THE NEST
by acclaimed playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz
42 WATERLOO ST
AUGUST 11–21 2022
Like all expecting parents, Kurt and Martha want the best for their baby. But they are working class and a baby is costly. What happens when an innocent side job spirals out of control? How far will the new parents go to create their ideal home?
Directed by Yale-NUS Lecturer of Theatre Jonathan Vandenberg (Classic Stage Company's Oresteia, Mabou Mines' The Kingdom) and featuring Ethel Yap (Four Horse Road, Urinetown: The Musical) and Te Hao Boon (Cost of Caring, The Hawker), with design by Elizabeth Mak (project Salome, The Public's The Chinese Lady) and Johanna Pan (Snow in Midsummer, Recalling Mother), The Nest is a haunting parable on the tangled relationship between materialism, obedience, and ecological devastation. Written in 1974 Bavaria and locally set, this timeless play eerily resonates with the struggles of a modern family in Singapore.
CREATIVE TEAM
CAST
Kurt
Martha
TE HAO BOON
ETHEL YAP
ARTISTIC
Playwright
Director & Sound Designer
Set & Lighting Designer
Costume Designer
Dramaturg
FRANZ XAVER KROETZ
JONATHAN VANDENBERG
ELIZABETH MAK
JOHANNA PAN
GLORIA ANG XIAO TENG
Performance Stage Manager
Rehearsal Stage Manager
Wardrobe Coordinator
Assistant Director
Assistant Producer
TAN XIN YOU
PATRICIA GABRIEL
GLENNA NG
KYLE FOO
EUGENE CHOW
IMDA Rating:
Advisory (Some Mature Content)
this theme of absence illuminated the play—absence of will, of conscience, of agency. I was transfixed, unsettled, but ultimately hopeful that there were young collectives like this asking such hard and necessary questions.
--Alfian Sa'at
This is a play that shows how it is all too easy to turn a blind eye to the problems of the world, and...gets its audiences to think about how their own actions may have a ripple effect, and to open their eyes and change before it comes back to bite you.
-- Bakchormeeboy
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