Bear and Chicken Get Ready for School

A new tale featuring lovable charaters from Bear and Chicken Go Camping.
A play about overcoming one's fears!

Directed by Michael Corbidge
Written  by Katerina Tiapula

Bear and Chicken are back! They are getting ready to go to a new school. But moving from their familiar school to a new one is scary. Together Bear and Chicken decide to join the Circus. Wouldn’t it be fun to be the circus clown, acrobat or even the lion tamer?

What entails is a charming discovery that not all lessons in life are learnt in a classroom and perhaps the circus isn’t all fun and games after all.

This play illustrates how sometimes our fears can be blown out of proportion but with a good friend at your side; you can overcome a potentially daunting situation like the first day of school. Perhaps school can even be fun!

Bear and Chicken Get Ready for School is the third of a highly successful original series that began with When I Grow Up and Bear and Chicken Go Camping. You’ll get to meet the lovable Bear in his circus costumes, and Chicken who is all set for school!

Recommended for 3 – 6 year olds

The Bridge Project - The Tempest

Presented by SRT
2 - 10 April 2010
Esplanade Theatre

In March 2009, Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT), in collaboration with Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, presented The Bridge Project - Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale starring Ethan Hawke and Rebecca Hall. Directed by Tony and Academy Award winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Revolutionary Road, Cabaret), the production received rave reviews from both the press and public.

“ SRT gave us a wonderful start to our international tour last year and it’s  thrilling they have remained one of our principal partners for this second major pairing of plays. The 2009 Bridge company hugely enjoyed the Singapore experience – the excitement of being in that city and the vibrancy of the theatre and its audiences was a real boon to them. So to have the chance to build on this is truly valuable to us all. “ - Sam Mendes

 
“There was never a moment that I was anything other than enthralled”           –The Wall Street Journal

The Bridge Project is a partnership between Sam Mendes, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and the Old Vic in London run by Kevin Spacey (Academy Award winner for The Usual Suspects and American Beauty).

The Bridge Project has been the most prestigious theatrical event in the world this year, and SRT is proud to be one of the five co-commissioning producing partners for the world tour of this trans-Atlantic venture. SRT will present the Singapore leg in collaboration with the Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay. 

About The Bridge Project Year 2 – The Tempest

In April 2010, Year two of The Bridge Project features another stellar transatlantic lineup in a work by William Shakespeare: The Tempest. In this celebrated classic, widely considered to be Shakespeare’s final play, Mendes and company explore outcasts, power, and magical lands.

Featured actors include:

Obie Award-winner Alvin Epstein (Broadway's The Three Penny Opera; BAM's Endgame)
Michelle Beck (Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Twelfth Night, Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Cyrano de Bergerac
Christian Camargo (Broadway’s All My Sons, the film The Hurt Locker)
Tony Award-winner Stephen Dillane, (Broadway’s The Real Thing, HBO’s John Adams)
Obie Award-winner Ron Cephas Jones (Broadway’s Gem of the Ocean, Donmar’s Jesus Hopped the A-Train)
Juliet Rylance (Theatre for a New Audience’s Othello, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre’s The Winter’s Tale)
Thomas Sadoski (Broadway’s reasons to be pretty and Reckless) 

Upstairs in the Sky

A tale about friendship, adventure and creativity

Upstairs in the Sky is a story of adventure, friendship and loss. Two delivery people arrive with a box addressed to the audience – a Make-It-Yourself Story Kit!

At first they can't agree on what story to tell. With the audiences encouragement they make friends and together they draw the audience into an imaginary journey through a dark, dark wood, up a tall, tall tower to a beautiful magical cloudscape. Their story of Princess Veronica and her search for grandfather King Jim is a gentle, heart-warming reassurance of family love

Enriching creativity through open ended play: The show is performed with open ended play materials – boxes, cloths, tubes and household objects which the children can play with after the show. When children play with things that have no prescribed play value they stretch their imaginations and share their ideas with other children in order for the 'playing' to continue - even when loved ones are no longer there.


Recommended for 3 – 6 year olds

POSTPONED

Blackbird

Dear Patron,

It is with regret that SRT has to announce the postponement of Blackbird which was slated to run March 6-20th.

Blackbird is a very challenging play with a cast of two, that demands exceptional actors to make successful.
After three weeks of rehearsal, Patrick Teoh, who played the male protagonist, felt that he could not deliver what was required to do justice to the role. This has come as a huge disappointment to everyone involved with the production.

“As a professional actor, this has been the most challenging role I have ever taken on. The dream role for many actors is to eventually play Hamlet at least once in their career, because of its complexity. Blackbird has the potential to achieve that kind of appeal for an actor. I am sure audiences will appreciate and enjoy this as well once they’ve seen the play,” says actor Patrick Teoh, adding “I am hugely disappointed in myself that I could not deliver a performance that would do both the show and SRT proud.  I appreciate all that SRT has done to help me and feel bad for letting SRT down.”

Teoh, who has an extensive acting resume, was most recently seen in the Singaporean film Blue Mansion.

Instead of rushing to find a replacement actor, SRT has made the decision to postpone the show to September in order to allow director Tracie Pang, actor Emma Yong and the new cast enough time to ensure that Blackbird is of the high quality that SRT audiences have come to expect.
All tickets will be fully refunded, and we will inform you when the new cast and dates in September are confirmed.

Refunds will be made in full, inclusive of the $3 SISTIC booking fees, through the original mode of payment.
For purchases made through Credit Card, refunds will be automatically credited to the same card.
For purchases made through CASH or NETS, Singapore Repertory Theatre will send a cheque with the full refund amount through the post within 14 working days from today (24 Feb 2010).
If you had purchased tickets from SISTIC’s overseas Authorised Agents, please contact them directly for further details.

For more information, call the SISTIC Hotline at (65) 6348 5555.

We regret the inconvenience caused to you due to this unfortunate situation.