Friday, 9 July 2010
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
Moving with Awareness Experiential Workshop
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Jocelyn Chua is a drama educator and theatre performer currently based in Singapore. She pursued an MA in Performance Making at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK, where she obtained a Distinction for her graduation performance And Whose Heart is not a Hungry Fish?, a self-devised solo piece partly inspired by physical theatre training techniques. Jocelyn has performed in various theatre productions both locally and overseas, as well as trained with various performance practitioners in contact improvisation, dance theatre and devised theatre practice, including Germany-based Fabrik Potsdam, Serbia-based DAH Theatre Research Centre, Japan-based Leni Basso and Singapore-based Ecnad. She is currently teaching drama and playwriting at various local institutions.
Saturday, 17 October 2009
Singapore Writers Festival 2009
A hasty cremation, dreams of being gifted, an intimate first date, a woman who can’t commit suicide, a father’s ‘love’—five touching stories of parenthood and coupling from five exciting writers. For a thought-provoking time, make a date with the members of Magdalena (Singapore) as we read excerpts from our latest plays and short prose…
Works to be featured:
- ‘Selling Your Daughter for a Pig and a Carton of Cigarettes’ by Dora Tan
- ‘Gifted’ by Dean Lundquist
- ‘Questions Tied in a Knot’ by Shelly Quick
- ‘The Woman Who Swallowed a Knife’ by Jocelyn Chua
- ‘The First Time’ by Carolyn Camoens
About the Writers:
- Carolyn Camoens is a full-time PR consultant and part-time radio presenter. She has written for film and theatre, and performs when she can. Writing is a passion she indulges every opportunity possible. She is privileged to have had the opportunity to learn from some of the best local and international talents.
- Dora Tan has written stage plays and screenplays including 41 Hours, Out of Control, Just Late (2008 Wild Rice Singapore Theatre Festival) and I think I do (gala finals, Short and Sweet Singapore 2009). Her short stories include 'Selling your daughter for a pig and a carton of cigarettes' (2nd prize in NAC’s Golden Point Award 2007).
- Jocelyn Chua is a published writer and theatre performer currently based in Singapore. Her work has been featured in the regional anthology Silverfish New Writing 7 as well as in a debut book of self-written stage scripts "Restless and Other Plays". Jocelyn continues to engage with aspects of writing and performance, where such themes as identity, desire, memory and alienation are often explored.
- Dean Lundquist is an award-winning American playwright and director who now resides in Singapore. His plays have been produced in numerous productions spanning the globe. His hit play, I Can Tell Your Handbag is Fake, recently made its New York premiere as part of the Samuel French Festival at Playwrights Horizons. He is currently pursuing his MFA in dramatic writing at NYU-Tisch Asia. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc., and The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent labor union.
- Shelly Quick was born in Kingston Ontario, Canada, and has been based in Singapore for the past thirteen years. She recently returned to writing after a long hiatus and has been a member of Play Pen since 2007.
Magdalena (Singapore) (http://www.magdalenasingapore.com) comprises a group of local arts practitioners that aims to promote learning and networking amongst women in the creative arts. In 2006, we organised Crossroads, an international festival of women in theatre. In 2007, we started Play Pen, a writing support group. Four plays written by Play Pen members were produced as Blood Binds for W!ld Rice’s OCBC Singapore Theatre Festival 2008. Parents and Children, Lovers and Dates is the latest public reading of texts by Play Pen members.
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Work Presentation at DAH Theatre International School 2009 in Belgrade
Photo by Amy Mathews © 2009
Photo by Amy Mathews © 2009Monday, 8 June 2009
FARM: New on L.C.D.
New on Local Creative Directory: Jocelyn Chua www.farm.sg
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Short+Sweet Singapore 2009
Flexible Performance Space, LASALLE College of the Arts
www.shortandsweet.org/shortsweet/singapore
TICKETS @ The Arts House Box Office
Address: 1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore 179429
Hotline: +65 6332 6919 Facsimile: +65 6339 9695
Email: tickets@toph.com.sg
www.theartshouse.com.sg
Canadian Tuxedo
By Nicole Pandolfo
Directed by Corinne Teo
Cast: Musa Fazal ,Stuart Lightheart
In need for money to marry his pregnant girlfriend, Sal helps a mafioso friend to kill a guy. The only problem is that this one ‘hit’ may turn out to have multiple targets…
Dickatorial
By Vicki Yang
Directed by Darren Guo
Cast: Hadri, Azizul, Woon Yong, Koustav
Fed up with his housemate’s infatuation with a new sex doll, Egan decides to get one of his own. But having a sex doll becomes a lot less fun when politics get in the way…
Green Eggs And Hamlet
By Judee Tan
Directed by Delvin Lee
Cast: Muhammed Faizad, Edward Choy, Merle Chen, Fahmy S
Hamlet re-told with a very MTV twist.
The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
By Vince Bailey
Directed by Grace Soo
Cast: To be confirmed
For 60 years, Eric thought his mother had been killed in the London Blitz. The truth was something he could never have imagined.
A Mighty Fortress
By William Kovacsik
Directed by Joanne Tay
Cast: To be confirmed
Singapore 1942 — four young women imprisoned by the Japanese must decide who has the right to survive…
On Display
By Stephanie Gardner
Directed by Michael Quilindo
Cast: To be confirmed
Turns out you can connect with a stranger anywhere… even in an Ikea Display Bedroom.
Things Happen
By Jocelyn Chua
Directed by Mohamad Shaifulbahri Sawaluddin
Cast: Erwin Shah & Faye Wong
Don makes a seemingly innocent surprise visit to Ziggy’s place, only to be surprised himself by an unexpected confrontation….
Straightening Out
By Tay Woo Chiao
Directed by Naresh Ethan Subhash
Cast: To be confirmed
Two folks straighten out a queer argument over a cup of coffee.
Buds
By Nancy Kenny
Directed by Sarah Cheng
Cast: Yi Jun Tan, Endi Asmira
Even when you’re hungover, the Taste Buds still have to go to work.
The Table
By Lyn Coffin
Directed by Ng Yuhui
Cast: Matthew Heys, Debra Teng
A never legally married couple teeters on the brink of a symbolic divorce.
Thursday, 21 May 2009
4th Physical Theatre Festival 2009 in Seoul
by Insource Theatre
at the 4th Physical Theatre Festival 2009 in Seoul, Korea
Dates: 14 & 15 May 2009
Time: 8pm
Venue: Jungbo Theatre
Director: Low Yuen Wei
Perfomers: Low Yuen Wei, Chan Yi Wen, Jocelyn Chua
Lighting Designer: Richard Koh
Multimedia Artist: Chew Kuan Hock
Image by Chew Kuan Hock © 2009
Who has never experienced any of these feelings - anger, sorrow, love, hate, fear, desire, joy...? It is not abnormal to feel it, as it is in our nature. However, it could be out of your normal realm if you have an over abundance of each, and it becomes... poisons. The performance Poisons makes use of liquid form such as H20, chemicals and bubbles to create a theatrical landscape of human complexity imprisoned in the confinement of poisons.
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