2007-05-30 1. Full Frontal (directed by Li Xie & Peter Sau) 19th June 2007 8pm @ Esplanade Theatre Studio, $30 (before Tote Board Fund subsidy)
Li Xie, a performer, writer, director and mask-maker, will revisit Kuo Pao Kun's A Little White Sailing Boat. The play, which tells of one man's search for redemption, was first staged at the 1982 Singapore Festival of Arts. Li Xie is a recipient of the Young Artist Award (2005) and winner of Life!'s Best Supporting Actress award (2006).A pioneer graduate of Kuo Pao Kun's Theatre Training and Research Programme, Peter Sau is a prolific actor who works with Singapore's leading English, Mandarin and Malay theatre companies. Peter's first foray into directing relooks Tan Tarn How's Machine and explores what happens when two repairmen turn up at the home of two listless sisters.
People who purchased tickets (tickets are with Choon Yen) -Lee Koon -Jin Hao -Wang Lin -Jiamin -Zheng Hang -Ding Yi -Baona -Zhao Xiang -Kian Yang [anyone wants his ticket!]
2. ON NORTH DIVERSION ROAD (young & W!ld) 6-17 June 2007, 8pm with 3pm matinees on Saturdays & Sundays, Play Den @ The Arts House, $15
This powerful play by Filipino playwright Tony Perez reveals ten different couples driving along the same highway, dealing with marriage-on-the-rocks in a range of stunning and surprising ways. Like a symphony in 10 movements, the often hilarious and always heart-wrenching vignettes are woven into a gripping journey of betrayal, and the love and hate it unearths.
Please order your ticket(s) at the Arts House [beside Victoria Theatre]. If need be, call Choon Yen for more details.
3. Wong Kar Wai Dreams (The Finger Players) 13-15 June 2007, 8pm @ Drama Centre Theatre $16, $24, $32, $40 [20% discount available]
A woman dreams of the feted art-house film director, Wong Kar Wai, dreaming of her. She is his leading lady and Singapore is the exotic backdrop of his dream as he slips into nocturnal oblivion.The wall between fiction and reality crumbles as the characters in her dreams come alive on the set, each caught in a vortex of unrequited love, damning secrets, buried memories and missed chances; each laden with longing hearts as they dance the waltz of the wounded soul.
Performed in English, Mandarin & Cantonese with English surtitles
Please order your ticket(s) through SISTIC. If need be, call Choon Yen for more details.
4. Big Fool Lee (directed by Peter Sau) 2-12 Aug 2007 Tue- Fri 8pm, Sat- Sun 3pm & 8pm @ Drama Centre Theatre
Tues to Thurs Evening/ Sat & Sun Matinee/ Sun Evening:$54, $44, $29Fri & Sat Evening:$60, $50, $34 [students' discount - 10%, discount available for Cat 1 & 2 tickets only] [early bird discount (before 10th June) - 20%]
Big Fool Lee is about a legendary storyteller, Lei Dai Soh who left an impact on many generations in Singapore with his exceptional charisma. Let Toy Factory take you through an enchanting journey of Lei Dai Soh, from his days of fame to the day he sadly retired from radio.
Lei Dai Soh, an icon whom many might have heard but not know of, had gone through major setbacks in life. He suffered from depression after losing his brother to WWII but picked himself up & continued to glow in his story-telling career. He mesmerised his listeners with his magnetic voice. He triggered the imagination of many with his unique ability in narrating numerous legends & tales. He later married his wife who was diagnosed with mental illness. He then struggled in a battle with the Speak Mandarin Campaign & was eventually phased out by the introduction of television. This extraordinary man held on to his passion for arts till the day he died. Lei Dai Soh is certainly an honorable icon for his passion, love and respect for arts, life & charity.
Through the eyes of Toy Factory’s production team, learn how we tide the different waves to bring the story of Lei Dai Soh on stage. Travel with us, from this modern society into the 1940s to 1980s, with costumes, sets, lightings & 1 of the most important elements of a play, music. You will not only be humming along the familiar tunes blending in comfortably with the performance but also be pleasantly surprised by our original music. We deliver what was only audible and imagined to a whole new dimension.
A clash between modern & culture. Toy Factory presents to you the most delicate yet delicious slice of Singaporean history in our very own special ways. Big Fool Lee genuinely pushes you to question your negligence & disregard for life and culture.
5. 《天冷就回来》 IF THERE'RE SEASONS… 16-26 Aug 2007, Tue-Fri 8pm, Sat 2.30pm & 8pm, Sun 2.30pm, @ Drama Centre Theatre, -Preview Shows Standard - S$40, S$30, S$20, S$10 (Restricted View)(Preview Shows: 16 Aug'07, 8pm) -Tues-Thurs (8pm) & Sat-Sun (2.30pm) Standard - S$55, S$45, S$25, S$15 (Restricted View) -Fri-Sat (8pm) Standard - S$65, S$55, S$35, S$25 (Restricted View)
[Early Bird Promotion: -20% discount from 1-30 June, for Old Chang Kee customers, LinkPoints members (NTUC, Passion Card, max cardholders, FairPrice Plus cardholders), POPULAR Card members, SAFRA members, Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry members & Suntec Privilenge Card members; -10% discount from 1 July to 15 August 2007]
[Concessions: -10% discount for students from 1 July to 15 August 2007]
The winter of death numbs a lover's pain, The autumn of dreams lies awake in vain, The summer of life sings its passing song, And spring comes again… with courage to hope, and go on.
“If there are seasons I would see snow, but not around here…”
After the painful demise of his girlfriend Jing, Ah Le flies to New York to breathe life into his fading dreams of writing music. There he meets and befriends Ah Qiang, a fellow dream hunter from Singapore, who helps him settle right in. It is a difficult period of transition, but Ah Le soon gets a job working at a restaurant.
While on the job, he encounters Rose, a struggling actress who fits right in with the boys and a beautiful friendship of battered dreams and bruised lives is born. The winds of fate stir and their lives tumble on. An air of romance lingers wistfully, but does an old love really die?
“There are no seasons here, but there is always love…”
CALLING FOR VOLUNTEERS - FULL FRONTAL TECHNICAL CREW! [not recommended for dao du tuan]
Dates are as follows: -1,3,4,5,6,8 june -> rehearsals, 7pm to 11pm. -12th to 16th june -> full runs, most likely daytime. -17th to 20th -> bump in
If you are interested (regardless of your attendance for the dates above), please inform Kian Yang asap!!!
中文学会万岁！
chinese society dance
2007-05-20 hey zhong wen xue hui peeps!
hui qing is around the corner, and as a member of zhong wen xue hui, you'll need to know the chinese society dance! do learn it by yourself, as the seniors and grand seniors will be watching every one of us on hui qing!
here's a video clip of our dance i/cs in action! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6TA4pdlwvc)
do take your initiative to ask those who already know the dance to teach you the dance! see you on hui qing~
