Tan Shou Chen

Directing

Joel Tan’s Mosaic, Esplanade The Studios 2023

MosaicWritten by Joel TanDirected by Tan Shou Chen (Singapore) 18 Aug 2023, Fri, 8pm19 Aug 2023, Sat, 3pm & 8pm20 Aug 2023, Sun, 3pm Singtel Waterfront Theatre at Esplanade An old playground in Ang Mo Kio is slated to be bulldozed. Three 20-something friends and a stranger gather to protest its demolition. What starts as…
Henry Purcell’s Dido (The Opera People)

The Opera People launchs a brand new series, Young Bards, a young professional artist development programme aimed at growing the performance capabilities of a new generation of singers through curated stage performances. For the inaugural edition of Young Bards, we present Dido – a new adaptation of Henry Purcell’s immortal opera Dido and Aeneas, directed…
ALCINA (The Opera People)

ALCINA by The Opera Peoplein Collaboration with Red Dot Baroque20 Aug 2021, 7:30pm & 22 Aug 2021, 5pm Wild Rice @ Funan The Opera People present a new adaptation of George Frideric Handel’s operatic masterpiece, Alcina. Stripped of her powers and confined to a cell, the sorceress Alcina is forced to relive the moments of her…

Mosaic: Reflecting on Special Places

We all have places that we hold dear. More than a decade later, I still don’t look at my late grandfather’s house in Serangoon whenever I drive past because the new owners have renovated it. It is tempting to look. But to keep the memory pristine, and because memory is defining, I make it a…
Mosaic: Writings

“Nostalgia is a seductive liar.” Full disclosure, I Chat-GPT-ed that quote, looking for one that could top Joel’s epigraph for this play (he quoted Arthur Yap). Thing is, the source and context didn’t match when I Googled for source and context. Who should I believe, Chat-GPT or Google? Truth is wile snake. It slithers and…
Sketches: Light

Sketch using Sound for the Theatre of Others Composition Workshop 2021.
Sketches: Sound

Sketch using Sound for the Theatre of Others Composition Workshop 2021.
Sketches: Time

Sketch using Time for the Theatre of Others Composition Workshop 2021.