Shien Hian

I’ve always been quite interested to explore what sets theatre apart from other media, especially film to which it is usually compared and put against – if you have 2 hours to entertain yourself on a weekend, would you rather…

Reflections by Ruzaini Mazani

A Mad World(wind) When I first came across the play, La Libre Latifah by Aidli Mosbit, I thought I had a clear idea of what I wanted to do to respond to it. I wanted to explore the life of…

Reflections by Cheryl Tan

“Why is the measure of love loss?” — Jeanette Winterson, Written On the Body All things amalgamate in Emptiness, to a serene and inevitable futility that awaits our best efforts at understanding and knowing the world in all of its…

Reflections by Ke Weiliang

Letters to/from Rosnah is an experiment I conducted with visual/performance artist ila and actor/writer Tysha Khan, in response to Haresh Sharma’s monodrama Rosnah. For this experiment, I invited both artists to embody two different versions of Rosnah, and interacted with…

Reflections by Lim Si Hui

A Letter to My Breastless Selves In closing out the project, I wanted to draw on the intimacy and personal nature of the past two months of research. This reflection, inspired by Weiliang’s project medium, takes the form of letters…

Reflections by Isaiah Christopher Lee

“The responsibility for bringing about an enlightening situation is finally our own.”* Everything flows into each other in the end; without the ancient scriptures that crystallised Vedic thought, there would not be an Asia we have come to know of…

Reflections by Grace Lee-Khoo

As an applied theatre practitioner, I am most interested in the phenomenological human condition. Essentially, phenomenology is the study of structures of consciousness, as experienced from the first-person point of view. We are each the complex sum of our experiences.…

谈空间: Reflections by Neo Hai Bin

有时候，我们会轻易地说：没有钱，怎么做戏？没有空间，怎么做戏？但反过来想：就算金钱唾手可得、资源唾手可得、整个剧场界都愿意伸出援手帮你，你到底有多大的信念去搞戏剧呢？

Reflections on The Vault: #3 three

The Vault: #3 three revisits Quah Sy Ren's Invisibility through the eyes of theatre design collective INDEX. We asked the three INDEX designers to reflect on the conceptualisation and development of their works in this design-centred series. A short summary…

Reflections by Nidya Shanthini Manokara

12 September 2015, Reflections and Refractions. On Phase 1 of the Dramaturg Apprenticeship Programme under The Garage: “Functioning as a critic and commentator within a production, the dramaturg is a highly valuable resource-without agency to dictate change. Embarking on this…

Reflections by Nandabalan Panneerselvam

2 September 2015, on Phase 1 of the Dramaturg Apprenticeship Programme under The Garage: “I began my apprenticeship both with excitement as well as some trepidation, mainly because I assumed I would be treading unfamiliar territory. Instead, I discovered that…

Reflections by Olivia Vong

26 August 2015, on Phase 1 of the Dramaturg Apprenticeship Programme under The Garage: “Phase 1 of The Garage, has been fulfilling thus far –despite my initial trepidation of coming into this programme as one of the youngest, and possibly most…

Reflections by Wang Liansheng

30 August 2015, on Writing for Dramaturgy, part of the Dramaturg Apprenticeship Programme under The Garage: “I remembered the very first question Dr Loon asked at the first session of The Garage was, “What do you think Dramaturgy is”? At…

Reflections about the creation process of NINETEEN SIXTY-FOUR

We asked the two key artist-collaborators Nora Samosir and Serene Chen about their personal responses to The Vault, its concept and the working process. Hear their reflections and views about working on the Centre's inaugural iteration of The Vault programme…