Travel across time and space, and inhabit forgotten worlds.
The gates of Four Horse Road are open once again.

Spanning over 150 years of Singapore history,&nbsp;Four Horse Road&nbsp;is an intimate experience on an epic scale. Rediscover our present through the lens of the past and journey across three heritage buildings along Waterloo Street.

This time, it’s bigger and better. The Theatre Practice’s unforgettable promenade theatre experience returns with a mix of brand new stories and crowd favourite

Four Horse Road (2020)

Cast

“Fight for the right to pee for free,&nbsp;
wherever you like,&nbsp;
whenever you like,&nbsp;
for as long as you like,&nbsp;
and with whomever you like!”

In a fictional “most expensive city in the world”, a “cross-border water crisis” has led to a government ban on private lavatories. The woeful water shortage sees the erection of pay-to-pee public toilets operated by an all-powerful corporation, Urine Good Company, owned by the megalomaniac Caldwell B. Cladwell. Breaking the laws against gratuitous 

Urinetown: The Musical (2019)

Can once-in-a-lifetime happen again?

FATE is when the scholar Sang Xiao meets the vixen fox Ying Ning.
AFFECTION is when Ying Ning hides her identity to be with a mortal.
MISHAP is when the priest Cheng Ban Xian exposes her secret.
FOLLY is when Sang Xiao is tricked by the water spirit Feng San Niang.
LOVE is when Ying Ning risks her life to enter the Underworld.
Will the bittersweet lovers escape the bane of King Yama and change their destiny?

The scholar Sang Xiao falls in love with the fox spi

Liao Zhai Rocks! (2019)

Bizarre encounters on the night of The Theatre Practice's moving day

The Theatre Practice (TTP) is moving, and volunteers have arrived just in time to help move all the old costumes, props, furniture and equipment from Stamford Arts Centre to the new premises. In the midst of the chaos, several TTP staff and volunteers accidentally bump into the old wall, causing a section of it to collapse. The gaping hole reveals what seems to be a narrow storeroom that had been hidden behind a false wall. The room is 

Four Horse Road (2018)

Lao Jiu,&nbsp;a Singapore classic that has stood the test of time, will awake your aspiration to pursue your dream.

Lao Jiu, literally "the ninth child", is the only son in the family. An incredibly intelligent boy on track to win a prestigious scholarship, but he finds his true calling in the declining traditional puppetry arts. Torn between his dream and responsibilities, will Lao Jiu follow his heart; or will he cave to the needs of his family, seeking wealth and success?

Lao Jiu: The Musical&nbsp;

Lao Jiu: The Musical (2017)

Get entangled in the enchanting story of a pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte.

To avoid Wilbur being sent to the butcher, Charlotte proves to be a true friend by coming to his rescue. Charlotte saves the day using her web-spinning skills to weave messages that praise Wilbur, making him a celebrated pig treasured by the farmer and his family.

Charlotte's Web is a poignant play that spins a positive message about friendship, and has enthralled audiences for generation

Charlotte's Web (2016)

Take three little superstar piglets, their devoted single-parent Mum, a misunderstood Big Bad Wolf and you've got the perfect 'Great Big Little Broadway Show' for audiences aged three and up!

Embark on an adventure with The Three Little Pigs as they battle the Big Bad Wolf with their charming and witty ways!

An original adaptation of the classic fairy tale, The Three Little Pigs teaches little ones how success can be achieved through hard work and perseverance.

Filled with humour, this 'very curly 

The Three Little Pigs (2016)

A long way out in the deep blue sea swims a shoal of the most beautiful fish in the entire ocean. Their scales are every shade of blue, green or purple, and ONE has a sparkling silver scale...

Meet proud and pretty Rainbow Fish, and her friends, Starfish, Small Blue, Big Violet and Little Green.

Based on Marcus Pfister's award winning storybook, I Theatre is again proud to present this marvellous hit musical for the whole family in Singapore!

Rainbow Fish learns some very valuable lessons about her

The Rainbow Fish (2016)

FATE is when the scholar Sang Xiao meets the vixen fox Ying Ning.
AFFECTION is when Ying Ning hides her identity to be with a mortal.
MISHAP is when the priest Cheng Ban Xian exposes her secret.
FOLLY is when Sang Xiao is tricked by the water spirit Feng San Niang.
LOVE is when Ying Ning risks her life to enter the Underworld.
Will the bittersweet lovers escape the bane of King Yama and change their destiny?

