Highlights

Online Course: “Rethinking Practice and the Practitioner: Pandemic Purpose”

A 9-week course that invites participants to further develop their critical questioning and reflecting skills, as well as to seek out how to better approach critique as care. Suitable for independent/freelance performing arts practitioners who have been working professionally for…

“If that’s what you want, just go for it!”

It is a reassuring thing to hear Dr. Robin Loon declare to his class of TS3103 Theatre Lab: “If that's what you want, just go for it!” His usual endearing and flamboyant manner makes me chuckle just a little, but…

Conducting documentation in TS3103 Theatre Lab: “Ties That Bind”

A collection of documentation outputs produced by the TS3013 Theatre Lab students

Timeline of “Ties That Bind”

This timeline documents the students' and Centre 42's activities and the development of the students' performance responses as the COVID-19 situation unfolded.

About “Wills and Secession”

Wills and Secession is the second play in Eleanor Wong’s landmark trilogy Invitation to Treat, which features Ellen Toh, an ambitious lawyer and gay woman.

Love Letters to 42

Love Letters to 42 is a loving tribute to Centre 42, comprising love letters from different individuals, to be collected and organised as an online repository of personal reflections and memories associated with Centre 42 and the iconic blue house…

WE ARE SIX!

21 Apr 2020 | Centre 42 is turning SIX on 21 Apr 2020! Come celebrate with us on Zoom with a reading of "WRITES" by Robin Loon – originally performed at our opening – and a toast to mark the…

The Future of Centre 42 at 42 Waterloo Street

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 23 JANUARY 2020 | On 1 May 2020, Centre 42 (C42) will return 42 Waterloo Street to the National Arts Council (NAC). The premises will undergo renovations and reopen in the later part of the year to…

The House at 42 Waterloo Street

Centre 42’s home at 42 Waterloo Street is really old. But just how old exactly? We’re not entirely sure. What we do know is that the house must have seen a lot in its lifetime, evolving from a home for…

3 Key Events in Singapore Queer History

Early queer-themed theatre works in Singapore often responded to events which directly affected the LGBTQ community. The Vault: Desert Blooms recounts several key moments in history between the years 1985 and 1995 which provided fodder and impetus for theatre-makers to…

The Desert Blooms

An accompanying exhibition, titled The Desert Blooms, features nine of these plays. The exhibition details who, when and how these plays were created, and also touched on any resistance these plays might have encountered when they were staged for the…

Interview with Ng Yi-Sheng

"I would like there to be a sense of heritage. If you’re queer and if you choose to see yourself as part of the queer community, you should have a Singaporean heritage to look back on. And literature and drama…

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

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

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…

Poetic License

Here at Centre 42, we love bringing artists together. That is why, at this year’s Late-Night Texting, we present Verso / Recto, a dialogue between Main Tulis Group and Pink Gajah Theatre. We challenged these two theatre groups to create…

Love’s the name of the game

The more I write, the more I have to write!” theatre-maker and game designer Rei Poh exclaims. It is still early on in the process, but Rei’s script for his upcoming work, Dating Sim (Beta), has already amassed a hefty…

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

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

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…

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