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13 – 16 October  2016

Centre 42 Blackbox

Playwright: Leow Puay Tin

Director: Adeeb Fazah

Assistant Director: Mark Benedict Cheong

Producer: Denise Dolendo, Kristine Ng

Production Manager: Chen Rui Yu

Lighting Designer: Martina Tan

Sound Designer: Mark Benedict Cheong

Costume Coordinator: Elisa Lim

Multimedia Designer: Xue Enge

Stage Manager: Nadia Cheriyan

Assistant Stage Manager: Marilyn Chew

Cast:

Al-Hafiz Sanusi

Alyssa Lie

Beatrice Chin

Ching Shu Yi

Chio Su-Ping

Ivan Choong

Juliana Kassim

Natalie Yeap

Sharon Phay

Tiara Yap

Yvaine Phan

 

The Second Breakfast Company, still fresh in the local theatre scene, aims to revive a large and undiscovered canon of local texts and reestablish their relevance for a contemporary audience. Well, they’ve done a commendable job of it. This performance took me on a journey through the highs and lows of seventy-odd years of family politics, with bold directing choices that left me on the edge of my seat all the way till the show’s end…. I really enjoyed myself watching Family, and I am sincerely looking forward to the next course, Second Breakfast! Kudos to a great show. – Bakchormeeboy

A double bill of new works

2 – 5 November 2017

Centre 42 Blackbox

Playwright (Lemmings): Myle Yan Tay

Playwright (The Wedding Pig): Chelsea Cheo

Director: Adeeb Fazah

Assistant Director: Mark Benedict Cheong

Producer: Denise Dolendo, Kristine Ng

Lighting Designer: Jim Chan

Sound Designer: Mark Benedict Cheong

Production Manager: Vivi Augustina

Stage Manager: Marilyn Chew

Cast:

Jelaine Ng

Jeramy Lim

Rachel Chin

Terrance Tan

Tia Guttensohn

“Ultimately, The Wedding Pig does make a valiant attempt to showcase a believable dysfunctional family falling apart in the face of tragedy, remaining staunchly grounded and occasionally fun despite its dark undertones. Chelsea Cheo knows how to write the unique, private language between close knit family members that seems completely alien to outsiders but perfectly familiar between blood relations, and one hopes to see this further developed in future works. For now, The Wedding Pig is enjoyable enough for a glimpse of what Cheo is capable of, and certainly, is a good start to a future in theatre.” – Bakchormeeboy

A dramatised reading of local plays, old and new. Presented at Late Night Texting 2018.

25 August 2018

Centre 42 Black Box

Playwrights: Lim Chor Pee, Haresh Sharma, Ovidia Yu, Chelsea Cheo, Joel Tan, Faith Ng

Director: Adeeb Fazah, Mark Benedict Cheong

Cast:

Jaisilan Sathiasilan

Kenneth Chia

Mark Benedict Cheong

Nur Hasyimah bte Hassan

Shannen Tan

 

“This was a rare chance to see older plays such as Lim Chor Pee’s Mimi Fan (performed to agonisingly camp soap opera levels by Kenneth Chia and and Nur Hasyimah bte Hassan) Haresh Sharma’s This Chord (And Others) brought to life, the latter of which was an unexpectedly brilliant appearance from 2BCo co-artistic director Mark Benedict Cheong who should absolutely appear onstage more often… Contemporary plays covered included Faith Ng’s Normal and Joel Tan’s Mosaic, both of which featured actress Shannen Tan whose surprisingly layered performances captured the rough-hewn exterior of her ‘ah lian’ characters, but also possessed a hint of vulnerability and softness lying underneath.” – Bakchormeeboy

31 May – 3 June 2018

Drama Centre Black Box

Playwright: Goh Poh Seng

Director: Adeeb Fazah

Assistant Director: Mark Benedict Cheong

Producer: Denise Dolendo, Kristine Ng

Dramaturg: Nah Dominic

Lighting Designer: Jim Chan

Set and Sound Designer: Mark Benedict Cheong

Costume Coordinator: Meihui Chen

Production Manager: Deena Shaqinah

Stage Manager: Cheong Hong Wei

Assistant Stage Manager: Ivan Tan

Cast:

Cheryl Tan

Benjamin Koh

Fadhil Daud

Ivan Choong

Lynn Chia

Miriam Cheong

Qotn Van S Y

Xie Shangbin

 

“2BCo is making a commendable effort at growing increasingly professional with each production, and it’s heartening to see this young company’s ambition in staging a full revival of such a classic work.” – Bakchormeeboy

 

“The Second Breakfast Company is commendable in their efforts to produce oft-studied but less performed plays from the Singaporean literary canon like The Moon is Less Bright and Family by Leow Puay Tin. The company takes the literary and academic themes and issues muffled under the printed text and brings it forth into an immediate and live present… their restaging of The Moon is Less Bright addresses the perennially important issues of social inequality while commenting on the differences with our current situation” – Arts Equator