From the creative talents behind&nbsp;If There're Seasons...&nbsp;and&nbsp;Lao Jiu: The Musi

Liao Zhai Rocks! (2016)

Billy has always felt like an outsider within his own family. Billy, you see, is deaf. He is also the only one who actually listens in his hopelessly dysfunctional, hilariously eccentric, fiercely argumentative tribe of bohemian weirdos.

Dad is an intellectual who behaves like a first-class idiot;

Mum is a mystery novelist who can’t solve the mystery of her own family;

Sis is a world-class opera singer in a downtown pub;

Big Brother is writing a thesis on speech while hearing voices inside his h

Tribes (2015)

In&nbsp;untitled women number one,&nbsp;two women talk about their relationships, their past and future. Featuring Edith Podesta and Ethel Yap, the play looks at the notions of pain, death and interdependence, drawing from stories about gender, sexuality and womanhood.


untitled women number one (2015)

Performer

After the demise of his girlfriend Jing, A-Le packs up to pursue his musical ambitions in New York. There he meets the easy-going A-Qiang, a fellow dream hunter from Singapore, who gets him a job at a restaurant. On a particular takeout delivery, an aspiring actress named Rose enters A-Le's life. Soon a bittersweet friendship of battered dreams and bruised hearts is born amongst them. But with each passing day, Rose begins to feel a little more for A-Le. Unknown to them however, the future is about to chang

If There're Seasons... (2014)

Romeo and Juliet&nbsp;remains one of Shakespeare's most-performed classics, with the titular star-crossed sweethearts still the shining beacons of indomitable young love.&nbsp;

Set in aristocratic Verona, the vicious blood feud between the lovers' families, the Montagues and the Capulets, is blind to reason, not to mention romance.&nbsp;

Young men perish in their prime, friends invoke curses on each other, and Romeo and Juliet's right to love is inexorably denied... all in the name of an age-old enmit

Romeo & Juliet (2014)

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Dear Nora (2014)

Life’s a drag for Jack and his poor mother Widow Neo – the cupboard is bare, there are bills to pay and the loan sharks are circling. With the writing literally on the void-deck walls, they finally resort to selling Ah Kow, their beloved pet cow. But when Jack only gets a handful of green beans instead of cold hard cash for their pet, disaster looms…

That is, until a gigantic bean-sprout springs up in Marina Bay! It reaches high up beyond the clouds, to a mystical land where a man-eating Giant is rumoure

Jack & the Bean-Sprout! (2013)

RITES &amp; REGULATIONS&nbsp;is a multimedia theatrical mash-up featuring two interwoven Singaporean stories, each dealing with different aspects of death, life, and the funerary experience in a city with no room for exceptions, where the living live in standard-sized homes, and the dead rest in standard-sized graves.

A theatrical experience where narrative, lighting, sound, smells, movement, and projections interact to recreate a sense of quotidian banalities of life, as well as the jarring, almost othe

Rites & Regulations (2012)

Frayed Ends&nbsp;charts how the lives of a close circle of friends carry on after one of them decides to end her own life. In the face of a loss that is both immeasurable and sudden, they struggle with the frustrating limits of being human, of trying (and failing) to be there for the ones they love, and with finding some kind of hope even in the inevitability of these failures.

Frayed Ends&nbsp;was developed under Centre 42's Guest Room (now known as the New Scripts Residency).&nbsp;Read&nbsp;about Guest

Frayed Ends by Michelle Tan

The Last Five Years: A Gender Reversal&nbsp;is a gender-reversed adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s&nbsp;The Last Five Years, which tracks the relationship between a straight couple, Amy (formerly the male character “Jamie”) and Danny (formerly the female character “Cathy”), from their first date, to their marriage, to the end of their relationship in a divorce. The structure of the musical is such that each character takes turns to sing solo songs describing the journey of their relationship from their per

The Last Five Years: A Gender Reversal by Ethel Yap

Producer

The See You Later (SYL) Party was an event to mark Centre 42’s final days at 42 Waterloo Street before we moved out for renovations for the incoming Arts Resource Hub. The event was to take place on 21 April 2020, to mark the day when we first opened our doors to theatremakers, theatre-going enthusiast and artists from all walks six years prior. The SYL Party was going to be for our community, by our community.

In addition to a communal dumpling-making activity and a yard sale (because down-sizing!), we 

Ethel Yap

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