“Directed by Koh Wan Ching (known for arresting, colourful visuals), the oblique, wandering text is given gorgeous form as the play throws us overboard into a world where climate change discourse is the only thing worth fearing and making conversation about.” — Bakchormeeboy
“…a complex play that questions what we are going to do when everything that we know has changed—whether that’s within a domestic relationship, or on a global level.” — Isaac Tan, Centre 42 Citizen Reviewer
I know we’ve barely even met, and I hope you’ll forgive me for saying this. Because I want to say… it’s terrifying—to live. That we’re expected to imagine how we are to go on living, when we know what we know. About the world. About the way we’re going, about how little control we really have.
Weather changes are converging on the equator. Fish are boiling, beaches are drowning, seashells are breaking, and palm trees are coming down. Meanwhile a mother searches for a lost son, humans look for otters, and a Merlion keeps track of change. There is a timeline, or a deadline, depending on how you want to look at it. A line could be crossed… or have we already crossed it?
Director Koh Wan Ching and playwright Andrew Sutherland revisit a work originally performed by the graduating students from the Intercultural Theatre Institute in 2019 with Grace Kalaiselvi, Irfan Kasban, Jeramy Lim, Liz Sergeant Tan and Shahid Nasheer for this new staging.
RELATION TO QUIET RIOT
Take a moment and think about your future. What do you see?
Do you ever think about the climate crisis?
Take a moment and think about extinction. Irreversible loss.
Erasure. Having no place to go.
Why don’t we speak? Why can’t we change?
What would you do? Pray? Buy a bamboo straw? Hug your
children closer to you?
A line could be crossed and you would very slowly cease to be.
Would you still say, life goes on?
With the support of Arts Fund, BinjaiTree and Hong Leong Foundation.
Artist Sharing by Playwright Andrew Sutherland and Director Koh Wan Ching, of a line could be crossed and you would slowly cease to be
If you have questions about the workshops, please contact the Fringe at info@singaporefringe.com or 6440 8115.
1. Intimate Catastrophes – A Writing Workshop
Date/Time: Sunday 3 January 2021, 2-4pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
Workshop Fee: Pay what you can, suggested SGD 10
Participants: Ages 18 and up, with an interest in writing
Register at: https://bit.ly/m1sff2021intimate
Deadline for registration: 20 December 2020
Workshop participants will explore ways of witnessing and responding to ecological phenomena in writing for performance. Participants will be provided with a set of prompts to respond to, with a focus on finding the writer’s personal stake in the prompt, and exploring how to embody the macro within the small and intimate.
Participants will be asked to write short drafts of text during the workshop time, as well as asked to share their drafts and thoughts among the workshop group.
2. Everything is Connected – On Devising
Date/Time: Sunday 27 December 2020, 2-4pm
Venue: The Necessary Stage Black Box
(278 Marine Parade Road #B1-02, Marine Parade Community Building, Singapore 449282)
Workshop Fee: Pay what you can, suggested SGD 10
Participants: Ages 13 and up, with an interest in theatre or environmental issues
Register at: https://bit.ly/m1sff2021everything
Deadline for registration: 20 December 2020
In this talk and workshop, Wan Ching will share her strategies of working with environmental concerns in theatre making and how they affect her devising process. She will draw examples from her work with companies, as well as self-produced work including precise purpose of being broken and the Tiny Theatre series created during lockdown. She will then work with participants on their chosen materials and develop potential devising tools with them.
Participants will be asked to bring in material that they feel strongly about, or materials that relate to environmental concerns. These can be self-written texts, found texts, images, music, objects or sets of movements.
“Directed by Koh Wan Ching (known for arresting, colourful visuals), the oblique, wandering text is given gorgeous form as the play throws us overboard into a world where climate change discourse is the only thing worth fearing and making conversation about.” — Bakchormeeboy
“…a complex play that questions what we are going to do when everything that we know has changed—whether that’s within a domestic relationship, or on a global level.” — Isaac Tan, Centre 42 Citizen Reviewer
I know we’ve barely even met, and I hope you’ll forgive me for saying this. Because I want to say… it’s terrifying—to live. That we’re expected to imagine how we are to go on living, when we know what we know. About the world. About the way we’re going, about how little control we really have.
Weather changes are converging on the equator. Fish are boiling, beaches are drowning, seashells are breaking, and palm trees are coming down. Meanwhile a mother searches for a lost son, humans look for otters, and a Merlion keeps track of change. There is a timeline, or a deadline, depending on how you want to look at it. A line could be crossed… or have we already crossed it?
This is a work originally performed by the graduating students from the Intercultural Theatre Institute in 2019. Director Koh Wan Ching and playwright Andrew Sutherland revisit this work for this new staging. The performers are Grace Kalaiselvi, Irfan Kasban, Jeramy Lim, Liz Sergeant Tan and Shahid Nasheer.
RELATION TO QUIET RIOT
Take a moment and think about your future. What do you see?
Do you ever think about the climate crisis?
Take a moment and think about extinction. Irreversible loss.
Erasure. Having no place to go.
Why don’t we speak? Why can’t we change?
What would you do? Pray? Buy a bamboo straw? Hug your
children closer to you?
A line could be crossed and you would very slowly cease to be.
Would you still say, life goes on?
With the support of Arts Fund, BinjaiTree and Hong Leong Foundation.
Artist Sharing by Playwright Andrew Sutherland and Director Koh Wan Ching, of a line could be crossed and you would slowly cease to be
If you have questions about the workshops, please contact the Fringe at info@singaporefringe.com or 6440 8115.
1.Intimate Catastrophes – A Writing Workshop
Date/Time: Sunday 3 January 2021, 2-4pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
Workshop Fee: Pay what you can, suggested SGD 10
Participants: Ages 18 and up, with an interest in writing
Register at: https://bit.ly/m1sff2021intimate
Deadline for registration: 20 December 2020
Workshop participants will explore ways of witnessing and responding to ecological phenomena in writing for performance. Participants will be provided with a set of prompts to respond to. The focus is on finding the writer’s personal stake in the prompt. They will explore how to embody the macro within the small and intimate.
Participants will be asked to write short drafts of text during the workshop. They will be asked to share their drafts and thoughts among the workshop group.
2. Everything is Connected – On Devising
Date/Time: Sunday 27 December 2020, 2-4pm
Venue: The Necessary Stage Black Box
(278 Marine Parade Road #B1-02, Marine Parade Community Building, Singapore 449282)
Workshop Fee: Pay what you can, suggested SGD 10
Participants: Ages 13 and up, with an interest in theatre or environmental issues
Register at: https://bit.ly/m1sff2021everything
Deadline for registration: 20 December 2020
Wan Ching will share how she works with environmental concerns in theatre making, and how they affect her devising process. She will draw examples from her work with companies. Other examples are from her self-produced work, and the Tiny Theatre series created during lockdown. She will then work with participants on their chosen materials. Together, they will develop potential devising tools.
Participants will be asked to bring in material that they feel strongly about, or materials that relate to environmental concerns. These can be self-written texts, found texts, images, music, objects or sets of movements.
