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Director's Message OUR TOWN Grover’s Corners is an idyllic and unremarkable town. But everything around it is quietly changing: industrialisation and capitalism are on the rise and World War I is on the horizon. Will these changes weaken the ties that bind the townsfolk together? Our Town is an intercultural interpretation of Wilder’s insightful and moving portrait of small town life. 80 years after it was first performed, find out what Our Town can tell us about living in a multicultural, multilingual, modern world. This is Our Town as you’ve never seen it before. With support from Intercultural Theatre Institute is a recipient of the National Arts Council’s Major Grant for the period from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2018. CREDITS DIRECTOr’s MeSSAGE MR WEBB Wong Yunjie MRS WEBB Mathilde Bagein Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam EMILY WEBB Uma Katju And admit that the waters DR GIBBS Saran Jith Around you have grown And accept it that soon MRS GIBBS Regina Foo You’ll be drenched to the bone GEORGE GIBBS Desmond Soh If your time to you is worth savin’ REBECCA GIBBS Namaha Mazoomdar Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin’ MRS SOAMES Shirley Tan SIMON STIMSON Henrik Cheng from “The Times They Are A-Changin’” by Bob Dylan STAGE MANAGERS Henrik Cheng, Sonia Kwek, Vanessa Wu, Isabelle Our Town by Thornton Wilder still seems so relevant, 80 years after it was Low, Tan Weiying, Teo Dawn, Namaha Mazoomdar written. Set in a period of great change, industrialisation and immigration immediately before the First World War, there is a strong sense of CONSTABLE WARREN/PROFESSOR WILLARD Tan Weiying disruption. Grover’s Corners is a deceptively idyllic town. The times are JOE STODDARD/MR MORGAN Sonia Kwek actually changing. SAM CRAIG/CLERGYMAN Vanessa Wu By the end of the play, we realise that with these changes, the human JOE CROWELL/SI CROWELL Teo Dawn connection has loosened. We are so busy with our everyday lives that we’re not really present when we’re with someone. We don’t really hold HOWIE NEWSOME/WALLY WEBB Isabelle Low on to those moments. Many thanks to Jean Tay, Koh Wan Ching, Lim Woan Wen, Bani Haykal, PLAYWRIGHT Thornton Wilder Jasmine Ng, Max Tan, Yuan Zhi Ying, Natalie Lim, Geraldine Ang, Chan DIRECTOR Kok Heng Leun Silei and Lim Chin Huat for coming on board to help shape and make this work. Thank you Sasi and ITI for inviting me to work with these committed ADDITIONAL TEXT Jean Tay actors. Most importantly, thank you to Dawn, Desmond, Henrik, Isabelle, MOVEMENT CHOREOGRAPHER Koh Wan Ching Mathilde, Namaha, Regina, Saran, Shirley, Sonia, Weiying, Uma, Vanessa and Yunjie for sharing your stories, inspiring new insights and breathing LIGHTING DESIGNER Lim Woan Wen new life into Our Town. SOUND DESIGNER Bani Haykal Thank you for watching the show! Enjoy! VIDEO DESIGNER Jasmine Ng COSTUME DESIGNERS Max Tan and Yuan Zhi Ying of MAX.TAN Kok Heng Leun PRODUCTION MANAGER Nat Lim Director of Our Town STAGE MANAGER Geraldine Ang SET MODEL DESIGNER Chan Silei WIG STYLIST Amber Lim CAST TEO DAWN DESMOND SOH HENRIK CHENG ISABELLE LOW (SiNGAPORE) (SiNGAPORE) (USA) (SiNGAPORE) Dawn graduated from Dunman High Desmond was first captured by the power Henrik is a theatre practitioner from New York Isabelle sees herself as a dreamer and inspires School’s IP programme in 2012 and after of theatre in River Valley High where he City. His theatre career started when he signed to bring joy and stories to people through theatre. a two-year break, found herself in ITI, was a student. He then went on to join up as a backstage crew at Queens College at Through her exposure to Speech and Drama pursuing theatre training. and eventually head the school’s Chinese the City University of New York; he then went in her younger years, Isabelle quickly realised Language Drama and Debate Society, on to work as a light board technician with the how she loves listening, telling, creating and In her two-year break from school, Dawn participating in numerous performances. New York Fringe, and has also served as an performing stories. worked on theatre productions with Buds off-Broadway stage manager. Half a decade Theatre Company, contributed in editorial Spurred on by that theatrical start, Desmond later, he turned towards focussing on directing With the support of her family, teachers and to online platforms and gained some real- went on to be a part of Drama Box’s in theatre. To that end, he attended La MaMa’s prayer, she decided, since a fairly young age, to life experience with internships, before youth wing, ARTivate, and is a graduate Director’s Symposium (Umbria, Italy) in 2012, take the road less trodden and choose art studies deciding to join ITI in 2015. Most recently, of its second cohort in 2014. He has also followed by