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The blog is a place for us to share the stories of theatre practitioners who come to use our space, whether they’re playwrights, directors, dramaturgs, or actors. Through this platform, we hope to document their creative process and provide some behind the scenes insight into the work that they do. Articles posted here are written either by the artists themselves, or by the Centre 42 team.

The Critical Ecologies Crossword

Try your hand at cracking some of the words and phrases that have been used frequently by the working team during their six-month residency period! Click here to play a desktop interactive version of the puzzle Click here to play…

Mapping Critical Influences and Inspirations

  As part of a mapping exercise in April 2021, the Critical Ecologies working group listed out the various critics, writers and/or practitioners who mentored them and influenced their growth, as well as those whose work they had read extensively…

Question & Answer with Critical Ecologies!

In this Q&A segment, the team got to ask (and answer) a set of 2 questions from their fellow members. The first round of questions were more casual, with the follow up questions a bit more specific and conceptual. Sam:…

The Critical Ecologies Crossword (Desktop)

This is the desktop version of the crossword puzzle. Play on mobile instead. Try your hand at cracking some of the words and phrases that have been used frequently by the working team during their six-month residency period! Puzzle not loading?…
Making Space in Time

Making Space in Time

An interview with Shai, former co-founder and Artistic Director of Yellow Chair Productions, on "Our Space in Time", a digital exhibition created as part of our Archival Residency. | 30 August 2021
New Ways of Collaborating

New Ways of Collaborating

Centre 42's new Co-Lab Residency is for collectives, inspired by laboratory-style experimentation and investigation, and altogether focuses on collaboration. The aim of Co-Lab is to create and grow ecologies of creativity and expertise.
Interviews with the Vault: Lite Artists

Interviews with the Vault: Lite Artists

Since the beginning of 2021, the artists-in-residence of The Vault: Lite have been researching and developing responses to the plays they have selected, under the overarching theme “A Whole New World” inspired by monumental changes to human lives brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Interview with Fezhah Maznan

Interview with Fezhah Maznan

  Fezhah Maznan is a producer for the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA). In October 2020, she took part in Dramaturgs’ Practice Development: A Introduction to the Dramaturg’s Work (DPD), an online course that introduced performing arts practitioners to dramaturgy and the…
Of First Flights and Transformations: Documenting “Peepbird”

Of First Flights and Transformations: Documenting “Peepbird”

“Peepbird is a representation of our philosophy when it comes to puppetry,” Myra explained. “It's that pure commitment to the object you are holding in your hands. That devotion, that willingness and that one-to-one connection with it, where the puppet…
Exploring the language of the digital

Exploring the language of the digital

The Performance Arts and Augmented Reality online workshop introduced performance-makers and production designers to photogrammetry and video volumetric capture, and how to harness these technologies in creative projects. I caught up with three participants — Cheryl Tan Yun Xin, Woo…
Four key takeaways from “Performance Arts and Augmented Reality”

Four key takeaways from “Performance Arts and Augmented Reality”

Last month, Centre 42 presented our online workshop Performance Arts and Augmented Reality, facilitated by Tan Shou Chen, a freelance theatremaker, and Timothi Lim ("Tim"), Creative Director of Augmented Reality at The Doodle People. Here are four key takeaways from…
Life after Anthropo-Centre 42: A photo essay

Life after Anthropo-Centre 42: A photo essay

It was with a heavy heart when we closed the gates of 42 Waterloo Street on 6 Apr 2020. And with the impending renovations delayed, the blue bungalow sat empty for several months. When we re-entered the premises exactly four months…
How tall are you?

How tall are you?

We got the participants to ask each other questions about their experience on the nine-week online course Rethinking Practice and the Practitioner: Pandemic Purpose. (Or about anything under the sun, really.) Because of Pandemic Purpose's focus on questioning and reflection,…
Her first Zoom course

Her first Zoom course

"I've now completed my first Zoom course!" When a beaming Charlene made her declaration, the window pane of faces erupted in applause. I, however, was left wondering what insights the seasoned educator might have gleaned from developing and conducting a…
“If that’s what you want, just go for it!”

“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…
A Singaporean Mango

A Singaporean Mango

I only remember two shows I watched at Action Theatre at 42 Waterloo Street. The first was Alfian Sa’at The Optic Trilogy in 2001. The set included a few CRT TVs and I was quite impressed by the way they…