All aboard the Waterloo Express! The year is 2065 and time travel has just arrived in Singapore. Take a journey to visit the cultural landmarks of Singapore through some of our most classic plays.
The Vault: The Interchange is a performance that revisits classics from the Singaporean theatre canon and explores the shared theme of losing culturally significant spaces. Just as Singapore’s landscape has been fast changing, so has its theatre reflected the transformation of these sites and how it has impacted our collective cultural memory. The performance takes us through these sites by reimagining these locations, some of them found in plays such as The Silly Little Girl and the Funny Old Tree by Kuo Pao Kun and Emily of Emerald Hill by Stella Kon.
Beyond the realm of fiction, The Interchange also explores the displacement of our theatre venues and spaces by featuring the old National Theatre, The Substation, as well 42 Waterloo Street. As the Waterloo Express veers off track in their tour of the past, The Interchange asks if it is too late to save what we have lost and are about to lose.
Created by For Your Consideration, a collective formed by its key members Damien Ng, Hilary Armstrong, Kimberley Ng and Yuri D Hoffmann.
IMDA Advisory: Some Mature Content
REGISTRATION
13 & 14 November 2021, 8pm
Black Box @ 42 Waterloo Street
Admission: Give-What-You-Can
(Cash/PayNow at the door or via Eventbrite upon Registration)
IMDA Advisory: Some Mature Content
For Your Consideration is a collective created from LASALLE College of the Arts’ Bachelors in Acting 2020 cohort. They aim to create work that can challenge audiences’ notions and preconceptions of the world and art around them – leaving the final judgement to their consideration. Their most recent work was an adaptation of Chong Tze Chien’s House that was originally for the stage into an audio experience. They hope to continue to interweave theatre with multimedia thereby engaging the senses to create theatrical experiences.
The four creatives behind The Vault: The Interchange: Damien, Kimberley, Hilary and Yuri are part of For Your Consideration.
Check out their Instagram here: @foryourconsiderationsg
Damien Ng
Damien Ng is an actor who enjoys collaborations and being with a community of people. He hopes to continue working on his craft and is interested in learning and understanding new perspectives other than his own. His most recent works include Resistance (Darryl Lim), House: Audio Play (Rayann Condy).
Kimberley Ng
Kimberley Ng is a freelance actor based in Singapore. She graduated from LASALLE College of the Arts with a Diploma in Performance (2017) and a BA (Hons) in Acting (2020). She was most recently heard in the audio play adaptation of House, an original script by Chong Tze Chien. She is thankful to have been able to work with Centre 42 for The Vault, and to explore what it means to call a place home.
Hilary Armstrong
Hilary Armstrong is a Singaporean-Canadian stage and film actor passionate about art that amplifies voices of underheard communities. Being multicultural herself, she loves the possibilities that performance offers for cultures to connect. She is delighted to have had the chance to deepen her own connection to her Singaporean heritage through The Vault.
Yuri D Hoffmann
Yuri D Hoffmann is a stage & film actor very much driven by curiosity. Curiosity that led him to live 15,868km away from home in order to attend LASALLE for an honours degree in Acting. As an honorary Singaporean, Yuri is glad to be part of The Vault where he could learn more about Singapore and deepen his connection with the country.
Programme Booklet
This programme booklet serves as supplementary information for the audience who attended the live showcases on 13 and 14 November 2021. Check it out to view the process behind The Interchange, and the other resources that the collective had referenced.
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The Vault: The Interchange is a performance that revisits classics from the Singaporean theatre canon and explores the shared theme of losing culturally significant spaces.
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