Live Fringe
27 January 2018, 2pm & 5pm Various spaces, Centre 42
105 mins with no intermission
Fringe Commission ● Asian Premiere
Post-show dialogues will be held after the 8pm performances only.
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27 January 2018, 2pm & 5pm Various spaces, Centre 42
105 mins with no intermission
Fringe Commission ● Asian Premiere
Post-show dialogues will be held after the 8pm performances only.
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*Concessions for students, NSFs, senior citizens and PWD card holders
Corporate conglomerate ARC has reached out to the public in a bid to decipher a mysterious databank that has surfaced on their Artificial Intelligence (AI) system named J.O.A.N.. Your profiling skills are urgently required to halt this potential international crisis.
Attempts: Singapore is an immersive theatrical experience that draws inspiration from Martin Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life. It takes audience-participants through a non-linear narrative pieced together through the accounts of various witnesses who attempt to describe a missing character named Anne—and in doing so, may incriminate her in the ARC incident. As we collectively try to define her, are we closer to understanding—or destroying—her?
Attempts: Singapore will be performed by Farez Najid, Henrik Cheng, Julie Wee, Sabrina Sng and Suhaili Safari.
Due to the nature of this work, only 22 audience-participants will be admitted per show.
Developed in residence at Centre 42.
Attempts: Singapore is an experience-based roving theatrical performance that challenges our perception of how we see this individual character Anne, and in doing so, forces us to re-consider how our societal influences can and will affect our actions.
The images within the play function like puzzle pieces to reflect the pathos of the modern world we live in. These myriad data—albeit distorted and nonsensical at times—are sorted and put together as we attempt to make sense of the character. Yet in doing so, we are compelled to investigate our perception towards the female body, one which can be disruptive, explosive and even disconcerting.
Anne is not just a single person, but a representation of how we deconstruct the world.
Click here to find the route to Centre42.
Corporate conglomerate ARC has reached out to the public in a bid to decipher a mysterious databank that has surfaced on their Artificial Intelligence (AI) system named J.O.A.N.. Your profiling skills are urgently required to halt this potential international crisis.
Attempts: Singapore is an immersive theatrical experience that draws inspiration from Martin Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life. It takes audience-participants through a non-linear narrative pieced together through the accounts of various witnesses who attempt to describe a missing character named Anne—and in doing so, may incriminate her in the ARC incident. As we collectively try to define her, are we closer to understanding—or destroying—her?
Attempts: Singapore will be performed by Farez Najid, Henrik Cheng, Julie Wee, Sabrina Sng and Suhaili Safari.
Due to the nature of this work, only 22 audience-participants will be admitted per show.
Developed in residence at Centre 42.
RELATION TO THEME
Attempts: Singapore is an experience-based roving theatrical performance that challenges our perception of how we see this individual character Anne, and in doing so, forces us to re-consider how our societal influences can and will affect our actions.
The images within the play function like puzzle pieces to reflect the pathos of the modern world we live in. These myriad data—albeit distorted and nonsensical at times—are sorted and put together as we attempt to make sense of the character. Yet in doing so, we are compelled to investigate our perception towards the female body, one which can be disruptive, explosive and even disconcerting.
Anne is not just a single person, but a representation of how we deconstruct the world.
“...a very successful performance, which allows the audience to be spectators and participators in this thought-provoking piece. The team’s effort in creating such a spectacular performance is commendable.” —Pandaren Peng, Union House Theatre Chinese Reviews Melbourne, on an earlier version of Attempts in Melbourne (translated from Chinese)
Getting Here
Click here to find the route to Centre42.