directing two site-specific pieces rather than a strictly academic track. in 2017, Dawn performed in Chicken served as director’s assistant (movement) in New Orleans prior to leaving for Singapore Curry by The Wright Stuff, a playwright for Kopitiam (2016), a programme of in 2014. Isabelle is a graduate from School of the Arts, incubation programme of Toy Factory Esplanade’s “Feed Your Imagination” series. Singapore (SOTA), and has performed in a Theatre Ensemble. His most recent projects in Singapore include musical Monsieur Vincent, The Saint For All After he graduates from ITI, Desmond plans facilitating Speak Cryptic’s The Tribe at SIFA Seasons (2003) with the Church of Saint Vincent With an interest in traditional performing to continue his work in acting, exploring O.P.E.N. 2016, content creation and performing de Paul. In 2016, Isabelle was involved in Pretty art forms and their rigour, coming to theatrical structures and how they can in Alamat Bahru with Wright Assembly, and Little Things, an installation performance ITI has been a journey of self-discovery, create spaces for conversations in the performing in Pretty Butch, a commission of directed by Ruyi Wong, Teaq and Osh, which challenge and growth for the young community. the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2017. was part of Kult Kafé’s Prototype Thursday theatre-maker. programme. Desmond has been a beneficiary of the Tan Henrik gravitates towards performing work Post-graduation, Dawn would like to Chay Bing Education Fund and is a recipient that provides hope, is healing, or encourages After ITI, Isabelle plans to pursue work in the develop original work. of the ITI-William Teo Scholarship. positive, proactive change. Singapore theatre community, and seek further training if necessary. Dawn is a recipient of the ITI Scholarship. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Isabelle is a recipient of the ITI Scholarship. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] MathIlde BAGEIN Namaha MAZoomdaR ReGINA Foo SARan JIth (FRance) (INDIA) (SiNGAPORE) (INDIA) Obsessed by the question “what is the essence From a very young age, Namaha has had an Regina’s love for the theatre was seeded at a Saranjith has been exploring and working of theatre?”, Mathilde Bagein obtained a inclination towards music and dance. She young age when she attended Chinese Speech in theatre, music and visual arts since 2007. degree in Scenic Arts from the Université has seven years of training in ballet, 11 in & Drama classes at the Singapore Hokkien He holds a bachelor’s degree with a focus on d’Artois, in 2012. singing, 13 in martial arts, and has been Huay Kuan Arts & Cultural Troupe (SHHK). painting and sculpture, and an MA and MPhil performing semi-classical dance on stage for (research) in Theatre Arts. Not fully satisfied with the answers she over a decade. While pursuing her marketing degree at found in the books, Mathilde joined the Singapore Management University, Regina Over the past nine years, Saranjith has exhibited Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de A sociology graduate, Namaha’s passion for continued to produce and direct theatrical his paintings in India, and has performed in over Lille and was selected for the three-year dance nevertheless persisted, and she is an works with her childhood friends from SHHK, 40 theatrical works in India and Singapore. He curriculum of Professionalisation in Acting. experienced performer in Odissi — an Indian and also taught speech and drama to young has also been awarded state and national level As part of her training, she discovered various classical dance form. While pursuing dance, children. acclaim for excellence in painting and acting old art forms such as taiji, mime, neutral and she chanced upon ITI. during his university studies in India. Notably, he larval masks, classic and baroque speech, as In 2014, after a stint at Paper Monkey Theatre has worked on several projects commissioned well as clowning. To Namaha, theatre training was a challenge, under the guidance of Benjamin Ho, she was by the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy and as she was principally a dancer. However, given the opportunity to be a co-puppeteer for Kerala Lalithakala Academy. Enriched by these learnings, she started to voice training fascinated her. She felt that The Wind Came Home as part of “Both Sides perform for different projects with var troupes projecting emotions through dance and Now – An Immersive Arts Experience about Saranjith also practices the mizhavu (Kerala at festivals in France. Pushed by the urge to speech lent a different dimension to a Death” presented by Arts Wok and Drama Box traditional percussion instrument) under discover how theatre is practised in other performance — an empowering one.
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