Open Roads: Stage Talk -Theatre Talks Back and Open Panel Discussion
Saturday 28 January 2012, 2-6pm
Theatre Talks Back, 2-4pm
Open Panel Discussion, 4:30-6pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: Free
This is an InHouse event 
Open Roads: Stage Talk was a programme initiated by The Substation in collaboration with The Flying Inkpot Theatre and Dance in 2010 to invite members of the public to come together and converse about local plays. After two successful runs in 2010 and 2011, Open Roads: Stage Talk comes to a close.
To end the programme on a high note, local theatre reviewers have been gathered for a final pow-wow session– an open panel discussion about the current state of theatre criticism and their personal processes of reviewing performances. Join Life! journalist Corrie Tan, TODAY journalist, Mayo Martin, local online arts journal The Flying Inkpot‘s Matthew Lyon and freelance reviewers, Ng Yi-Sheng and Tara Tan in an open discussion about local theatre. Look forward also to the first of our Theatre Talks Back sessions, where invited theatre practitioners will talk about their recent productions in a Q&A presentation.
The Theatre Talks Back session is hosted by invited theatre practitioners who will talk about their recent productions in a Q&A presentation. Cake Theatrical Productions will be showing a video presentation of Decimal Points: 4.44 and talking about the trials and tribulations of putting together the first co-presentation between The Substation and Cake Theatrical Productions.
Several Islands
Written by Ho Rui An
Published in 2011 by The Substation
Available for $15 from the box office, boxoffice@substation.org / 6337 7800
A travellers begins a journey in pursuit of a singular purpose: to seek certitude within the uncertain. Among the characters encountered, there are those who never sleep, those who cannot stop writing, those who have lost their memories and those who are too in the midst of a travel. Several Islands was written based on the memories of The Substation, the first independent contemporary arts space in Singapore.
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Official Book Launch and The Substation’s 21st Birthday Tea Party
As part of SeptFest 2011
Sunday 18 September 2011, 2-4pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: Free
This is an InHouse event
Join us for a little tea-time party where friends, family and yes, even frenemies, come together to “talk shop” and reminisce about their memories of this very special home of the arts. As we indulge in a little nostalgia, we will also look forward to the future of the institution; Several Islands, a semi-fictive book about The Substation written by emergent literary talent, Ho Rui An, will be launched during this soiree! So come on down, to browse and buy the book, or just to hang out and chat with us!
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Open Roads: Stage Talk
(wo)men
by Faith Ng
Saturday 27 August 2011, 2-5pm
The Substation Classroom 1
Admission: $10 available from the box office
Contact Mish’aal 6337 7800 / registration@substation.org
Aggressive 18-year old runaway, Danae, eventually returns home after two years. She bitterly resents her mother, the simple-minded Ghek Huay, as well as her raucous, Hokkien-speaking grandmother Pek Har, blaming the both of them for the fact that her father is no longer part of the family. Over a single night in their shared HDB flat, the three women eat, bicker and reminisce…until the final twist is revealed to the audience.
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Words
As part of Etiquette
Women Out Loud
Thursday 4 August 2011, 7:45-10pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: Entry by donation
This is an InHouse event
Be a part of the inaugural Women Out Loud, and listen to poetry, prose, and dialogue from nine writers for whom the personal need not necessarily be private. Including readings from award-winning novelist, short-story writer and playwright Ovidia Yu as well as published author-artist Dana Lam, listen your way through an emotional night of first love, supermarket rage, mother-daughter tension and clinical regret in this line-up of words created not for the faint-of-heart. Curated by Tania De Rozario & Zarina Muhammad.
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The Lady of Soul and Her Ultimate ‘S’ Machine
By Tan Tarn How
Saturday 16 July 2011, 2-4pm
The Substation Classroom 1
Admission: $10 available from the box office. Contact Mish’aal 6337 7800 / registration@substation.org
President’s Scholar Derek, a high-ranking government official, is tasked to find the soul of the nation. His journey takes him to committee after committee, sub-committee after sub-committee, and leads him into public consultation sessions with an odd combination of characters: a communist, an arts activist and a mamasan. The search eventually leads Derek to question his identity and his chosen career.
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The Substation Love Letters
I Want You When You Say No
12 writers | 12 poems | 12 postcards | 12 months
Singaporean-based writers of different races, cultural backgrounds and sexualities, have been invited to explore the erotics of “un-belonging”. A sense of belonging, dislocation, or ambivalence forms the focus. In any relationship, does one escape into an eroticised state of Otherness and difference, or does love only serve to reaffirm one’s own identity? While writers are encouraged to interpret the theme freely, they are encouraged to question the assumptions behind any relationship to a person and place – and preferably with a social or political consciousness.
The works of these writers are presented as love letters, from The Substation to members of the public, and are published as limited-edition postcards, each released on a monthly basis at The Substation only, where the public can pick them up for free. Discover this month’s poem by hurrying down to The Substation to collect your postcard, or read it online at www.substation.org/loveletters
Etiquette
Art: Wednesday 3 – Sunday 28 August
Words: Thursday 4 August 2011, 7:45-10pm
Film: Friday 5 – Saturday 6 August, 7-10pm
This is an InHouse event
Etiquette, an annual event in its second installment, is a multidisciplinary showcase of art, writing and film, created by, and about women. Addressing gender as a subject of discourse, it uses art as a tool to create spaces within which critical and creative conversations can take place. Featuring an all-female crew of over 30 artists, writers, filmmakers and curators, this year’s event gets down and dirty with pertinent women’s issues that people would rather not discuss at the dinner-table.
See the full line-up of events below
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In the Company of Heroes
A Discussion of Selected Plays by Verena Tay
Saturday 30 April 2011, 3pm
The Substation Random Room
Admission: Free
This is an InHouse event
Do you aspire to keep the company of heroes? You don’t have to look long and hard. Come join us in this two-part launch of the long-awaited second volume of plays by seasoned theatre practitioner, Verena Tay! In the Company of Heroes, published by Math Paper Press/Books Actually, comprises plays written and produced between 2004 and 2010, including Verena’s best known and critically acclaimed works such as The Car (ACTION Theatre’s Theatre Idols 2005, produced in 2006), The Lunar Interviews (2008) and Bumiputra Cina (2009).
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The Woman in A Tree on A Hill
By Ovidia Yu
Saturday 25 June 2011, 2-5pm
The Substation Classroom 1
Admission: $10 available from the box office
Contact Mish’aal 6337 7800 / registration@substation.org
This is an InHouse event
The Substation and the online arts journal, The Flying Inkpot Theatre and Dance, present the second season of Open Roads: Stage Talk. This reading club is a monthly platform for members of the public to come together and have a conversation about local plays. In 2010, Open Roads focussed on canonical local texts, but included this year, are new plays by Singaporean playwrights premiering in 2011.
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