Join us at The Fourth Trimester Fundraiser Night for an intimate and delightful evening of theatre, and to champion Checkpoint Theatre’s telling of original Singapore stories!
For a $380 donation, you will receive:
- • A premium seat for The Fourth Trimester on Friday, 21 November 2025, 8pm
- • Exclusive Front of House intermission refreshments
- • 250% tax deduction receipt
- • Acknowledgement as our Checkpoint Champion
Register here for The Fourth Trimester Fundraiser Tickets by 31 October 2025.
If you would like to make a general donation to Checkpoint Theatre outside of The Fourth Trimester Fundraiser Night, please do so here.
Every dollar goes towards our mission of telling original Singapore stories and continues to support our vibrant artistic landscape. Thank you for your generosity and support for Singapore theatre!
Your support will help us to:
- Further our No Questions Asked (NQA) initiative, giving the gift of Singapore theatre to anyone who may not have the means to afford a ticket to a Checkpoint Theatre production;
- Give equal access to The Fourth Trimester for d/Deaf audiences and others through creative captioning and Singapore Sign Language interpretation;
- Run The Playmakers x Checkpoint Theatre: A Parallel Arts Experience for Families, our new drop-off programme for children in collaboration with The Artground, allowing parents to enjoy The Fourth Trimester without worrying about childcare; and
- Continue developing original Singapore stories and nurturing our artists and collaborators.
These vital initiatives come with significant costs. By purchasing a Fundraiser Ticket, you are directly investing in artists, stories, and ideas that define Singapore’s cultural landscape.
We have limited seats available, and we would be delighted to have you join us!
Please reach out to us at [email protected] with any questions or for more information.
Checkpoint Theatre presents The Fourth Trimester by Faith Ng
Faith Ng’s beloved The Fourth Trimester returns, 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.
Touted as a “a must-watch for all sorts of people” (The Straits Times), The Fourth Trimester runs 20–30 November 2025 at the Drama Centre Theatre.
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.
Incredibly rich, humorous and compassionate, The Fourth Trimester is achingly familiar in its portrayal of family life and all its uncertainties. With sensitive, nuanced direction by Claire Wong and insightful dramaturgy by Huzir Sulaiman, Faith Ng’s work casts a refreshing and timely light on parenthood, identity, and what it means to be happy in contemporary Singapore.
Expect the unexpected in this hopeful and heartfelt ode to the places we call home, and the people we choose as family.
About Checkpoint Theatre
Who are we?
Established in 2002, Checkpoint Theatre is a company of multi-disciplinary storytellers. We focus on creating and presenting original Singapore content with strong writing, performance and direction, across different media, disciplines and platforms.
With honesty and humour, head and heart, we produce and develop vibrant and important contemporary Asian stories that connect with, challenge, and inspire both local and international audiences.
We are the home of new Singapore playwriting, and we nurture the next generation of Singapore theatre-makers and creatives.
How does Checkpoint Theatre make an impact with your donation?
There’s no simple answer to this question, but we’re proud to share some of the ways Checkpoint Theatre has been working hard to stretch every dollar of your donation:
- For the past 23 years, we have been exclusively telling original Singapore stories that belong on a world-class stage. We spend 1.5–4 years researching, developing, and writing a new script, with the rehearsal and production process then taking 1–2 more years.
- We have spent the past decade creating and conducting educational programmes in schools, for both students and educators. We are also committed to sharing the theatremaking process with the public, in order to nurture and inspire the next generation of artists and audiences.
- We pay fair and progressive wages to our artistic professionals, ensuring everyone in our community is taken care of.
- We continue to seek different avenues to make the arts accessible to all, launching our No Questions Asked initiative just last year, so audiences of any financial means can enjoy our productions, no questions asked.
Telling original Singapore stories that matter takes thousands of hours, hundreds of theatremakers, and the support of you, our dear audience. Please donate to Checkpoint Theatre – make a meaningful difference by allowing us to continue enriching Singapore’s cultural landscape and uplifting Singapore’s artistic community.
