Museum Theatre: Pieces of Me
Time: 10.30am - 12pm / 1.45 - 3.15pm / 3.30 - 5.00pm.
Singapore Polytechnic
Please note: A minimum group size of 12 is required to proceed with the performance.

Pieces of Me ( Written by Diploma in Applied Drama and Psychology Students)
Do we destroy culture when we destroy historic buildings?  Set in the Old Parliament House, this roving, site-specific and interactive performance encourages Upper Primary students to think about that very question. Characters from the past, present and the future will come alive right before their eyes and help them find an answer.

Double-Bill: Touched With Fire & 12 Reasons Not To Do A Play
Time: 3.00pm to 4.30pm
Dunman High (Junior High) & Raffles Girls' School

Touched With Fire (Written by Ken Mizusawa)
During the Victorian era, a young girl runs away to train to be a surgeon only to discover that the great advances in medical science have come at a very heavy price. A play inspired by Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein and the real life story of William Burke and William Hare, Touched with Fire is a story about ambition and morality in an increasingly secular age.

12 Reasons Not To Do A Play (Written by Alan Haehnel)
Stage kisses, theatre ghosts and inciting World War 3 are a few of the many things that can go wrong during the production of a play. In this series of delightful examples this tongue in cheek play is out show that drama is a dangerous thing- using every theatrical device it can to prove it!

Psst...Pssst!! – Gossip (.) Gossip (!) Gossip (?)
Time: 5.00pm to 6.30pm
NIE VPA Drama
Written by the Ensemble, Mentored by Dr Chou Shiao-Yuh

Psst...Pssst!! – Gossip (.) Gossip (!) Gossip (?)
Writing a letter full of gossip. Having a good gossip about a mutual friend. Gossiping idly. “I’ve got juicy gossip for you.” Or, “Have you heard the (latest) gossip?” surely you have done one of these before … But, has gossip always been, ‘just gossip’, to you? Cheyenne thinks she has experienced more … she hears voices constantly. And she can feel its effects, however unreal she claims it to be. How did things turn out like that?

Triple-Bill:Beautiful Minds, Fifteen and Searching & match
Time: 7.30pm to 9.30pm
SDEA Outreach Project & The Oral Stage Theatre Company (Malaysia)
Written by the respective ensembles, Mentored and Directed by Felicia Low, Farahlina Ali, Aidli Mosbit, Abra Chusid and Noorlinah Mohamed

Beautiful Minds -
20 pairs of eyes, 20 pairs of ears, look, listen.
20 pairs of hands, 20 pairs of legs, take action.
In a world where voices are aplenty, 20 solo voices sing, speak and move to find their own rhythm.
Siapa kata aku tak boleh?
Siapa kata itu tak cantik?
Mungkin saya menunggu masa saya.
Hari ini, hari saya.
20 beautiful minds stirring . . .

Fifteen and Searching
When you’re 15, nothing is easy.  Why are there bullies?  When do I become a woman? Who can I trust?  Can’t time just stand still?  What defines me?  Starting alone, and becoming an ensemble, this ensemble of young ladies put their thoughts on the line, creating a unique multimedia production, and asking the audience, ‘what do you search for?’

match
Loosely based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Oral Stage presents match, a physical theatre piece exploring the various dimensions of love, relationships and sexuality. This modern take on the romance classic utilizes only body movement, speaking its language across barriers of place and time.

French for Love Letter
Time: 12.00pm
Hwa Chong Junior College
Tickets will not be sold for this event. Seats will be available on a first come basis.

French for Love Letter (Written by Hoh Jian Yang)
Two old classmates find time capsule correspondence on a nostalgia-inspired trip back to their old school. Despite the cumbersome name, French for Love Letter promises a simple trip back to the days of junior college – the simple adolescent agonies of love and awkwardness. Let our young cast make you feel young again in French for Love Letter!

Double-Bill: The End & The Day I Met The Prince
Time: 3.00pm to 4.30pm
Teacher Actor Group at Dunman High School & ACSian Theatre, Anglo-Chinese Junior College
Directed and mentored by Ken Mizusawa and Geetha Creffield

The End (Written by Ken Mizusawa)
Three friends gather to discuss how it all began … only to discover it is not as simple as it first seemed.

The Day I Met The Prince (Written by Kuo Pao Kun)
The Day I Met the Prince’ is a piece of happy storytelling that is infused with local essence and flavour. It explores the psyche of the child, paying tribute to the innocence, vibrancy and animation that characterize the attitudes of children towards their surroundings. Combining physical theatre and text, it is a joyous and colourful account of the power of imagination.

