Theatre

Civilised

Organised by: The Necessary Stage
  • Date:
    15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 May 2019
  • Time:
    Wed - Sat: 8:00pm
    Sat & Sun: 3:00pm
  • Duration:
    1h 30min
  • Venue:
    The Necessary Stage Black Box
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  • Language:
    English, Mandarin, Malay and other languages
  • Admission:
    $36, $28*
    (excluding SISTIC ticketing fee)
    * Concessions for students, senior citizens and NSF.

  • Advisory:
    Rating to be advised

Synopsis:

There is no past without colonisation,
and there is no future without it.

As we commemorate the bicentennial of the founding of Singapore, let us take a moment to express our gratitude to our founding father/s for their foresight in transforming Singapore from a small fishing village to a global metropolis. We are civilised!

Let's marvel at how, all over the world, our land has been plundered, our laws kept archaic and our freedoms curtailed by those in power. Let us honour our pursuit of economic success and excess [nothing less will do], as we continue to colonise today—through money, discrimination and land conquests, even in space. We are civilised!

Because after all, through colonisation, we are civilised! We are also schooled and silenced.

Written by Haresh Sharma and directed by Alvin Tan, Civilised by The Necessary Stage is a groundbreaking new work that takes you on a wild ride through the complications and violence of colonisation past, present and future.

Civilised


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