SEASON
Congratulations to the 40 playwrights whose scripts have been selected for the Top 40 for Short+Sweet Singapore 2010’s season!
Top 40 PLAYS
In no running order
PROGRAMME 1 - Play Den, The Arts House
Rating NC-16
14 - 18 July | 8pm
Down Fall Down
Playwright: Kluane Saunders
Director: Cara Whitehouse
Once I had a dream… well, let’s call it a nightmare.
God By Any Other Name
Playwright: Sushma Goh
Director: Lim Chye Ling
Gathered around the dying mother, a family searches for redemption, forgiveness and a guaranteed pathway to heaven.
The Joy of Solitude (Based on Fernando Sorrentino’s “Un Estilo de Vida”)
Playwright: Dean Lundquist
Director: Dean Lundquist
Charlie’s lifestyle is forever changed when he inadvertently locks himself in his apartment.
Right & Left
Playwright: Verena Tay
Director: Muhammed Faizad Bin Salim
Do you command your body? Or do your body parts dictate you? To find out, let’s get physical …
Victim | 受害者
*In Mandarin with English subtitles
Playwright: Pu Kok Chang
Director: Jalyn Han
Who is the real victim in an alleged affair? Discover the surprising ending with us.
The Benefit of Friends
Playwright: Josh Billig
Director: Kluane Saunders
When friendship isn’t enough and a relationship is too much…
The Devil’s Aftershave
Playwright: Pete Malicki
Director: Larry Lam
A man with an incredibly heightened sense of smell explores his life through the odours he’s experienced.
All the Answers
Playwright: Mark Cornell
Director: Paul Lucas
A man dies and goes to a place between heaven and hell where all of life’s questions can be answered.
The Imaginary Friend
Playwright: Neil Troost
Director: Richel Xie
Roger and Karen are having serious relationship issues. Will they make it through or will Bob, Roger’s extraordinary friend, have the last laugh?
Merry Christmas
Playwright: Rajiv Rajendra
Director: Shaiful Bin Sawaluddin
Santa Claus delivers an unlikely Christmas present to a little girl, and then faces the toughest test of his life.
PROGRAMME 2 - Play Den, The Arts House
Rating R-18
21 - 25 July | 8pm
Good Girls
Playwright: Leon Foo
Director: Gavin Low
She’s peeled off her plastic, seen the ways of the world. And now she’s asking
Is she a good girl?
Mist_er_Second | 伊庙钟先生
*In Mandarin with English subtitles
Playwright: Yeo Si Ling
Director: Callista Tan
What will happen to ‘Mister Second’ when he misses the timing by just one second?
Lifetime
Playwright: Angie Farrow
Director: Christopher Murphy
They met, they cohabited, they quarreled and made up, they reproduced, they danced, they had a whole lifetime of loving. But was it enough to really know each other?
The Ring
Playwright: Gregory Hardigan
Director: Tay Kong Hui
Do you experience depression? Doubt? Do you drink too much? Then talk to your doctor about Aggrestivia! Zero did. Now he is fighting for his life in The Ring.
Why I Don’t Take Ma on Holidays
Playwright: Dora Tan
Director: Richard Chua
A comedy about how a Chinese mother unknowingly packs prohibited items to give her son a good holiday.
Shooting Clouds
Playwright: Jill Karkosak
Director: Tay Woo Chiao
For tweens on the brink of cool, Jamie and Tyler’s lazy day of cloud watching unexpectedly turns into a test of adulthood and friendship.
People Like Us
Playwright: Chris Shaw Swanson
Director: Ng Yuhui
Julie and Marion each have something to hide…literally. A warm and quirky, stripey and dotty short play about two awkward, ostracised colleagues who become friends.
Necessity
Playwright: Daniel Saunders
Director: Zelda Tatiana Ng
Two men discuss the implications of life without turnips.
PROGRAMME 3 - The Hall, The Arts House
Rating R-18
21 - 25 July | 8pm
Thickness of Blood
Playwright: Tushar Ismail
Director: Al Feshal
Relationships are about choices. What how do we choose when the choices are bigger than we can conceive?
