The Vault: The Interchange
13 & 14 Nov 2021 | 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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The Vault: RE:CALL
21-22 Aug 2021 | The Vault: RE:CALL is a performance response to the play Recalling Mother, about the personal stories two women tell about their relationships with their mothers. It comprises a movement showcase and a participatory workshop engaging with…
The Vault: Who’s Asking? Who’s Talking?
9 & 29 Apr 2021 | The Vault: Who's Asking? Who's Talking? features two original short performances devised in response to Henry Ong's Madame Mao's Memories. The two performance responses are created by the graduating students of the NUS Theatre…
The Vault: Ties That Bind
18 Apr 2020 | The Vault: Ties That Bind features two original short performances devised in response to Eleanor Wong's Wills and Secession. This public presentation was to have taken place on 18 April 2020 at Teater Ekamatra's Greymatter, but…
The Vault: Desert Blooms
30 Nov & 1 Dec 2019 | Desert Blooms is a lecture-performance that traces the history of Singapore theatre from 1985 to 1995 through a queer lens. Created by Ng Yi-Sheng, directed by Tan Shou Chen and performed by Rebekah…
The Vault: Gossip, Symphony & Other Matters
20 April 2019 | The Vault: Gossip, Symphony & Other Matters features three performance responses to Robert Yeo's One Year Back Home. The three performance responses are created by the graduating students of the NUS Theatre Studies Theatre Lab, engaging…
The Vault: Sau(dara)
5-6 Oct 2018 | The Vault: Sau(dara) is a contemporary response to Leow Puay Tin's Three Children. Created by Bhumi Collective, Sau(dara) is an homage to the 1988 production of Three Children which draws from the original text and the…
The Vault: @thisisemeraldgirl
29-30 Jun 2018 | @thisisemeraldgirl is an adaptation of Stella Kon’s much-loved play Emily of Emerald Hill. Created by Eugene Koh and Lee Shu Yu, and performed by Brenda Tan, @thisisemeraldgirl combines new writing, multimedia, and Stella Kon’s original text…
The Vault: My Grandfather’s Road 我阿公的路
23-25 Nov 2017 | Two versions of The Vault: My Grandfather’s Road were presented – one written and performed in Singaporean Cantonese by Gary Tang, and one written and performed in Malaysian Cantonese by Tan Cher Kian.
The Vault: Absence Makes the Heart…
28-29 Oct 2017 | Written by Aswani Aswath and dramaturged by Alfian Sa’at, Absence Makes the Heart… is an attempt to trace the presence and absence of Indian roles in Singapore English-language theatre, from the early days of its birth…
The Vault: Dialects & Dialectics
5-6 May 2017 | Nelson Chia, the artistic director of Nine Years Theatre, directed “No Parking on Odd Days” and “The Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole”, monologues written by late theatre doyen Kuo Pao Kun. In an exploration…
The Vault: Becoming Mother
19 Mar 2017 | Dance practitioners and researchers Dr. Nidya Shanthini Manokara and Jocelyn Chng presented the findings of their research into motherhood, dance and text, in a devised performance, and an exhibition.
The Vault: Dancing the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
24 Feb 2017 | Contemporary dance artist Lee Mun Wai presents his artistic response to the works of playwright Elangovan, specifically the three banned plays Talaq, Smegma, and Stoma.
The Vault: Leng-Geh-Mng 龍牙門
16 Jul 2016 | Under the direction of theatre practitioner Zelda Tatiana Ng, the reading of Leng-Geh-Mng was presented in the format of a radio play. Performing the reading were some of the original cast members from the 1998 production.…
The Vault: Distilling the Dance
2-6 Jul 2016 | Interdisciplinary artist Kiran Kumar performed Dear Dead Dancer on 2 July 2016 at the Centre 42 Black Box. This video recording is accompanied by documentation of the projection slides, text, and images of the performance. Dear…
The Vault: Project Understudy
23 May 2016 | In this presentation, the creators and writers shared the experiences of developing a new play through writing collectively, and making documentation a key element in the process. Selected character monologues and scenes were read by the…
The Vault: How Did You Meet Tina?
5 Dec 2015 | The Centre 42 Black Box was outfitted with 10 screens showing past footages of Christina Sergeant’s performances, with notes scribbled on the screens detailing her journey in Singapore theatre scene. The collected interviews with Roger Jenkins,…
The Vault: 汐/Sea
23 Nov 2015 | The Vault: 汐/Sea is directed by Casey Lim, and features Serene Chen and Zelda Ng who reprise their roles as the sisters. The actresses perform a combination of Robin Loon’s translated text 《汐》 and Haresh Sharma’s…
The Vault: Big Bird and the Cat
12 Oct 2015, 8pm | In this seminar-styled presentation, Margaret Chan shares her investigation of Kuo Pao Kun’s metaphors of Big Bird and the Cat. Features readings from Kuo Pao Kun’s plays by Ali Khan, Margaret Chan and her students…
The Vault: #3.3 Scale 1:333333.333…
30 Sep - 3 Oct 2015 | Spatial designer Lim Wei Ling responds to the text Invisibility and presents a bold “living” installation highlighting the ephemeral nature of relationships and the interchangeable, interdependent forces of life that exist in this…
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