Theatre Companies
The following theatre companies have been active in staging plays which examine LGBT issues:
- The Necessary Stage. A major theatre company which produced Mardi Gras and Top or Bottom.
- It has existed for more than a decade, its history recently documented in the book Ask Not: The Necessary Stage in Singapore by social activists Dr. Tan Chong Kee and Tisa Ng.
- Action Theatre. Straits Times' Life! theatre award winner for gay-affirmative plays such as Autumn Tomyam, and producers of the movie Beautiful Boxer.
- Toy Factory Theatre Ensemble. A leading Chinese-English bilingual drama company and another Life! theatre award winner, tremendously and publicly gay-affirmative. It produced Bent, staged and translated Beautiful Thing, wrote the original script for White Sails Over Blue Blue Sea and East Side Story on the love between two ah beng gangsters. Its recent offerings were Porcelain by acclaimed Singaporean playwright Chay Yew and Spirits 'Yao Jing', a novel interpretation of Chinese opera. It provided assistance to Threesixzero Productions in its production of a well-balanced documentary for MediaCorp TV on Channel U entitled 'Do homosexuals have space for their activities?' as part of the 'Very Penetrating Insight' series in 2005.
- The Fun Stage . Produced the Lovers' Words in 2004, examining gay rights and "Existence" in 2003.
- W!LD RICE, with Artistic Director Ivan Heng and Associate Artistic Director Glen Goei.
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