Stolen
Playwright: Drayton Hiers
Director: Christopher Yadao
On an earthquake-ravaged island, an American woman is questioned about her role in the death of a young orphan girl.
Meeting with the Teacher
Playwright: Robert Barr
Director: Clare Louise Ross Murphy
When a 14 year old boy ‘acts out’, his teacher calls in the parents, uncovers a situation ripe to explode.
The History of St. Paul’s
Playwright: Mark Troy
Director: Corinne Teo
Gaylord Stupak receives an urgent message to meet his father at St. Paul’s Chapel, across the street from Ground Zero. He arrives only to discover the emergency was not quite what he had expected.
Interview of a Lifetime
Playwright: Shireen Abdullah
Director: En a.k.a. 恩
What do red tape, buffets and hygiene have to do with clinching that deal of a Lifetime? EVERYTHING, it seems…
The Arrangement
Playwright: David Chang
Director: Grace Soo
In a world where marriage exists to satisfy needs and wants, how do two people reconcile with a forced marriage that goes against their dreams for the future?
Some Are Meant to Sit
Playwright: Earl Roske
Director: Jacklyn Kuah
Sham and Po struggle over the status quo and privilege; and who is meant to sit and who shall stand.
Gurus
Playwright: Michael Clifton
Director: Jayme Buk
In a Delhi restaurant, two veteran travellers compete over who understands the “real” India and who is just another tourist.
Play (with) Misty for Me
Playwright: Kate Toon
Director: Luanne Poh
Jeremy. Yvonne. Misty. A boy. A girl. And their dog. Through conversations, we learn that everyone have dreams, though not always fulfilled. But unconditional love is always possible, in any form.
My Name is Art
Playwright: Peter Snoad
Director: Toby Papazoglou
A museum displays a pile of plastic boxes. Is it art? Crap? Democracy in action? You just never know…
PROGRAMME 4 - The Hall, The Arts House
Rating NC-16
28 July - 1 August | 8pm
Short + Salty 2010
Playwright: Jeremy Yew
Director: Chandran K Lingam
The truth behind the world’s largest 10-minute playwriting competition.
The Kill
Playwright: Alex Broun
Director: Daniel Saunders
What if someone dies in your dream? Or what if you dream you kill them? A psychological dream-thriller. With tomatoes.
The Harrow
Playwright: Ross Peter Nelson
Director: Dayal Singh
An interrogator who was responsible for Afghan prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay is haunted by memories of what happened.
Dorothy Parker is in the Bath
Playwright: Laurel Ollstein
Director: Florence Coullet
Dorothy Parker is in the Bath finds a fictional Dorothy Parker in the bathtub, during her own party, contemplating suicide.
Just a Date
Playwright: Con Nats
Director: Georgia Fun
Asking a girlfriend out is easy, isn’t it? It all depends on where you’re going and where you’ve been…
Bringer of Light
Playwright: William C. Kovacsik
Director: Emilie Oehlers
In 1914, in the kitchen of London’s Ritz Hotel, the world’s most famous chef almost changes the course of world history when he has an impromptu debate with one of his busboys.
Armistice
Playwright: Wendy Hammond
Director: Joanne Tay
Singapore: 1945. A Chinese man holds a gun on his Japanese ex-captor wondering whether or not to shoot. During the occupation, had they been enemies or friends? Or something more?
Frames
Playwright: Lester Tan
Director: Melissa Ho
What frames a relationship? And what happens when it no longer fits into its frame? Find out as two paintings by Rene Magritte and Edward Hopper come to life.
Women & Gays | 女人与 gay
*In Mandarin with English subtitles
Playwright: Siow Ying
Director: Siow Ying
Women and gays – are they friends, or foes? Are they truly different from each other? Who loves men more?
The Tent
Playwright: Wee Li Lin
Director: Wendy Hammond
During a school camp, a female teacher is sent a prank card inviting her to the tent of a male teacher.