Platform Campus – Re: Almost Left Behind

Platform Campus – Re: Almost Left Behind
As part of the Singapore Arts Festival
Friday 27 May 2011, 7:30pm
Saturday 28 May 2011, 3pm and 7:30pm
The Substation Buidling
Admission: $16 available from SISTIC www.sistic.com.sg
Please refer to www.singaporeartsfest.com for more information
This is an InHouse event

Almost a travelogue, but not quite.
A group of young travellers embark on a year-long exploration,

Like driftwood, 
Each a repository of memories, 
Visiting new places. 
And revisiting old haunts. 

Where have they gone, and why have they come back? 
Where are they returning to, and upon their return, 
How will they choose to remember their journeys?

Through recounting and retelling lived experiences, 
new meanings are constructed, and a collective story in
response to memories. travelling. space. home.
is revealed in an intimate, interactive multi-disciplinary performance exhibition.

13 travelers return from journeys with stories waiting to be told. Through different story-telling methods, this multi-disciplinary work explores memory, travelling and the voices of a generation of twenty-somethings. Directed by Tan Liting and Thong Pei Qin, Re: Almost Left Behind invites the audience to decide what they want to see and do, creating their own memories as they sojourn through the piece with the performers.

This exciting site-based performance is presented by Thespis, an arts-interest group led by a driven team of National University of Singapore Theatre Studies students and alumni members who are interested in cultivating young artists in local tertiary institutions. Their productions seek to interest and critically engage audiences by causing audiences to rethink performance concepts. In 2010, they expanded their membership to all students from all tertiary institutions and young working adults.

This production is presented under the Festival’s Platform Campus, a platform dedicated to bringing a deeper level of artistic development to the local educational institutions. The Festival and Thespis team would like to express their appreciation to Republic Polytechnic and NUS Office of Alumni Relations for supporting the work-in-progress showings in December 2010 and March 2011.