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Esplanade Presents
18 Aug 2023, Fri, 8pm
19 Aug 2023, Sat, 3pm & 8pm
20 Aug 2023, Sun, 3pm
(Intermission: None)
Singtel Waterfront Theatre at Esplanade
This event is over.
An old playground in Ang Mo Kio is slated to be bulldozed. Three 20-something friends and a stranger gather to protest its demolition. What starts as a well-meaning but ill-conceived protest escalates quickly to a night of reckoning. Relationships are tested, convictions challenged and identities scrapped. Much like the playground itself, the lives of these four characters are sucked into an endless cycle of forgetting, destruction, loss and letting go.
An ode to the hang-ups and dramas of a generation coming of age, Joel Tan’s Mosaic is a funny and witty look at the rose-tint of nostalgia and the uncertainty of change.
Mosaic was first produced and presented in 2013, and subsequently restaged in 2015 with a revised script. The Straits Times called it "joyful and heart-warming," while TODAY Online praised it as "vivid" and "beautifully rendered." Don’t miss this fresh staging by Tan Shou Chen, with a brand new cast comprising bright talents from Singapore’s next generation of actors.
Playwright: Joel Tan
Director: Tan Shou Chen
Performers: Coco Wang Ling, Irsyad Dawood, Andre Chong, Rebecca Ashley Dass
Set Designer: TK Hay
Costume Stylist: Yvette Ng
Lighting Designer: Alberta Wileo
Sound Designer: Jing Ng
Sound Engineer: Guo Ningru
Producer: Shridar Mani (The Public Space)
Production Manager: Cindy Yeong
Technical Manager: Kailash
Stage Manager: Celestine Wong
Assistant Stage Manager: Chong Wee Nee
Key Visual Design: Akbar Syadiq
Accessibility
Singapore Sign Language Interpretation
Advisory 16: Some mature content and coarse language.
Joel Tan
Joel Tan is a Singaporean playwright based in London and Singapore. Recent works include The Butterfly Lovers (Victorian Opera/Wild Rice), No Particular Order (Theatre 503, The Studios: TRIP at Esplanade), shortlisted for the George Devine Award, Tartuffe (Wild Rice), When The Daffodils (Orange Tree Theatre); Living Archive (Royal Court); Ghosts in the Blood (Audible UK) and Augmented Chinatown (Chinese Arts Now). Upcoming work includes new plays with Wild Rice, the Royal Court, Headlong Theatre and the Almeida Theatre.
Joel also works inter-disciplinarily and has collaborated with visual artists, poets, musicians and dancers as a writer, director and dramaturg.
Tan Shou Chen
Tan Shou Chen is a recognised theatremaker from Singapore with credits that spans acting and directing. Opera directing credits include Henry Purcell’s Dido (The Opera People, 2023) and George Friederich Handel’s Alcina (The Opera People, 2021) and Orestes by Ifigenia (Singapore International Festival of the Arts, 2019). Other directorial works include Tony Perez’s On North Diversion Road (SMU Arts Festival, 2021); Joel Tan’s A Bird Calls You to Moscow (Singapore International Festival of the Arts, 2020); The Box (Seven Eight Musical Collective 2020; 13.13.13, (Theatreworks SG, 2018); Open Waters (Bangkok Theatre Festival 2017, NAC Creation Grant) MEDEA (The Substation’s Director’s Lab, 2014); Now Then Again by Penny Penniston (NUS Arts Festival 2016); Words and Music (NUS Arts Festival 2015); Mixed (Theatrework’s Community Tour, 2017) and Makan Memories (National Gallery opening festival, 2015).
Shou Chen is also an educator, teaching at NUS, SUSS and SMU.
Singapore Sign Language Interpretation
18 Aug 2023, Fri
8pm
19 Aug 2023, Sat
3pm
8pm
20 Aug 2023, Sun
3pm
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