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About M1 Chinese Theatre Festival
Practice’s M1 Chinese Theatre Festival is a sustained effort to create a space for Chinese-language performances in Singapore . It was started with the intent to address the lack of variety in Chinese theatre performances locally, as well as to make professional standard performances more accessible to both adults and children. As Kuo Jian Hong puts it: “For the Chinese theatre scene to thrive, it needs to be carefully tended. Only then can the saplings grow into trees, and trees into forest, endlessly, ceaselessly.”
M1 Chinese Theatre Festival offers a wide spectrum of possibilities of Little Theatre. It adopts the term “Little Theatre” to frame the types of works it stages and presents. Little Theatre may refer to the performance space, the performance itself, and/or the presenting company of said performance. The phrase also connotes works that may be more “experimental” in nature. Hence, this festival is also comprised of local and international artists and theatre practitioners across the Chinese diaspora, who situate their practice within Little Theatre.
- The wee Question Mark and the Nameless – A Family Musical
- The Seven Silences: Anger
- The Little Child
- Blank Run
- Lu Xun Blossoms
- 1 Table 2 Chairs Experimental Series
Fringe Programmes:
- The Nursery Rhymes Project: Imagine Our Songs
- Practice Tuckshop – Space of Possibilities
- INTERACT
- FOCUS: The Artistic Journey of Blank Run
- approaching theatre Workshop: The Thinking Performer
- Parent-Child Workshop: Let’s Make a Puppet!
- Day I Met the Prince
- fleet
- To be continued
- Mamma Luna
- Day of Growing Up
- 1 Table 2 Chairs Experimental Series (Descendants 600, Descendants 400, Gertrude – Ophelia)
Fringe Programmes:
- Storytelling: My Flower, My Drawing
- INTERACT: The Importance of Children’s Theatre
- FOCUS: fleet from the Text
- Parent-Child Workshop: Wayang Time!
- The wee Question Mark and the Adventurer – A Children’s Musical
- The Struggle: Years Later
- The Last Supper
- Chronology on Death
- Into the Flood
- 1 Tables 2 Chairs Experimental Series (Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral: Was, Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral: Is, Nothing)
Fringe Programmes:
- Storytelling + Singing Session with The wee Question Mark and Friends
- INTERACT – In the Living Room
- Green Room
- Nini in Changi Village
- Mo Gu Notes
- The Mark Behind the Ear
- FLUID
- Casting Sword
- 1 Table 2 Chairs Experimental Series (Unsound 2, X2, Emperor Qin and Lady Meng Jiang)
Fringe Programmes:
- Story Challenge
- INTERACT (Hsueh Mei Hua, Liu Xiao Yi, Yu Shan Lu, Wu Xi)
- FOCUS (Kun Opera Theatre – Zhao Yu Tao, Sun Yijun)
- La Naissance
- Mulan
- Wanderer-Seeker: A Trek Around My Room
- Threshold: 1 Table 2 Chairs Experimental Series (Unsound, 10, WC)
- Tell Tales Sing Songs
- Am I Crying
- The Happy Prince
- The Story after Ah Q
Fringe Programmes:
- Story Challenge
- Waste Not, Want Not