Company Profile
The
Players Theatre is one of
Singapore’s
leading Children’s Theatre Companies. We were established in July 2003 as a
non-profit Children’s Theatre with the mission to ‘Touch Hearts and Build
Lives’. Our major focus is outreach - to youth and family in the community -
through the presentation of professional quality theatre productions and
programmes. We have a special focus on the disadvantaged. We believe that
the opportunity to experience the joy and wonder of good theatre is integral
to every young life, and should be offered regardless of status or ability.
As such, we open our shows, our doors and our hearts to these young
individuals and their families/caregivers at no cost to them. In line with
our objectives, the Players Theatre is now a recognised charity number 1769.
2007
Season
Season
update coming soon.
2006
Season
2006
was a year filled with lots of exciting theatre for us. We started off with
Roald Dahl's "The BFG" which had the close to 7,000 audience members who
came to watch our show screaming with delight. This show marks our biggest
attendance yet. Then we staged the Tony Award Nominated musical "A Year With
Frog And Toad". Our talented and dedicated cast performed over 45 shows in
our sell-out 2 week. This show marks the most number of performances we've
done in a single run.
2005
Season
Our
season started off with the musical adaptation of Judith Viorst’s classic
book, “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”. The
musical brought over 6,000 people to the theatre, countless new schools and
introduced the children from AWWA to the theatre. “The Little Prince”, our
Asian Children’s Festival 2005 offering based on the Antoine de Saint
Exupery classic marked the first commercial event to be staged at the
Singapore Indoor Stadium Blackbox and brought in more than 6,500 people
including many new audiences and non-native english speakers.
2004
season
We
presented the Asian Premiere of ‘Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse’, an
international success based on the award-winning same name book written by
award-winning children’s author Kevin Henkes. The Players Theatre production
played to sold out houses, bringing in over 3000 audience members from
schools and the general public. Inline with our outreach aims, more than 500
children and families from over 7 Voluntary Welfare Organisations such as
the Children’s Cancer Foundation, Beyond Social Services and the Singapore
Children’s Society were beneficiaries of our open door policy. To wrap up
the year, we staged Roald Dahl’s “The Twits” as part of the Asian Children’s
Festival 2004. The show ended our season with a big bang and was the
highlight of the year for many. We surpassed our objectives, reaching out to
over 5800 children and families and adding the Assisi Home and Hospice as a
beneficiary of our outreach arm. We played to students from 32 local and
international primary schools and kindergartens.
2003
Season
In
November 2003, we presented our debut production ‘The Noodle Doodle Box’ as
part of the Asian Children’s Festival 2003, organised by the National
Library Board. The show was a resounding success, receiving rave reviews
from children, adults and educators alike. ‘The Noodle Doodle Box’, a show
about friendship and acceptance, made us many friends and brought many a
smile and laugh to the heart of each and every audience member. The
excellent production values brought recognition from the National Arts
Council and the Players Theatre was invited to be part of the Singapore Arts
Festival 2004 Outreach Programme where we staged “Boy”, an original
adaptation of Shel Silverstein’s classic, “The Giving Tree”. This community
project was brought to the heartlands with the goal to create new audiences.
Another success.
Everything-In-Between
Besides main season programming and our involvement in Arts Festivals, the
Players Theatre is also heavily involved in Arts Education and work with
Government bodies and Community Development Councils for outreach purposes.
We run Theatre-In-Education programmes for schools, ITE’s and the Health
Promotion Board to name a few, dealing with issues that range from smoking,
to childhood injury prevention,
to safe sex. On the corporate level, we work with Bain & Co to bring theatre
to the special children at MINDS and to the children at the Mt. Alvernia
Cancer Ward.
The
Players Theatre is run by a group of dedicated, passionate professionals
with a wealth of experience under their belts. Helmed by Carina Hales, the
Artistic Director of the company, the Players Theatre’s reputation is
growing: one of Singapore’s leading Children’s Theatre Companies, known for
quality productions, inspiring programmes, good values and a heart in
community outreach.
Outreach
These are some of the Voluntary Welfare Organisations that
have benefited from our open door policy:
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Beyond Social
Services
¨ Beyond Social
Services Bukit Ho Swee Family Service Centre
¨
Singapore Children’s Society
¨
Singapore Children’s Society Convalescent Home
¨
Children’s Cancer Foundation
¨
Yio Chu Kang Home
¨
Covenant Family Service Centre
¨
Canossian Home
¨
MINDS
¨
Mt. Alvernia
Hospital ¨
AWWA ¨
Hougang Sheng Hong Family Service Centre
To date:
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Over 55,000 children and
families have watched a Players Theatre production
¨
We have played to over 50
local and international Primary Schools and Kindergartens.
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