Original works conceived and performed by ITI graduating actor-students
The final-year theatremaking individual project is a critical and integral aspect of Intercultural Theatre Institute’s curriculum for actor training. This is a project that the student begins thinking about, preparing and planning for the moment s/he starts ITI. Combining the objectives of a performance with the exploratory intentions of a creative platform, FYiP is the search that each student in ITI undertakes in order to find his or her own voice in performance.
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Show programme available for download here.
Group 1A
By Namaha Mazoomdar
We read the great Indian epics; magnificent stories of brave and noble Kings, Princes and Warriors. Their courage is lauded and their stories are sung for generations. The lives of these men spring freely and naturally from the circumstances that prevailed. And these were lives of fathers, sons, brothers and uncles. While you may read on interminably about Lakshman and Karna, you may not hear of, or remember, Urmila or Uruvi, their respective wives. Left with no choices, they, no less noble or courageous than their husbands, had to find their own peace in the chaos that engulfed them. Is the world really any different today?
By Teo Dawn
The Eskimo Wolf Trap is a practised myth that no one knows about. A bloodied knife stuck in a bed of snow eventually kills the wolf, which drinks its own blood through a sliced tongue.
"I am a hunter and I am hunted. I am a survivor, but I have died a thousand times over."
By Isabelle Low
In a world where we hear news of losses and tragedies so quickly and so conveniently, it is easy to feel sympathy. Here’s what the newspapers do not reveal about Clara’s life and what she feels beyond her status as a victim of tragedy. Here’s a possible snippet of her life that a 200-word article is unable to reveal.
By Vanessa Wu
29... 30...30...30...
The clock is ticking...ticking...ticking...
Will She find the flame before it’s too late?
Or is the flame even what she’s looking for?
By Shirley Tan
Reaching 40 soon, she is under pressure from her obsessive husband, Dave, to bear sons. She compares herself to an enslaved Chinese bride and admires the girl’s courage to flee, even if it is in vain. She does not love Dave, but had married him to fulfil her father’s wishes and to escape from her nagging mother. She questions whether she can bring happiness to her child in such a marriage. Maybe she should run away, before she gets pregnant.
一个住在Six Avenue洋房的女人，可以去的地方只有家里，她每天有忙不完的家务。
她有一个管她管得很严的老公Dave，要她替他生个儿子，继承香火，可是结婚两年了，她连一粒蛋都没生过，把Dave急死了！他快50岁了，她要40岁了，Dave更急了！
不久前她偷偷上网看YouTube, 看到一个中国女大学生被非法拐卖和囚禁的新闻，那个女人最后落在两个农夫兄弟手里，成为他们传宗接代和泄欲的工具，还给他们生个儿子。她没有放弃自己，一有机会就逃跑！就算疯了，也没有忘记逃跑！
而她呢？
(Performed in Mandarin)
By Henrik Cheng
There is comfort
when you know what to do.
There is safety
in doing what you remember.
But what happens when remembering
is why you cannot do?
Meet Sheng Yu.
By Desmond Soh
Each life deserves a celebration; each death, a memorial.
But we only remember when it's gone.
Take a trip, in this performance-installation, together with the Ice-cream Man.
By Sonia Kwek
“Are you ashamed of your desire?” (In the Realm of the Senses, 1976)
The maidenly Moon Goddess harbours a dark secret — she grows a penis every full moon. Meanwhile, the dancing Lady of the Night has a problem — she is unable to orgasm. Can we embrace our deepest desires without being a slave to them? Does purity matter in the pursuit of satisfying our appetite? Subverting the archetypes of the virgin and the whore, Hymen Instinct is a look at the right to an erotic experience of life and sex, where it all begins.
Advisory: sexual content and nudity
In a forest, an elephant fell in love with a tree.
And then?
And then I'll have to show you.
"A shoe always stays a shoe. But a pile of women's shoes... There should be a story."
Served by texts of various authors and the body of a single actress, these shoes will get a voice to reveal their song.
Group 2B
“There is good and there is bad... they call it dharma and ad-dharma. Right and wrong, good and evil, gods and demons. But it’s never so simple… never black and white.”
A performance based on the tale of Duryodhana from the Mahabharata, who is killed through deception by the ideal man of the contemporary world, Sri Krishna. Although Duryodhana is a villain in the original play, here he is portrayed in a more balanced light.
(Performed in Sanskrit and English)
Somewhere in the universe, lies a planet made of countless stars delicately sewn together. One morning, a gaping hole in the ground is discovered. It is suspected to be made using a heavy metal-like object. While the hunt for the culprit goes on, the hole continues to grow bigger…
在浩瀚无边的宇宙里，有一座由一颗颗色彩斑澜、绚丽夺目的繁星编织而成的星球。这座星球的锋芒太过毕露，遭到无名物体的眼红。一气之下，这无名物体用了铁一般的凶器刺破地面，造成裂缝。人们开始恐慌，把自己关在家里，深怕跌进裂缝里，从此消失无踪。大家渐渐地对周遭的人与事物起了疑心，此刻裂缝已渐渐变大，形成其丑无比的黑洞……
(Performed in Mandarin)
Sorry dear, but it seems like no one’s coming.
Well, except the stench of your decomposing body. That’s coming pretty strong.
Someone should have discovered you by now.
Why isn’t anyone coming for you?
Oh, shut up.
A man digging and filling potholes on the beach.
Photo by Bernie Ng.
Production
DATE16 - 27 May 2017
TIMEMultiple Timings
VENUEIntercultural Theatre Institute
ADMISSIONPrivate Event (Please contact us at events@iti.edu.sg if you are interested to attend)
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