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One Thousand Millennials Crying Kenneth Chia & Mitchell Fang (Singapore) 27 January 2018, 2pm & 4pm Esplanade Rehearsal Studio
60 mins with no intermission
Fringe Commission ● World Premiere
Advisory Some Mature Content and Coarse Language
One Thousand Millennials Crying Kenneth Chia & Mitchell Fang (Singapore) 27 January 2018, 2pm & 4pm Esplanade Rehearsal Studio
60 mins with no intermission
Fringe Commission ● World Premiere
Advisory Some Mature Content and Coarse Language

Kenneth Chia is a theatre maker, kidult and model citizen. He believes in creating bold, urgent and accessible experiences.

Mitchell Fang is a performer, theatre maker, and bedroom poet. He believes in empowering people through the arts, and in theatre for social change.

It’s Halloween but the city is too expensive. So Steven and his millennial™ friends celebrate indoors in true glamping tradition: a blanket fort in an air-conditioned room with an en-suite toilet; a humidifier casts its eerie mist.

As the motley crew meditate on their fears and future in a bleak world, the boozy party spirals out of control. His mother grows increasingly angry. Howling wind shakes the fort; an ang ku kueh cushion calls out.

Perhaps they’ve overstayed their welcome.

Should they stay till the first train, or leave and pay surge pricing?

Presented in collaboration with Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay and with support from Cultural Matching Fund, Young Changemakers and the National Youth Council.

Where Heng’s work reflects on notions of identity, this work invites the audience to consider the lack thereof, through a lens that is unapologetically millennial—a community that has simultaneously flourished and buckled under the weight of its own label; one that’s been credited with very much and very little, and is also convenient and expendable, just like the attitude towards the women who inspired Let’s Walk.

One Thousand Millennials Crying thus explores the parallels between the various generations—Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials—how they are similar, how they are different, how their thoughts and ideals have emerged from nation-building narratives and more importantly, the new histories that must be created to reclaim and advance identity.

Click here to find the route to Esplanade.

It’s Halloween but the city is too expensive. So Steven and his millennial™ friends celebrate indoors in true glamping tradition: a blanket fort in an air-conditioned room with an en-suite toilet; a humidifier casts its eerie mist.

As the motley crew meditate on their fears and future in a bleak world, the boozy party spirals out of control. His mother grows increasingly angry. Howling wind shakes the fort; an ang ku kueh cushion calls out.

Perhaps they’ve overstayed their welcome.

Should they stay till the first train, or leave and pay surge pricing?

Presented in collaboration with Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay and with support from Cultural Matching Fund, Young Changemakers and the National Youth Council.

RELATION TO THEME

Where Heng’s work reflects on notions of identity, this work invites the audience to consider the lack thereof, through a lens that is unapologetically millennial—a community that has simultaneously flourished and buckled under the weight of its own label; one that’s been credited with very much and very little, and is also convenient and expendable, just like the attitude towards the women who inspired Let’s Walk.

One Thousand Millennials Crying thus explores the parallels between the various generations—Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials—how they are similar, how they are different, how their thoughts and ideals have emerged from nation-building narratives and more importantly, the new histories that must be created to reclaim and advance identity.

Kenneth Chia is a theatre maker, kidult and model citizen. He believes in creating bold, urgent and accessible experiences.

Mitchell Fang is a performer, theatre maker, and bedroom poet. He believes in empowering people through the arts, and in theatre for social change.

Getting Here

Click here to find the route to Esplanade.