Secondary: The Musical
19 – 28 April 2024
School isn’t easy for anyone, whether you’re a student or a teacher. And with exams coming, nobody’s life will be the same.
Pushed and pulled in different directions, Lilin is a young teacher trying to make it through yet another term while helping her students. Battle-worn Secondary 3s Ming, Omar, and Reyansh are trying to handle the challenges in school and at home with bravery and grace. But in a system that values specific kinds of success, can their efforts be recognised?
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Playing With Fire
15 – 25 August 2024
With climate catastrophe on the horizon, why would anyone want to work in oil and gas?
Having secured interviews with several employees of the petrochemical industry, this is the question a determined young writer expects to answer. Instead, Sue Rozario finds herself uncovering a troubling web of connections between the oil and gas industry, Singapore’s modern development, and her own family history. As she delves deeper into her research, she is forced to confront layers of hidden truths – not only of her interviewees’ personal and professional lives, but also of her own.
Playing With Fire shares a profoundly human look into Singapore’s industrial past and present, while placing the complexities of a just energy transition under a microscope.
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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.
Adam has lived in Sengkang his whole life, and things don’t really change around here. Except nothing is quite the same anymore.
The indomitable Sengkang Squad – Adam, Rian and XY – have split up into different secondary schools, and it’s been pretty hard making new friends (they’re betas with no rizz?). K-pop stan besties Arissa and Maya have found community in the huge online fanbase, but somehow nothing’s as lonely as real life. With mounting pressures from parents, friends, school and their own expectations, they 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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