Emergency Stairs presents OFFSTAGE

Emergency Shelter - training arm of the controversial experimental theatre company Emergency Stairs - brings you its first production, OFFSTAGE in May! Members of Emergency Shelter will take on roles in theatre as both cast and crew to look at conventions in theatre-making, and examine how we can look at roles in different ways.

Shelter Members & Performers

Chanel Chan, Chong Woon Yong, Darren Guo, Zachary Ho, WahWah Hung Chit Wah, Doreen Toh, Theresa Wee-Yenko, Jasmine Xie, Lina Yu.

About Emergency Stairs

Founded in 2017, 避难阶段 Emergency Stairs is a non-profit, multilingual, experimental theatre company in Singapore. It strives to bring artistic collaboration, experimentation and the creative process to the forefront of theatre-making, driven by creative dialogue, research and education, and in the process creating new works, grooming new talent, and consolidating new methods to approaching theatre.

Emergency Stairs is supported by the National Arts Council under the Seed Grant Scheme for the period from 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2020.

About Emergency Shelter

Emergency Shelter is Emergency Stairs’ training and research platform.

Through experimentation, creation and training, Emergency Shelter seeks to develop talent, consolidate methods and devise new creations. It seeks to uncover talents in creation, to research methods and realizing creations with methods.

Emergency Shelter is an artist training programme with a focus on creating new works, and researching new methods. In 2011 in Dali, Emergency Stairs artistic director Liu Xiaoyi developed a new set of methods for training in experimental theatre, which focuses on body, thought, creation and debate. Emergency Shelter seeks to transform its members into independent artists and creators through training.

About STAIRCASE

STAIRCASE is Emergency Stairs' new space. Situated in an industrial building, STAIRCASE is a space for creation and performance.

A staircase functions as joint between two or more floors, a passage between worlds, an architectural feature that extends space, promises more. A transitional escape, a place to pause and think, a convenient smoking point.

To be on a flight of stairs. We welcome you to our STAIRCASE.

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Remark

1) Advisory rating to be advised.

2) Latecomers must wait for suitable cue for admission, if any.

3) Post-show dialogues: Immediately after 2 June, 3pm & 3 June, 3pm performances

Ticketing information

1) Concession for full-time students at $15 till 29 May (CODE: student5)

-Student must present their student cards for admission.

2) Very limited tickets (if availabe) will be sold on a first-come-first-served basis at the door an hour before show time. Cash sale only at front-of-house.

3) For ticketing enquiry, please write to fire@emergencystairs.org