Plays
Kee Thuan Chye has written, directed, and acted in numerous plays, including but not limited to:
| Year | Title | Role | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Swordfish + Concubine: The Fall of Singapura |
Writer | Directed by Jonathan Lim, Young 'n' Wild, Singapore |
| The Baling Talks | Actor (as Chin Peng) |
Played at the Singapore Arts Festival for Five Arts Centre | |
| 2008 | The Swordfish, Then the Concubine | Writer | Directed by Ivan Heng, premiered as the opening play of the Singapore Theatre Festival 2008, organized by Wild Rice Productions. |
| 2006 | The Swordfish, Then the Concubine | Writer | The play made it to the Top 5 out of over 600 entries to the International Playwriting Festival, organized by the Warehouse Theatre in Croydon, United Kingdom, with excerpts presented at the festival in November 2006 |
| 2005 | The Big Purge | Writer | Selected for Typhoon 4, a playreading festival organized by the Yellow Earth Theatre, held in Soho Theatre, London |
| 2002 | Beautifully Read | Actor | A performance sponsored by the U.S. Embassy, directed by Karin delaPena, Artistic Director of Speaking of Stories, based in Santa Barbara, California |
| 1994 | We Could **** You Mr. Birch | Writer-cum-director | Performed for two seasons in June and December 1994. The play was invited to the Festival of Asian Performing Arts in Singapore in 1995 (performances on 5–6 June at the World Trade Centre Auditorium). |
| 1993 | The Birch and the Rod | Director | A play written by K.S. Maniam, premiering at the Australasian Drama Studies Association Conference in Perth, Western Australia |
| 1992 | Macbeth | Director | A Shakespearean play |
| 1990 | Gulls | Lead actor | Directed by Robert Hewett |
| The Proposal | Actor (as Chubukhov) |
Play written by Anton Chekhov | |
| 1989 | Death of a Salesman | Actor (as Willy Loman) | Play written by American playwright Arthur Miller |
| 1988 | The Big Purge | Writer | Selected for Typhoon 4, a playreading festival organized by Yellow Earth Theatre and held in Soho Theatre, London |
| 1987 | Anak Tanjung | Actor (as Ah Heng) |
A Malay play written by Noordin Hassan |
| 1986 | The Coffin Is Too Big for the Hole | Actor (one-man performance) | Play written by Kuo Pao Kun |
| 1985 | 1984 Here and Now | Writer | Staged in 1985 by Five Arts Centre, directed by Krishen Jit |
| Yap Ah Loy - The Play | Actor (various roles) |
Play written by Chin San Sooi | |
| 1984 | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Actor (as Jamie Tyrone) |
Play written by Eugene O'Neill |
| 1981 | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Actor (as Claudius) |
Play written by Tom Stoppard |
| 1977 | Eyeballs, Leper, and a Very Dead Spider | Writer-cum-director | - |
| Antigone | Actor (as Creon) |
Play written by Jean Anouilh | |
| 1974 | Oh, But I Don't Want To Go, Oh, But I Have To... | Writer-cum-director | - |
| The Situation of the Man who Stabbed a Dummy or a Woman and was Disarmed by the Members of the Club for a Reason Yet Obscure, If There Was One | Writer-cum-director | - | |
| 1973 | An Old Man Died Today | Writer-cum-director | - |
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