
A Season In The Congo
translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak This play by renowned poet and political activist Aimé Césaire recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumb...
View full detailstranslated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak This play by renowned poet and political activist Aimé Césaire recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumb...
View full detailsFading southern belle Blanche DuBois is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner...
View full detailsOn the cusp of independence, cultures collide in a bedroom in Singapore. As the Vietnam War rages on, the English-educated scholar Lee Hua Min—“the...
View full detailsWelcome to the surreal world of Boom, where civil servants wake the dead, corpses are terrified of cremation, old women are besieged in their homes...
View full details'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returne...
View full detailsSingapore’s most promising playwright presents his sophomore collection of plays, including Charged, winner of the 2011 The Straits Times’ Life! Th...
View full detailsThis collection of four plays by Alfian Sa’at explores the themes that have become a hallmark of the playwright’s work: national identity, racial r...
View full detailsAlfian Sa’at explores the Malay identity and racial relations in this third volume of the Collected Plays series. This volume collects plays writte...
View full detailsAlfian Sa’at’s The Asian Boys Trilogy is a fascinating, insightful tour through the lives and loves of the gay community in Singapore. In the campy...
View full detailsFrom one of Singapore’s most garlanded playwrights comes his first collection of published plays, including Autumn Tomyam, winner of Best Original ...
View full detailsIn veteran playwright Desmond Sim’s first collection for students, food and family ground seven heartwarming plays as sons and daughters, fathers a...
View full detailsThe Necessary Stage is at the forefront of social and community theatre in Singapore. Its plays, created through research and collaboration, engage...
View full detailsDragonflies is the story of a family fighting for survival in a hostile world, looking for somewhere to call home, and something that might look li...
View full detailsEclipse takes an intimate glimpse into the historical partition of India and Pakistan through the eyes of three generations of men, as they embark ...
View full detailsWhat do Physics, three bears and a stroke have in common? Take a journey with Elaine, a middle-aged Physics teacher, as she explains the theory of ...
View full detailsEdited by Lucas Ho and featuring an introduction by Dr Philip Holden, Faith Ng: Plays Volume One gathers together eight plays from one of Singapore...
View full detailsThe maestro of political plays is back and his latest offering in a decade, Fear of Writing, is a groundbreaking commentary with its finger on the ...
View full detailsNixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer played a crucial role in bringing opera back to life as a contemporary art form, and they have been pop...
View full detailsThis anthology consists of twelve plays by Huzir Sulaiman, Checkpoint Theatre’s Joint Artistic Director. Based in Singapore, Huzir is one of Southe...
View full detailsOriginally conceived as a novel but then transformed into a play by Ayn Rand, Ideal is the story of beautiful but tormented actress Kay Gonda. Accu...
View full detailsIn the Company of Heroes, an anthology of seven plays by seasoned theatre practitioner Verena Tay, taps into the realm of myth and archetype, while...
View full detailsEdited by Lucas Ho and featuring an interview with the playwright by Huzir Sulaiman, Joel Tan: Plays Volume 1 is a compilation of seven remarkable ...
View full detailsThe swinging 1960s. A nightclub in Singapore. A one night stand that turns into true love. Or not? In Mimi Fan, Singapore playwright Lim Chor Pee w...
View full detailsA man stabs an MP at a Meet-the-People Session. But this is not their story. It is the story of the man’s girlfriend, an Indonesian maid who wants ...
View full detailsOff Centre is The Necessary Stage’s landmark play in the history of Singapore theatre. First staged to great acclaim in 1993 under the direction of...
View full detailsFall in love with Singapore’s most prominent feminist playwright. Ovidia Yu dissects all things female—from breasts to virginity, motherhood to les...
View full detailsIn November 2012, local theatre company The Necessary Stage launched Plays for Schools, the fourth collection of plays by the award-winning local p...
View full detailsA young man and woman meet by chance and fall instantly in love. But their families are bitter enemies, and in order to be together the two lovers ...
View full detailsTom Stoppard's reputation as a playwright was made when his dazzling debut, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, opened at the National Theatre. ...
View full detailsThis collection of 6 plays contains some of Sharma’s best and most popular early works. 3 of them, Lanterns Never Go Out, Still Building and More h...
View full detailsFollowing in the footsteps of the earlier Shorts 1, this second instalment represents some of Sharma’s best and most popular early works. The plays...
View full detailsThe Sisters Islands and Pulau Senang: two satellite islands off the coast of Singapore, small but rich in story. This volume brings together two re...
View full detailsLet Tan Tarn How, one of Singapore’s most controversial playwrights, take you on a journey that confronts the social and political issues facing Si...
View full detailsThree specially selected school plays by seasoned theatre practitioner Verena Tay, including the award-winning The Car. These three plays tap into ...
View full detailsThe Complete Works of Kuo Pao Kun Volume 4 - Plays in English had collected and edited both published and previously unpublished texts written in E...
View full detailsOn 5 July 1981, Sir Stamford Raffles leaves his pedestal by the Singapore River and pays a visit to Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew at the Istana. What...
View full detailsAbandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pur...
View full detailsTALAQ (First self-published in 1999)Talaq came under the media spotlight in 2000, when the Public Entertainment Licensing Unit (PELU) in Singapore ...
View full detailsAn unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the yo...
View full detailsFourteen stimulating literary works that shine a new light on Singapore’s first foreign minister and one of its most eloquent and farsighted leader...
View full detailsThis anthology of acclaimed plays includes Faith Ng’s For Better or for Worse (nominated for Best Original Script in The Straits Times Life! Theatr...
View full detailsThose Who Can’t, Teach turns the spotlight on the madcap lives of teachers and students in a typical secondary school in Singapore. As the teachers...
View full detailsThe hospital air conditioner is in need of service again. 4 bodies awaiting identification and autopsy, wake up at the morgue, in anticipation of t...
View full detailsTrilogy is a collection of three plays by Haresh Sharma that explore the fundamentals of text and realism by scrutinising pressing issues that affe...
View full detailsThis is the first volume in a series of play collections published by Checkpoint Theatre that showcase the exciting work of a new generation of Sin...
View full detailstranslated by Marian Schwartz Walpurgis Night, by acclaimed Russian writer Venedikt Erofeev, is considered a classic in the playwright's homeland. ...
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