Name: Headline Acts 1 | SIFA-X 2023
Start: 2023-05-27T20:00:00+08:00
End: 2023-05-27T22:00:00+08:00
Location: Black Box @ 42 Waterloo Street

Headline Acts 1     |    SIFA-X 2023

Centre 42 is a non-profit arts organisation with IPC status committed to the creation, documentation and promotion of text-based works for the Singapore stage. As a theatre development space and intermediary, we incubate original writings for the stage, support the development of artists and new works, and develop and maintain a functional archive documenting the histories and processes of Singapore theatre.For more information on Centre 42’s programmes and initiatives, please visitwww.centre42.sg. Centre 42 is developed in collaboration with the National Arts Council (NAC), and officially opened in 2014. We are supported by the NAC for the period 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2023.

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"Acts 1" features four short works by Jean Tay, Irsyad Dawood, Isaac Lim and Kay Lynn Er

Black Box @ 42 Waterloo Street

SIFA-X: there is no future in nostalgia

How do we reckon with this country's propensity to forget? Centre 42 grapples with these questions & more through deep cuts from the theatre archive, a series of new plays responding to the uses & abuses of nostalgia, and a jam on headlines from the 90s.

C﻿ome enjoy a fun and informal evening of dramatised readings featuring new short works by writers who responded to headlines from the year 1993! For this special SIFA edition of Headline Acts, part of Centre 42&#x27;s group show SIFA-X: there is no future in nostalgia, we are turning our attention to that special dynamic between new and old, past and future. There are two sessions of Headline Acts with a diverse platter of plays served:A﻿cts 1 feature the works of Jean Tay, Irsyad Dawood, Isaac Lim and Kay Lynn Er:<ul><li>The Three Ages by Jean Tay </li></ul>A woman, Elizabeth, looks back at her life at three different points in time.<ul><li>Kids&#x27; Gifts, COEs &amp; Roast Duck by Irsyad Dawood</li></ul>Two people get lost on their way to a friend’s kid’s birthday party. They talk about some things. There is a goose. There is roast duck. <ul><li>Is it because I&#x27;m... by Isaac Lim</li></ul>Ibrahim is a sexy and charming man. But he just cannot find the right love. The reason? They all say he isn’t romantic enough. He recollects his past relationships over the past year to find the true problem.<ul><li>Sotong by Kay Lynn Er</li></ul>What starts as the purchase of the wrong brand of cuttlefish snacks turns into a heated discussion about one family&#x27;s past and relationships with each other. One performance only: S﻿aturday 27 May @ 8pm-﻿-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A﻿cts 2 feature the works of Very Shy Gurl by fendy, Melizarani T Selva, Wisely Chow and Ivan Choong. <a href="https://Acts2-sifaxc42.eventbrite.sg" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Click here to read synopses and book your ticket for Acts 2.</a>One performance only: S﻿unday 28 May @ 3pm

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