Title: Centre 42

URL Source: http://centre42.sg/

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Centre 42

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SG Theatre Archive

Residencies

Co-Lab Residency
Explore text-based practices and resource creation as a collective

Creation Residency
Incubate original text-based and process-driven works

New Scripts Garage
Receive dramaturgical support for new scripts

Writer-In-Residence
Engage the theatre community with a body of work

Playwright's Professional Development Residency
Develop a playwright's portfolio through training and advocacy

The Vault Residency
Manifest contemporary responses to SG theatre history

The Vault: Lite Residency
Research and experiment with ideas to bring SG theatre history to life

Archival Residency
Form an archival collection and enrich SG theatre history

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Centre 42 is a theatre development space committed to the creation, documentation and promotion of Singapore theatre.

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MEETINGS Playwright-Dramaturg Sharing & Social, featuring Jean Tay & Hemang Yadav

How exactly do dramaturgs work with playwrights? What goes into making this dynamic work, and how does this often unseen creative exchange help to shape a play? As part of Centre 42's ongoing explorations of these questions, we are hosting a series of chill and intimate socials, each anchored by a casual chat between a dramaturg-playwright pair who'll give some insight into their collaboration. In this edition, playwright Jean Tay and dramaturg Hemang Yadav discuss their work together on The Shape of a

Start: 1 July 2025

COURSES & WORKSHOPS An Introduction to the Dramaturg’s Work 2025

An Introduction to the Dramaturg’s Work is a 4-session foundational course that will provide an introduction and grounding for performing arts practitioners who are curious about or want insight into the work that dramaturgs do.Conducted fully online by Centre 42’s Consultant Dramaturg Juliet Chia, this course aims to equip participants with an understanding of and familiarisation with:the brief history and evolution of the role of the dramaturgthe nature and scope of a dramaturg’s work different kinds

Start: 12 July 2025

COURSES & WORKSHOPS Engage-a-Dramaturg

Engage-a-Dramaturg is a new initiative matching playwrights and dramaturgs for a 4-month collaboration. This programme aims to:Bring together and build relationships between playwrights and dramaturgs who may not have had opportunities to work together before Encourage extended script development conversations between playwrights and dramaturgs Provide space for developing the playwright’s vision outside of the imperatives of a production or a commissionInstigate conversation around the value of t

Start: 1 November 2025

COURSES & WORKSHOPS Text Support: A Workshop Series for Dramaturgs

Text Support is a series of workshops offering different perspectives and tools that dramaturgs might bring to their work with playwrights developing new plays. This series features international guest dramaturgs Lynde Rosario (past president of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas), Steve Harper (Literary Manager, Theatre 503, UK), Brian Quirt (Artistic Director, Nightswimming, Canada), and Annie Jin Wang (Assoc. Director for Artistic Programming, PlayCo, US).

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Start: 12 August 2025

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Publications

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Productions & Stagings

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Essays & Writings

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About Us

Centre 42 incubates original writing for production development, provides space and resources for artists and new work creation, and runs a functional archive documenting the histories and processes of Singapore theatre.

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From the archive on sg theatre

COLLATERALS Peter Pan in Serangoon Gardens (2019), Programme

Programme for Peter Pan in Serangoon Gardens(2019).

Wild Rice

Recorded: 21 November 2019

COLLATERALS Tropicana the Musical (2017), Programme

Programme for Tropicana the Musical(2017).

Spare Room Productions

Recorded: 13 April 2017

REVIEWS What Big Bombs You Have!!! (2005), Review

Be Scared or Be Square Chermaine Ang delivers a squirmingly good performance as the bewildered, affection-starved Girl whose trusting obedience to her Uncle raises uncomfortable parallels with Huang Na's story. In this expressionistic evocation of the culture of fear that has enwrapped society since September 11th, Haresh Sharma retells the story of Little Riding Hood in a cauldron of latent terror and violence. Echoes of the recent Huang Na tragedy and a madcap sideplay about a terrorist plot on

Deanne Tan

Reviewed: 6 March 2005