Wisdom of Monkeys Productions
Presents
Ex-ceptance
5 plays in
1
USE: The Elephant
Colouring Book
USE: The Robot
Tuesday Afternoon
USE: The Tissue Paper
5 original stories about what we can accept - and the
exceptions.
Watch an exceptional performance that unites poetry, prose and
play.
Use: The elephant
Those who built our homes brick by brick, can you accept them
into your
home? An elephant in Bangladesh is brought to Singapore to
build houses for
the people. Thinking about the happiness of those who
will live in the houses
he builds gives him such joy. He is useful, and he is
proud of it.
The Colouring Book
If your child has a different way of seeing the world, can you
accept that?
A little girl is taught what the "correct" colours to fill in
a colouring book are.
"Little girl, you know it's true, The grass is green, the sky
is blue"
rings from two adults constantly, reminding her of the
"truth".
USE: The robot's tale
Those who slave away to lighten your workload, can you accept
them
when they are old and worn out? The robot works his entire life
with
no rest and no joy. He has to prove his worth as every year, new
robot
models appear on the assembly line. That's why he has to work and
work
and work, until the day people find out that robots can die as
well.
Tuesday Afternoon
If your best friend makes a decision that horrifies you, can
you
accept it for her sake? On a Tuesday afternoon, Zelda reveals to
her
best friend Susan the horrible truth – that she has stage
three
cervical cancer, and that she is pregnant. Radiotherapy would cost
the
life of the baby. Zelda has to choose between keeping the baby
or
saving her own life, and Susan has a part to play in her
decision.
USE: The tissue paper
Those who take care of our children, can you accept them as
family?
She is a maid who takes care of her employer's children and cleans
the
house from dawn till dusk. She is like a packet of tissue paper
and all she
wants is to be allowed to be "used" one more time before
she's thrown away.
Written by Hemang Yadav, Lee Gao Ju (Top Ten Winning concept for
Fly By Night 2007),
Gillian Tan and Dew M. Chaiyanara (Merit Award
in Scriptwriting, Singapore Broadcasting
Authority,
2001 & People's Choice, Short & Sweet Festival
Singapore 2007).
Performed by Hemang Yadav (Best Performer Singapore Writers
Festival Read Competition 2007),
Lee Gao Ju, Gillian Tan and Liew Liting.
Directed by Dew M. Chaiyanara and Marissa Jansz
(Director of winning team, All-Island Interschool Shakespeare
Drama Competition 2007 Boys Category, Sri Lanka)
Stage Manager – Chew Keng Kiat
Date: 6th December
2008
Time: 4pm
Venue: Woodlands Library Auditorium
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Ticketing details:
$15 for 1st category tickets.
$13.50 for 2nd category tickets.
Discount of $1.50 per ticket with block booking of 5 or more
tickets.
For tickets contact Lee Gao Ju at
93897833 or email to [email protected]