Events

Sound Plot is Centre 42's audio play series exploring the layered identities of Singapore through place-based storytelling. This collection brings together original audio plays written in response to the overlooked corners of our island - Jurong West, Tanjong Pagar, Pasir Panjang, and Waterloo Street - and launches a brand new audio play written by Centre 42's Writer-in-Residence, Nabilah Said. 

Pen Pals International is a new initiative in a partnership between Box of Tricks in the UK and Centre 42 in Singapore.We will be matching 6 UK playwrights with 6 Singaporean playwrights to for an international playwriting exchange. Writers will work together over a 6-month period from January until June 2025. Each pair will send each other work-in-progress and maintain regular contact through online meetings.  Box of Tricks and Centre 42 will introduce Pen Pals online, discussing their ideas at t

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

A crew of Earth’s best and brightest scientists lands on Mars, tasked with building the first human colony. But when the mission goes awry, so does the chain of command. Stranded in an alien world with no orders and no way home, the crew is forced to confront the question: without rules, how do they survive each other, who calls the shots, and what happens next, after that, and way later? As the lines between here and there blur, nothing feels as distant as it once seemed.Join us for a reading of this new p

DRAMATURGS & is a capsule series of roundtable conversations centering the work of and relationship between dramaturgs and their artistic collaborators. Dramaturgical thinking and application is integral in the work of all artists, yet a dramaturg’s role affords a dedicated lens that can expand and challenge artistic decisions. In cosy and candid sessions, we aim to unpack the relational, intricate and often invisible work of dramaturgs in creative processes and within artistic teams. The fourth in

Three emerging dramaturgs step into the spotlight to share their learnings from the Dramaturgs in Practice Training Programme 2024. Over the course of 2 practice attachments, dramaturgs-in-training Shona Benson, Shridar Mani and Sonia Kwek have navigated dramaturgical conversations with different kinds of artists, across different genres and at different phases of the creative process. Along the way, they have put both old and new ideas to the test and re-defined what being a dramaturg means to them.&n