Past Productions & Events
- Thick Beats for Good Girls
- Works in Development 2017
- Recalling Mother (Adelaide)
- FRAGO
- Normal 2017
- Works in Development 2016
- Recalling Mother (Brisbane)
- The Last Bull: A Life In Flamenco
- #UnicornMoment 2016
- Cogito Translation Workshop (Kinosaki)
- Recalling Mother 2016
- The Good, the Bad and the Sholay 2015
- Book Launch of Joel Tan: Plays Volume 1
- Normal 2015
- The Way We Go
- Book Launch of This Is My Family: New Singapore Plays Volume 2
- Playwrights and a Sense of Place
- (+65) Singapore Calling
- #UnicornMoment
- Writing Lab 2014
- Associate Artist Play Readings
- Tales of Two Cities
- Atomic Jaya 2013
- Book Launch of Huzir Sulaiman: Collected Plays 1998-2012
- Cogito Translation Workshop (Tokyo)
- For Better or for Worse
- Occupation 2012
- City Night Songs
- Book Launch of Voices Clear and True: New Singapore Plays Volume 1
- Checkpoint Celebrates!
- The Weight of Silk on Skin
- The Good, the Bad and the Sholay 2011
- The Power of Notions / Notions of Power
- wo(men)
- Recalling Mother 2009
- Cogito
- A Language of Their Own
- Election Day
- Opiume
- Atomic Jaya 2003
- Occupation 2002
Joint Artistic Directors Claire Wong and Huzir Sulaiman spent three weeks in Japan as part of the Kinosaki International Arts Center (KIAC) Artist in Residence Program 2016. They worked with translator Dr. Ken Takiguchi, director Doppo Narita, and a team of actors (Ichiro Nakayama, Noriko Kito and Naoko Kuboniwa) to translate Huzir’s Cogito from English to Japanese.
Paying close attention to the specific context of Japanese language and culture, they built a shared understanding of the play and worked on the floor to bring out its complexities and nuances. This workshop was a follow-up to Checkpoint Theatre’s Cogito Translation Workshop in Tokyo in 2012 and 2013, where selected scenes of the play were explored and translated.
The team conducted two well-received sharing sessions with the public at KIAC, which included an open workshop, readings of translated excerpts, and a dialogue session with a responsive audience. Checkpoint Theatre will return to KIAC in February 2017 for a second rehearsal process, which will conclude in a lecture-performance of Cogito.
Read more about the process in “Making Sure Singapore isn’t Lost in Translation”, penned by Huzir for The Straits Times.
This project is supported by Japan Foundation Asia Center and Singapore International Foundation.