Week 1: 19 -22 Oct 2011
Here is the actual running order for the performance.
1. Russell Crowe, Gupta and the Dalek
Playwright: Jackie Greenland
Director: John Newman
2. Best Ever Creation Story Contest
Playwright: Eoin Carney
Director: Elaine Foster
Everyone’s competing in the inaurugal “Best Ever Creation Story Contest”. Who will win? The Bible’s pretty confident, and Big Bang theory thinks it’s all a formality. And who’s fit to judge this contest anyway?
3. Sky High Heels For Mami
Playwright: Loshana a/p K Shagar
Director: Tavleen Tarrant
Mami’s old-fashioned opinion on high-heeled shoes is challenged when she receives a gift of sky-high heels. Will she embrace the modern gift, or dismiss it as something worn by prostitutes?
4. Life Decisions
Playwright: BB Ostella Adam
Director: Kent Tan
Choosing a school, finding a job, how you live, and how you die – how many of these life decisions are made by us or for us?
5. Caretaker
Playwright: Calvin Wong
Director: Jeremy Ooi
Laurie is dying. Her two brothers disagree, violently, on her course of treatment. Holed up in Laurie's hospital room, Rob and Jay orbit helplessly around their grief, uncertainty, and anger.
6. Because The World Needs Unicorns
Playwright: Cerise De Gelder
Director: Jude James
A desperate refugee begs for safe haven and is met with rigid rules and red tape. But he hasn’t arrived on a boat…he needs to get on one!
7. I Am Not Julia Roberts!
Playwright: Nandang Abdul Rahman
Director: Malik Taufiq
Life goes on at least until an anonymously sent wedding invitation forces 2 men to face the facts that they have a problem with letting go of the past.
8. Who Moved My Donut?
Playwright: Tita Wariss
Director: Megat Sharizal
A constant conflict of life created by our confusing and evolving life standards discussed from a sweet and roundy perspective.
9. Boleh Saya Bantu?
Playwright: Ashraf Zain
Director: Ooi Kee How
Sometimes help is just a call away.
10. The Beginning
Playwright: Natalie Heng
Director: Derian Yew
The Beginning delves into the complexities of a history contained in Tina, and reveals how wounds raw from the past also make us ripe for the impact of new encounters in the future.
Every new beginning grows from the darkness of someone’s past.
11. When You Can't Stop Running (不停奔跑暴走记)
Playwright: Freddy Tan
Director: Goo Zhuan Xuan
Jason found himself in a strange condition – he can’t stop running. He just couldn't stop. If you were in his shoes, what would you do?
12. The Joy of Solitude
Playwright: Dean Lundquist
Director: Mark Beau De Silva
Charlie Sumac's lifestyle is forever changed when he inadvertently locks himself in his apartment.
Week 2: 26 -29 Oct 2011
1. Echo
Playwright: Toby Teh
Director: Khalilul Rahman
What happens when you can't see where your dreams will take you?
You follow your heart.
2. Significant
Playwright: Alexis Wong
Director: Edward Liew
A late night cigarette prompts two women to ponder about their significance.
3. Failing Elijah
Playwright: Alex Chua
Director: Dinesh Kumar
Elijah has been a naughty girl. A very naughty girl and now she is called in to see the headmistress of her school. Perhaps she has gone too far, perhaps she has not, but how she fares in this meeting will decide her future at their school.
4. These Things We Talk About
Playwright: Shiva Shobitha
Director: Calvin Wong
Ambiguity manifests itself in many forms throughout our lives. "These things we talk about..." is a collection of moments captured through unadulterated conversations that explore the ambiguity faced in everyday relationships.
5. Cargone
Playwright: John Newman
Director: Amir Yunos
Life as it could be living in a realm somewhere between the reality of the stage and reality itself.
6. Birthday
Playwright: Jon Chew
Director: Nurul Badriah
Man, and his illusion of true love.
Playwright: Sharon Lam
Director: Christopher Ling (Not eligible for Best Director award)
Shit Gets Too Personal chronicles the struggles of a woman who has recently decided to come out of the closet, so to speak. But with so many skeletons in her closet, will her coming out prove to be a haunting experience instead?
8. Thank God We're Italians!
Playwright: Catherine Ooi
Director: Karanbir Hundal
Ah, Italians. A comedy of manners with Godfathers, Padres, prima donnas, and mama’s boys, with all the sauciness of an Opera Buffa!
9. The Rice of the Kaiser
Playwright: Cheah Ui Hua
Director: Yusuf Amin
In order to eliminate the Juice, all you need is a beer hall putsch. Sometimes a shove. And for dessert: Luftwaffles.
10. Malaysia's First Catholic Hippo
Playwright: Terence Toh
Director: Ivan Gan
An unexpected visitor throws a church into disarray. Is he a gift or a curse?
11. Cast Adrift
Playwright: Patrick Christopher Lee
Director: Freddy Tan
Water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink. Ocean-stranded four are there, pushed on to the brink.
12. Rupert and the Seven Russian Email Brides
Playwright: Alex Broun (Not eligible for Best Script award)
Director: Kelvin Wong
When Petra meets Rupert one day at work, he seems quite nice. Maybe they could go out sometime. But first she has to fight off the competition - Darya, Tatyana, Vera, Alena, Sabryn B, Natalia and Olga. A comedy about being very, very lucky in love.
Congratulations to all selected directors and playwrights! Future correspondence between S+S Malaysia and the respective groups will be done via the Directors.
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