A child’s education begins with character development. Allowing our children to learn behaviours that reflect universal ethical values from young — that is the mission of the Practice Education Project.
Mdm Goh Lay Kuan, Co-founder & Artistic Advisor of The Theatre Practice
Theatre nurtures our children into empathetic and critical thinkers. It has the power to offer different perspectives, energise learning, and equip them with tools to change the world.
Extend the Experience in the Classroom
All productions come with resource packs, which include suggested classroom activities, thematic discussions and an introduction to theatre.
An unforgettable experience! Venture outside the school hall and introduce students to their first trip to the theatre. All of our physical school shows can be performed at Practice Space, our very own black box theatre.
The Theatre Practice is one of Singapore’s oldest providers of quality school shows. In the past year, our shows have reached over 12,500 students from 60 schools!
⭐ Created by award-winning Theatre For Young Audiences practitioners
⭐ Highly interactive with opportunities for audience participation
⭐ Well-supported with our experienced Advocacy Team and on-site crew
Frequently Asked Questions
The content is relevant to the local context and suitable for lower primary. The programme was very engaging and our students were even singing the songs after the show!
Teacher, The Nursery Rhymes Project: Imagine Our Songs
Easily understandable thanks to the actors. The post-show discussion allows students to reflect on their own moral values, while the interactive nature not only gets the students thinking, but ensures that all of them participate.
Teacher, Canned Rat Meat
This programme provided opportunities for students to not just view a theatre performance but also have a say through providing conditions and collaboration with actors on stage.
The Nursery Rhymes Project: Imagine Our Songs presents a re-invention of classic Mandarin nursery rhymes in the form of interactive theatrical performances.
Conceived by Artistic Director Kuo Jian Hong, this school show is brought to you by the creative team behind Practice’s acclaimed Theatre for Young Audience productions.
More than a performance, it is an innovative approach to help children embrace the Chinese language at a tender age. Featuring short stories and familiar tunes, this high-energy, interactive show invites you to sing, dance and groove along!
Show Details:
Format: Physical/Digital
Duration: 30 mins
Language: Mandarin
Audience Capacity:
Physical: 150 pax
Digital: No limit
Price: $1,900 + prevailing GST (check Practice website for full list of subsidies)
Venue & Technical Requirements: Performance space needs to be at least 8.5m (width) x 5m (depth) x 2.2m (height), with the audience facing the width. Sound equipment will be provided.
适合对象:
小学
《A HA!——8分钟的光明》
未来的某年某月某日，太阳决定出走，离开地球。
太阳的余光仅剩8分钟。
当地球上只剩下8分钟的光明，你会做什么？
珍贵的8分钟里，会发生什么事？
跟着可爱英雄 A Ha，一同踏上寻找太阳、拯救世界的史诗远征。结合观众参与、小丑表演和打击乐， 《A HA!——8分钟的光明》将为观众带来一场充满欢乐和娱乐“笑”果的冒险！让我们一起思考面对气候变迁可以 采取哪些实际行动，对未来抱持积极正向的态度。
演出资讯：
格式：现场演出
时长：30分钟
语言：华语或英语
观众人数：200人
费用：$1,900＋消费税（欢迎前往实践剧场官网查看 可使用的津贴辅助）
场地和技术需求：学校礼堂或讲堂皆可。音响设备由
剧团自备。
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A HA! — 8 Minutes of Light
In a not-so-distant future, the sun has disappeared! Earth has 8 minutes of light left before the world is plunged into eternal darkness.
What will you do in 8 minutes? With 8 minutes left, what can happen??
Join lovable hero A Ha as he embarks on an epic quest to find the sun and save the world. A HA! — 8 Minutes of Light combines audience participation, clowning and percussion for a hilarious and hijinks-filled adventure about taking action and imagining a positive future in the face of climate change.
Show Details:
Format: Physical
Duration: 30 mins
Language: Mandarin OR English
Audience Capacity: 200 pax
Price: $1,900 + prevailing GST (check Practice website for full list of subsidies) Venue & Technical Requirements: School hall or auditorium; sound equipment will be provided.
No safety in scripts. No time to ponder. Will your imagination take flight, or will it flounder?
Spin a tale, tell a story. If they’re not fast asleep, you’re halfway to glory. The Theatre Practice has officially thrown the gauntlet… Are you game?
Faster than you can say on-the-spot improvisation, The Theatre Practice brings the mind-bending, fast-talking madness of Story Challenge straight to your school.
In the last few years, we have brought the show to over 140 schools, and reached over 73,000 students. The audience participates by contributing themes and conditions for the stories to be told by our quick-thinking actors, who are given a mere five minutes to create each story.
Not your typical performance. Let your imagination and creativity run wild. We challenge you to think outside the norm!
Show Details:
Format: Physical/Digital
Duration: 45 mins (Physical) 30 mins (Digital)
Language: Mandarin OR English
Audience Capacity: No limit
Price: $1,900 + prevailing GST (check Practice website for full list of subsidies)
Venue & Technical Requirements: School hall or auditorium; sound equipment will be provided.
