THESPIS PRESENTS
“TWICE/REMOVED”
A doublebill of theatre and dance pieces
A double bill of devised dance and theatre pieces
“Second Nature” & “The Silly Little Girl and the Funny Old Tree
that is not Funny Old Girl and Silly Little Tree.”
Date: 28th and 29th March 2009
Time: 8pm
Venue: Republic Polytechnic Cultural Centre Laboratory
Tickets at $18 Each.
Contact ISAAC at 98160360 or isaac.sim@nus.edu.sg for the purchase of tickets.
Second Nature
Second Nature was created for and first staged during the 2009 NUS Arts Festival in response to the festival’s theme, ‘Arts and Environment.’ Choreographed by Kiran Kumar is a devised dance piece derived from a collaborative process between three different performers: two dancers from different dance traditions and training and an actor who has none. It finds resonances of issues pertinent to environment – of conservation, preservation, regeneration, sustainability and pollution within the nature of dance. By exploring the interaction and crossing of boundaries between personal environments; environments of accumulated, acquired behaviour, that with frequent repetition, seep so deep into personal memory as to seem traditional, innate, second nature.
The Silly Little Girl and the Funny Old Tree that is not Funny Old Girl and Silly Little Tree
A work-in-progress very loosely based on Kuo Pao Kun’s, “Silly Little Girl and Funny Old Tree.” You will experience awkward moments that the performers will face as they put together directors’ choices and conventions with limited resources to stage this play. No matter what, the ’show must go on!’ Experience then the snippets of Singapore theatre history as they venture into the possibilities of putting up the show that will be uniquely Singapore.
