Common Room
16 July – 2 August 2026
Common Room by ants chua is a celebration of the emotional, physical, and relational work of queer living.
Vivid, soulful, and sharply funny, Common Room explores the multi-layered relationship between two queer individuals who have been drawn by circumstance into a shared-living arrangement in contemporary Singapore. In probing the tension of interpersonal frictions amidst the domestic routine of cohabitation, Common Room reflects on the powerful human yearning for connection, understanding, and community.
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Secondary: The Musical
9 – 26 April 2026
Winner of Production of Year at the 2025 ST Life Theatre Awards, Secondary: The Musical returns in April! Praised for its “stunning cast, script and music” (The Straits Times), playwright-composer weish’s “astonishing magnum opus” (Jom Media) is a must-watch for everyone in Singapore.
Delve into the vibrant world of Huxley Secondary School alongside young teacher Lilin as she tries her best to make it through just one more school term. With the pressures of Singapore’s education system intensifying the complex lives of both students and teachers, can any of them survive unscathed? Shaped and brought to vivid life by the sure hand of acclaimed director-dramaturg Huzir Sulaiman, this powerful work forges a contemporary landscape of storytelling unlike any other musical.
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The Fourth Trimester
20 – 30 November 2025
Faith Ng’s beloved The Fourth Trimester returns in November, having clinched Production of the Year and Best Original Script at the 2023 ST Life Theatre Awards. This compelling play profoundly encapsulates the experience of life and parenthood in Singapore, and is essential viewing for all.
The first month is always the roughest.
Exhausted from battling sleepless nights and endless diaper changes, first-time parents Samantha and Aaron find themselves overwhelmed caring for their newborn. Close friends rally around them in support, but picture-perfect couple Lisa and Daniel are beginning to feel the strain of family life on their relationship, while Ann yearns for a space of her own. Next door, newlyweds Sofia and Johan deal with the pressures of starting a family. Faced with the tangle of life and its hurdles, ‘adulting’ has never seemed so complicated.
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Escape To Batam
21 – 24 August 2025
What do stories of war tell us about human resilience and how we care for those closest to us? How does telling these stories help us to comfort and to heal?
Created by Claire Wong and Huzir Sulaiman, Escape to Batam is a delicate tapestry of the past and the present, weaving the remarkable lived experiences of Ming, who spent his boyhood on the rural island of Batam to escape the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, with his daughter’s personal stories of family, loss and grief felt in the years since her father’s passing. Drawing parallels from their different life journeys, daughter Claire finds herself discovering what it means to live with the pain of loving those who have left us, and how to carry on for those who are still with us.
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Statement Piece
3 – 13 April 2025
With keen insight and sharp wit, Myle Yan Tay’s Statement Piece interrogates the purpose of art in this country, the limits of our ambitions, and the legacies we leave.
In the wake of a loss that echoes through the nation, a gallerist prepares to open her first exhibition after months of immense pressure. But when the final painting arrives, delivered by the artist Gopal Rangaraj himself, Lily is horrified. With her career at stake, even a visit from her artist girlfriend Marjia can’t cushion the blow. As three worldviews collide, how much should be sacrificed in the name of Art?
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Hard Mode
18 – 26 Oct 2024
From the powerhouse team behind The Fourth Trimester (2023 Production of The Year, Straits Times Life Theatre Awards) and Normal (2015 and 2017), playwright Faith Ng, director Claire Wong and dramaturg Huzir Sulaiman return with Hard Mode, a riveting deepdive into the world of Gen Alpha.
The Sengkang Squad has lived in Sengkang their whole life, and things don’t really change around here. Except nothing is quite the same anymore.
With mounting pressures from parents, friends, school, and their own expectations, these teens don’t feel like children any longer — but also no closer to being grown-ups. What exactly is this limbo stage called teenagehood? And where is the tutorial for being an adult?
A love letter to the perennial task of growing up and navigating the world, Hard Mode is essential viewing for anyone who has ever struggled with adolescence. Critically acclaimed playwright Faith Ng’s new work embraces the beautiful messiness of youth and friendship with her keen understanding and sensitive portrayal of life as we know it.
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