Season's Greetings from the SRT Team!

Bear and Chicken Get Ready for School

Presented by SRT's The Little Company

DBS Arts Centre - Home of SRT

4 Mar - 10 Apr 2010

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

Blackbird

Presented by SRT
6 - 20 Mar 2010
DBS Arts Centre - Home of SRT

Following the runaway success of The Pillowman, Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT) is proud to offer another thought provoking theatrical experience - Blackbird which won the 2007 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play.

From the time of Adam and Eve, we have been fascinated by that which is forbidden – and nothing more so than forbidden love.  Blackbird mixes guilt, desire and bitterness into a potent brew that will be unlike anything you have seen before on stage, in the tradition of Lolita, or even more recently An Education.

Scottish playwright David Harrower has written a riveting play about a sexual relationship that transforms, paralyses and destroys the lives of both the parties involved. A modern day love story – or is it? This gripping psychodrama makes you question the very nature of love. As with every country in which it has been performed, you will be talking about the controversy it generates for days after watching it.  

Former lovers Una and Ray meet face-to-face for the first time in 15 years. A chance picture in a magazine has led her back to him. But is it for answers, reconciliation or revenge? What follows is a tightly-plotted series of twists and turns that will have you at the edge of your seats. Wielding words like a scalpel, Harrower peels away the layers to expose the conflicting emotions that lie at the core of our human hearts.


“the most powerful drama of the season…" – The New York Times

“…masterly, mesmerizing…extraordinary…a miracle” – The New York Times
 
“…one of the most daring new plays of recent years.” – Sunday Herald

Advisory: Mature content / Strong language (16 years and above) 

Tickets will be on sale from 24 December 2009 from SISTIC at 6348 5555 or www.sistic.com.sg.

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.

 “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:
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)