Keep Singapore theatre fresh by embracing risk and failure

'By [the mid-2000s], the impact of training and mentorship programmes set up from the late 1990s could be felt. These included The Necessary Stage's Playwright's Cove, where [Natalie] Hennedige and Chong [Tze Chien] cut their teeth; and the Intercultural Theatre Institute, which gives actors a grounding in Asian and Western performance traditions. Peter Sau, who was in [Hennedige's] Nothing and is up for a Best Actor nomination this year for the Nine Years Theatre comedy Art, is a graduate of the programme.'

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