Final Year Individual Project 2022

Original works conceived and performed by ITI’s graduands.

The Final Year Individual Project (FYiP) is a critical and integral aspect of Intercultural Theatre Institute’s actor training programme. Students are prompted to think about it from the very first day of school. FYiP combines the technical skills and objectives of performance making with the exploratory freedom of a creative platform. It is primarily student driven, where teachers act only as mentors and guides. FYiP is in consideration every time a student engages in Post Modular Lab work, after learning a traditional form. However, such are the demands of life in ITI, students only get a few weeks in the Third Year to focus solely on FYiP.

Featuring: Daisy Zhao Xiaoqing, Ismael Gallaza Pantao, Jemima Dunn, Kaleem Zafar, Karlwinn, Ng Yuan Ci, Oliver S. K. Wu, Peh Jun Kai, Ruthi Lalrinawmi, Wan Ahmad, Will Wong Keng Ip, Wong Jin Yi

Group A: 1–3 September

Eggs & Stones
By Will Wong Keng Ip

Which came first — life or death?
Inspired by Existentialism, myths, and events happening around the world.
This is a story about the world, others, me and you.

Performed in Cantonese 

Peony
By Ng Yuan Ci 

In a faraway kingdom, there lived a princess named Peony and her father, the King. In order to protect his daughter from the outside world, the king kept her away in a tall tower. The only way she could leave is for her pet bird to bring her a prince to marry, so she worked hard to help it fly. One day, the wind finally came…

Elected Jinn
By Kaleem Zafar 

A jinn promises to grant all his master’s wishes in exchange for freedom from the lamp. Will he keep to his word, or is it merely an empty promise?

Most lies are harmless, and serve to avoid uncomfortable situations, help make a good impression or benefit others. But what about the lies and empty promises made by our leaders? Elected Jinn is an exploration of such politics.

Mentefuwaley Libun (One Who Became A Woman)
By Karlwinn 

The experiences and struggles of transgender lives and the story of a person who became a woman.

Advisory: Mature themes 

Love Monster
By Jemima Dunn 

Most people talk about love as a feeling, an experience or an action. For this character, however, love is a physical being inside of her, a creature she likes to call ‘Love Monster’. Love Monster is an ever-present part of her until a harrowing sexual assault rips the creature from her stomach, leading her on a journey to reclaim her body and rebuild the home inside of her for Love Monster.

Advisory: Mentions of sexual assault and mature themes

The Dream of Butterflies
By Daisy Zhao Xiaoqing

If butterflies could dream, what would they dream of? Would they fantasize about becoming people, or about family, love, a sense of belonging and freedom? Would they ever wake from their dreams and know what is real?

Performed in English and Mandarin 

Group B: 8–10 September

SHRINE
By Wan Ahmad  

A mental health worker learns about a horrific incident involving one of his clients. He tries to process the news for the ninth time.

Advisory: Suicidal themes and coarse language

Blue
By Peh Jun Kai

When did we get lost on the land we grew up in? Where do we go now?
Where did the river first flow, and where did it end?

Inspired by singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell’s 1971 seminal album Blue, this piece follows the hopes, dreams and fears of two characters: Wanderer and Financial Planner, as they grapple with the choices they made and the people they've become.

Poppet
By Wong Jin Yi

A young woman finds her journal from her teenage years, and reawakens memories of an insular world where childhood games mixed with love spells, friendship and competition were indistinguishable, and the price for breaking unspoken rules became devastatingly high.

A piece exploring the unreliability of memory, the lies we choose to tell ourselves, and why.

Advisory: Mentions of sexual assault and some disturbing imagery

The Night Before the Wedding
By Ismael Gallaza Pantao

Yusof is stuck in an arranged marriage setup he cannot refuse. The night before his wedding in a Maguindanaon community, things take a turn when an unexpected visitor enters his tulugan (bridegroom quarter). What ensues is an intense exchange about their special friendship alongside issues of cultural taboos and its limitations, the complexities of love, and what the future holds for them…

Performed in English, Maguindanao and Tagalog

Inferno
By Ruthi Lalrinawmi

A girl slumbers. Her friends Prosty and Bear wake her, demanding what she kept from them when she decided to sleep. The girl is dependent on Sweets. But have the Sweets kept her from everyone that she loved? Are Prosty and Bear really there for her?

B♂♀h (Both) 
By Oliver S. K. Wu 

Both is about Charlie the mouse who lives in an all-mice-are-the-same world. As this mouse grows up, it finds it more and more difficult to be itself. The mouse questions all the taboos in this world, and wants to make a change so that it can be itself.

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