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Boiler Room Cycle 2015

Boiler Room Cycle 2015

Following from the Open Call in April 2015, we are delighted to welcome on board Boiler Room Cycle 2015 Playwrights: The playwrights will now embark on putting their new works through a phased incubation framework: The Resident Director and Dramaturg will be…
Boiler Room Cycle 2014

Boiler Room Cycle 2014

Following from the Open Call in April 2016, we are delighted to welcome on board Boiler Room Cycle 2014 Playwrights: The playwrights will now embark on putting their new works through a phased incubation framework: The Resident Director and Dramaturg will be…
2 HOUSES | by Lim Yu-Beng

2 HOUSES | by Lim Yu-Beng

Centre 42’s very first Basement Workshop project, 2 Houses, is a coalition of the best in Singapore and Malaysia’s theatre, to create a powerful fictionalised tale born of actual historical facts and personal interviews with descendants of pioneering families from…
Interview with Darryl Lim

Interview with Darryl Lim

"To me, social separation can feel similar to the death of a loved one in terms of letting go, and seeing someone slowly leave your life. That’s why in the first version, you just see this guy descending into hell…
Interview with Tan Liting

Interview with Tan Liting

"It’s a play about body image about humanity, about living in the skin you’re in, or finding a different image or skin."
Interview with Chong Tze Chien

Interview with Chong Tze Chien

"I want to ask what would happen if we discover a great Hitler painting. How would that rewrite art history, and how would that rewrite Germany’s history? And if we were to discover that great piece of work, would we…
Interview with Nessa Anwar

Interview with Nessa Anwar

In this interview, playwright and performer Nessa Anwar tells us about her work and her process in "Riders Know When It’s Gonna Rain", a play that represents the two great loves in her life: motorbikes and theatre.
Reflections by Tan Liting

Reflections by Tan Liting

16 Sep 2016, discussing and reflecting on her Boiler Room journey: *Liting’s play was retitled Suit at this juncture.   28 June 2016, recalling the key milestones of her Boiler Room journey:   21 March 2016, on the Research and Construction Phase…
Reflections by Nabilah Said

Reflections by Nabilah Said

16 July 2016, recalling the key milestones of her Boiler Room journey: 20 March 2016, on the Research and Construction Phase of her Boiler Room journey: The Boiler Room programme, for me, could not have come at a better time.…
Open Call for Boiler Room 2016 Playwrights!

Open Call for Boiler Room 2016 Playwrights!

Into its third cycle in 2016, Boiler Room is a project-specific content creation incubation programme for playwrights. We aim to customise a developmental process that is appropriate to the creators and their ideas/work, and put through a comprehensive process of…