Double-Bill: That Time, That Place & Paranoia's Box
Time: 5.00pm to 6.30pm
Dunman High School (Senior High) & drama.republic, Republic Polytechnic

That Time (Written by Ken Mizusawa)
The unexplained disappearance of a boy during high school continues to preoccupy Mel, a young woman who refuses to live in the present and put the past behind her. Unable to move on, she decides to investigate the case in order to inscribe meaning in what has happened, only to find herself descending ever further into the realm of memory and half remembered moments.

Paranoia's Box (Written by Shaun Chen and Alan C. Shard)
“Who put it there?”
“What’s inside?”
“Is it... dangerous?”

A large, colourful but seemingly innocuous box is found in a room at an abandoned warehouse by a group of ‘nothing-to-dos’ looking for a good mystery to solve. They’d like to open the box, but something’s holding them back... and it’s the box itself. What will they eventually do with the box?  Or what will the box do with them?

Double-Bill: Naomi in the Living Room & Charlie has a Dream, Madam asks a Question and Pedro waits by the Door
Time: 7.30pm to 9.00pm
Victoria Junior College & Temasek Junior College

Naomi in the LIving Room (Written by Christopher Durang)
What do you get when you cross a crazy old woman, her crossing-dressing son and his poor old wife? Absolutely nothing.  We all know how visiting the in-laws can be a pain, but we don’t really value the importance of such occasional visits.  The play, Naomi In the Living Room, gives us an over-dramatised but true tongue-in-cheek scenario of what happens when we visit our parents or even grandparents not as often as we morally should.

Charlie has Dream, Madam asks a Question and Pedro waits by the Door (Written by Anjana Srinivasan)
In a whimsical clockwork woruld that is run by the Maestro and his chorus of clowns, a tailoring shop is the centre of Madam, Pedro, and Charlie’s lives.  Perhaps as an allegory to life itself, they are bound by routine in the safety but stagnancy of the shop as they wait, desire, and long for change.  The story explores how their relationships with each other begin to affect their lives.  The story is inspired by and told in the styles of vaudeville, silent movies, and pantomime.

Triple-Bill:Beautiful Minds, Fifteen and Searching & match
Time: 12.00pm to 2.00pm
SDEA Outreach Project & The Oral Stage Theatre Company (Malaysia)
Written by the respective ensembles, Mentored and Directed by Felicia Low, Farahlina Ali, Aidli Mosbit, Abra Chusid and Noorlinah Mohamed

Beautiful Minds-
20 pairs of eyes, 20 pairs of ears, look, listen.
20 pairs of hands, 20 pairs of legs, take action.
In a world where voices are aplenty, 20 solo voices sing, speak and move to find their own rhythm.
Siapa kata aku tak boleh?
Siapa kata itu tak cantik?
Mungkin saya menunggu masa saya.
Hari ini, hari saya.
20 beautiful minds stirring . . .

Fifteen and Searching
When you’re 15, nothing is easy.  Why are there bullies?  When do I become a woman? Who can I trust?  Can’t time just stand still?  What defines me?  Starting alone, and becoming an ensemble, this ensemble of young ladies put their thoughts on the line, creating a unique multimedia production, and asking the audience, ‘what do you search for?’

match
Loosely based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Oral Stage presents match, a physical theatre piece exploring the various dimensions of love, relationships and sexuality. This modern take on the romance classic utilizes only body movement, speaking its language across barriers of place and time.

Double-Bill: Pong! Play It Right & Identity / Who are you? We?
Time: 3.00pm to 4.30pm
Meridian Junior College & Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Directed and Mentored by Dwayne Mark Lau & Andrew Mowatt

Pong! Play It Right (Adapted by Dwayne Mark Lau)
Pong! Play It Right is a production examining social issues and tensions in the context of Singapore's socio-cultural milieu, where 'clean-ness' and 'right-ness' are emphasized as traits upheld by the main 'players' of society. Through the symbolism inherent in the tiles of a mahjong set, themes such as tradition versus modernity, the thwarting of cherished ambitions and desires, the pervasiveness of materialism, and the pursuit of freedom are explored in each of the four acts or 'rounds'.

Identity / Who are you? We? (Written by Ensemble)
Devised performance exploring issues of identity –using physical theatre and multi media. Non-naturalistic styles coupled with images and layered with text provide a dynamic backdrop for this dramatic exploration.

Double-Bill: A Woman's World & Hush
Time: 5.00pm to 6.30pm
Epiphany, English and Drama Society (NTU) & 0607 (NUS)

A Woman's World (Written by Hafizah Amid)
Three young women and their bedridden mother live in an old house.  The daughters dream of a better life, as they strive to adopt the image of a liberal modern-day woman.  They desire freedom, love, and independence.  Yet, to fulfill these ideals, they are forced into making unwillingly sacrifices for one another.  Will these young ladies survive the bitterness and delusions that plague their lives?

Hush (Written by Ensemble)
This piece experiments with a multitude of texts, ranging from personal secrets to well-known stories, presenting a multi-sensory experience for the astute audience member.