Featuring
Candice de Rozario, Pierre Goh, Melissa Lee, Audrey Luo,
Alex Ng, Judy Ngo, Tan Shou Chen and Terence Tan

Conceived and directed by Jonathan Lim

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POETIC LICENCE is a vividly-dramatised collection of poems of love, desire, despair and Dettol in our urban lives. Meet gossipy neighbors, lovers on the brink, pillow-talking parents, dreamers, army boys, love goddesses and dead queens as STAGES' young and spunky cast brings poetry to throbbing life.

I claim the right to read, I claim the right to bleed, I claim the right to poetry in word and deed, I claim the right to sound, the right to be unbound, Poetry for people plus the other way round.

This highly-theatrical and sensual performance features double-edged poetry by local writers Alfian Sa'at, Paul Tan, Felix Cheong, Leong Liew Geok, Alvin Pang, Yong Shu Hoong and others.

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So whether you're a poet in private, an occasional poetry-reader, or a total verse-virgin, POETIC LICENCE will turn words to flesh in unforgettable new ways!

Also featuring:

HENTAK KAKI: Green Days of Our Lives

In Singapore, if you're not a soldier, you're at least the child of one, married to one or perhaps someday, parent of one. But what is NS all about? Is it pure hell or are there moments of heaven? And what lies in between?

Send me to a war. Anything out of this blind end. Give me real bullets
and fat grenades to blast this routine and you off the face of this story.

Let our young men in jungle-green take you on a bittersweet journey through National Service… from enlistment to passing out, via BMT, trench-digging, stand-by-bed and route-marching… these provocative dramatisations of nostalgic yet ironic army poems by Kirpal Singh, Alfian Sa'at, Cyril Wong, Robert Yeo, Paul Tan and others ask what it really means to serve your nation.

So these our boys in jungle green
Shall secure our home.
Will and muscle shall grow on bone
And young men be brave men.

HENTAK KAKI was first performed in the 2004 Arts Festival Late Night Series, commissioned by the National Arts Council.

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