“Extra! Extra! Read all about it! There is a Black Death (Plague) outbreak in South Africa!”
In order to support his family, Panchito works at an overseas meat packing company. The company wants to bid for a project to provide 2,000 tons of meat to South Africans. In order to outbid the other canned meat companies, Panchito is entrusted with the task to find the cheapest meat. Beef, mutton, pork... The meat market is very competitive. In order to keep his job, Panchito begins looking for the cheapest alternative and eventually completes his task. However, what does Panchito have to do with the Black Death outbreaks in faraway South Africa?
Featuring an innovative in-the-round staging, Canned Rat Meat offers a modern refresh of the classic 1982 play by Argentinian playwright Osvaldo Dragún. The production also features a post-show talk conducted by our performers, which will lead students to reflect on the complexities behind the choices we make.
Show Details:
Format: Physical
Duration: 1 hour
Language: Mandarin
Audience Capacity: 200 pax
Price: $2,250 + prevailing GST (check Practice website for full list of subsidies)
Venue & Technical Requirements: School hall or auditorium; sound equipment will be provided.
I don’t know why, but it keeps coming back to me. This dream. Every time I get frustrated, it comes back to me.
It’s the funeral. My grandfather’s.
I mean if this is your father, your grandfather, or your granduncle getting buried and his coffin won’t fit into the grave, what do you do about it?
A classic piece of Singapore theatre, The Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole was written in 1985 by theatre doyen Kuo Pao Kun — widely regarded as the founding father of Modern Drama in Singapore.
The timeless comedy is a powerful allegory on what it means to be of a “standard size”. Written in an engaging conversational style, the monodrama invites audiences into the shoes of the narrator as he explores the struggles and dilemmas that come with making big decisions.
To deepen engagement, a post-show discussion will be facilitated by our performers for students to reflect on the complexities behind the decisions we make. What are the choices you make when things are not “one-size-fits-all”?
Show Details:
Format: Physical
Duration: 1 hour
Language: Mandarin OR English
Audience Capacity: 200 pax
Price: $2250 + Prevailing GST (check Practice website for full list of subsidies)
Venue & Technical Requirements: School hall or auditorium; sound equipment will be provided.
当你在游戏时，你的思想是自由的；当你在游戏时， 你的思维能天马行空，所有的不可能都变成有可能。
游戏不是儿戏。
——郭践红（实践剧场艺术总监）
When you play, you free up the mind. When you play, your brain is stimulated and suddenly, even the impossible becomes possible. Play is serious business.
Kuo Jian Hong, Artistic Director of The Theatre Practice
Through active participation, students are given space for creativity and self- expression. Beyond art-making knowledge, our workshops and talks can also build key soft-skills including teamwork, communication and conflict management.
(The workshop) has helped me as now I can spot the warning signs in a conflict and better adjust the way I respond.
Secondary School Student, Cooling Conflict
This workshop has given me a better understanding of Chinese-language theatre, along with Mandarin language skills and theatrical knowledge. It has also allowed me to use Mandarin to express myself through performance and communicate with others in Mandarin.
Secondary School Student, Theatre Enrichment Workshop
The talk was very good! I learnt about the importance of following our dreams , and gained a better understanding of the playwright’s life and his works, along with a deeper understanding of literature and theatre.
Junior College student, Who is Kuo Pao Kun?
TELL US WHAT YOU NEED
Speak to our Advocacy Team to customise a programme specially for your students! 6337 2525 TTPeducation@practice.org.sg
酷凌行动
面对日常生活的大小冲突，我们该如何应对？怎么处理自己的情绪？ 经澳洲格里菲斯大学名誉教授 John O’Toole 指导，酷凌行动工作坊运用过程戏剧和论坛剧场的形式， 帮助学生深入了解冲突的不同阶段。
How can we manage our emotions when a conflict of opinions occurs?
Working with project consultant Honorary Professor John O’Toole (Griffith University), Cooling Conflict harnesses process drama techniques and forum theatre interventions to help participants gain an insight into understanding different stages of conflicts.
Equipping participants with a cognitive understanding of conflict, this workshop empowers students to manage conflicts encountered in school. It will also develop the participants’ sensitivity, awareness of self and others, enhance team cohesion and provide a safe and constructive environment to integrate these strategies in real-life interactions with their classmates.
Uses improvisation, movement and voice to cultivate the student’s creativity and language skills. Based off Practice’s long-running Story Challenge school shows.
Programme Details:
Suitable For: Primary, Secondary (maximum 25 students to 1 instructor)
Duration: Minimum 1 session, with at least 3 hours per session
Language: Mandarin OR English
Price: Our workshops are highly customisable and fees will differ accordingly. Please contact us to find out more.
Venue & Technical Requirements: A studio or an empty classroom with tables/chairs cleared to the sides.
Theatre Enrichment Workshop
Builds a deep understanding about a specific aspect of theatre. Choose between Vocal and Speech Training, Acting, Body Movement, Storytelling, Directing, Scriptwriting, Production and Stage Management.
Programme Details:
Suitable For: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary (maximum 25 students to 1 instructor)
Duration: Minimum 1 session, with at least 3 hours per session
Language: Mandarin OR English
Price: Our workshops are highly customisable and fees will differ accordingly. Please contact us to find out more.
Venue & Technical Requirements: A studio or an empty classroom with tables/chairs cleared to the sides. Click to find out
Playwright, dramatist and a pioneer of Singapore theatre — get to know the man behind seminal works like The Silly Little Girl and The Funny Old Tree and Kopitiam.
Programme Details:
Suitable For: Secondary, Tertiary
Duration: Approx. 1 hour
Language: Mandarin OR English
Price: $20 per student (Minimum $600 per booking) + prevailing GST
Venue & Technical Requirements: Classroom, rehearsal studios, school hall or auditorium with projector and speakers
What is Theatre?
What goes into creating live performance? Get a behind-the-scenes look at your favourite Practice productions and learn the basics of theatre from our art-makers.
Programme Details:
Suitable For: Secondary, Tertiary
Duration: Approx. 1 hour
Language: Mandarin OR English
Price: $20 per student (Minimum $600 per booking) + prevailing GST
Venue & Technical Requirements: Classroom, rehearsal studios, school hall or auditorium with projector and speakers Click to find out
Our relationship with language has changed so much. I’m not referring to any specific language. Rather, it appears that our children can only access language on a very ‘functional’ or ‘academic’ level. Theatre becomes a bridge to allow for a much more accessible way for them to connect with language and hence, begin to accumulate their own sense of culture.
Kuo Jian Hong, Artistic Director of The Theatre Practice
Theatre is a useful tool to bring school curriculum to life. It increases motivation, improves knowledge retention and reaches students who don’t respond to traditional classroom methods!
The workshop was an eye-opener... It helped me to see the potential of using drama to strengthen awareness of and also deepen relationships with others due to its communicative nature.
The Theatre Practice is recognised as a pioneer in arts education in Singapore, with PEP as one of our Advocacy Team’s key initiatives.
Programmes under PEP complement and extend the Practice philosophy that the human experience should always be the core of our work. With this exposure students learn to develop personal and social capabilities such as: self-discipline, empathy, passion, confidence, and creativity.
Key programmes include weekend children’s courses, as well as well-received short-term and long-term initiatives (shows, workshops, talks, teachers’ training) that bridge a student’s relationship with the performing arts.
With PEP, our programmes:
1. Advocate a culture of “Play”
As a pioneer in providing arts education in Singapore, PEP’s unique approach combines training in various aspects of the performing arts with the spirit of “Play”.
2. Create multi-faceted opportunities for exposure to Chinese language and culture in Singapore
With Practice’s long-standing history in promoting Chinese language and culture through the arts, PEP is pivotal in creating child-oriented programmes to advocate for this cause.
The Theatre Practice (Practice) is Singapore’s longest-standing professional bilingual theatre institution. Artist-driven and deeply progressive, Practice strives to be an arts space in Singapore that consciously nurtures and empowers people who care about humanity. Over the past 60 years, we have developed and presented works that aim to reflect the richness and complexities of Singapore’s diverse cultures.
Today, we carry on the work of our visionary co-founders and cultural medallion recipients, Kuo Pao Kun and Goh Lay Kuan. Under the helm of current Artistic Director Kuo Jian Hong, Practice continues to shape Singapore’s cultural landscape as the definitive voice in Singapore theatre. Jian Hong is deeply influenced by the importance of play in art-making and under her leadership, Practice has become the embodiment of the irrepressible spirit and fearless experimentation of play.
Practice is motivated by a desire to always respectfully entertain. We have collaborated with Singapore and international artists alike to present a critically-acclaimed repertoire of over 350 productions including musicals, classics, original and experimental works. We have toured extensively in the region. Many of our works have entered the canon of Southeast Asian literature and have been adapted and presented by theatre companies worldwide, presenting an authentically Singaporean voice on the world stage.
Since our inception, Practice has served as a cultural bridge between Asia and the world. Our recent theatre festival – Patch! A (Live) Theatre Festival of Play – comes from a legacy of carefully curated festivals and seminars that gather practitioners of all disciplines and cultures for sharing and exchange, while providing a valuable platform for outstanding international works.
As pioneers in Arts Education in Singapore, Practice has been instrumental both in nurturing leaders in the Singapore arts scene, and inculcating a love for the arts in generations of Singapore youth.
Artistically diverse and constantly relevant, Practice will always engage with the ceaseless exploration of new frontiers.
The Theatre Practice is supported by the National Arts Council under the Major Company Scheme for the period of April 2023 to March 2026. Practice is also an Institution of Public Character and a recipient of MCCY’s Charity Transparency Award 2023.
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电话 Tel 6337 2525 电邮 Email TTPeducation@practice.org.sg
