Draft:Toy Factory Productions

  • Comment: As mentioned previously by a different editor, this needs more coverage about Toy Factory themselves. The The Straits Times article is a perfect example, needs one or two more like that to pass WP:GNG. Ortizesp (talk) 23:05, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
  • Comment: The only source providing significant coverage is The Straits Times. More than one publication needs to be cited to establish notability. voorts (talk/contributions) 23:20, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Toy Factory Productions (formerly known as Toy Factory Theatre Ensemble) is a Singaporean non-profit professional theatre company founded in 1990.[1] The company was first located in the now demolished Telok Ayer Performing Arts Centre at Cecil Street before moving to its current shophouse space at 15A and 17A Smith Street in 2000. In 2018, the company renamed their second shophouse space at 17A Smith Street to NOWplaying@17.

The company is founded and led by Chief Artistic Director Goh Boon Teck.

Main stage edit

Toy Factory Productions’ main stage repertoire comprises mainly of English and Mandarin theatre productions. The company has produced plays and musicals at performing arts venues in Singapore and internationally.

Past productions edit

Year Title Ref
1990 The Bull Over The Rainbow
1991 I Have A Date With Spring
Dragon Quest
Redear
1992 Posteterne
Playback
Surround
1993 Osean
Hugged The Tree
1994 TiTouDao [2]
a-the-bird dance / inscribing my own inscription
Dragon Dance
One Wish from Tree God
1995 Four and a Half Rebels
Purple
I Have A Date With Spring
1996 K
Touch The Moon
Zero O Clock
1997 Comedy of Mistakes
1998 Storm
Purple
Mama Looking For Her Cat
1999 Fanshen
Guys & Dolls
I Have A Date With Spring
Made in KK
Under
Lovepuke
2000 A Tinted Edge
Gone With That Thing
TiTouDao
Marcello’s New Clothes
White Sails Over The Blue Sea
Oleanna
The Story of Redhill
2001 The Eastern Line On My Palm
Shopping & F***ing
The Seventh Drawer
A Right Ritual
2002 A Doll’s House
Beautiful Thing
Chessmaster
Fireface
K
The Morning People
Epitaph of the whales / Accidental Death of An Anarchist
2003 Bent
Land of Joy
Mad Phoenix
Prism [3] [4]
2004 East Side Story
Mergers and Accusations
24 Pieties
2005 10 Brothers
Dangerous Liaisons
Porcelain
Spirits
Spring Singing
2006 Longhouse
Army Daze [5]
Cabaret
2007 251
Big Fool Lee [6]
TiTouDao
2008 First Light
Superhero Diaries
Shanghai Blues
2009 Sleepless Town
The Crab Flower Club
The Peranakan Ball
2010 Maha Moggallana
To Kill A Mockingbird
December Rains [7] [8]
White Soliloquy
The Crab Flower Club (Beijing) [9] [10] [11]
2011 881
Deciphering of Peach Garden Oath
EQUUS
2012 K (Shanghai Tour) [12] [13]
Purple
Tin Tan and His Tembusu Tree
2013 The Crucible
The Penis Society
Glass Anatomy [14]
2014 Romeo & Juliet
Like! Musical
Glass Anatomy 搭错车 (Shanghai) [15] [16]
Innamorati 1
2015 TiTouDao [17]
Upstage [18]
White Soliloquy
Fear of Writing & Machine
December Rains [19]
2016 Kumarajiva
Innamorti 2
GRIND [20]
2017 Prism [21]
The Transition Room
Innamorati 1 (Beijing) [22] [23]
The Wright Stuff: Permanence; Chicken Curry; Sejarah-Ku; A Piece Of Cake [24]
Songs of Guidance
2018 Too Many Cooks
Sometime Moon [25]
A Dream Under the Southern Bough: The Beginning
Masters of Comedy
Here and Beyond [26]
Oedipus [27]
Watching
2019 The Transition Room [28]
A Silent Hour: Buskers of Singapore
A Dream Under the Southern Bough: Reverie [29]
The Wright Stuff 2: Permanence; Ashes, Ashes; Random Access Memory; The Puppet King
2020 Toy 30 Event
7 Sages of the Bamboo Grove
Old Songs of Redhill Market
Poetry under the Southern Bough
Direct Entry - Still Sailing
SIFA Animation - Tang Xianzu
2021 All The World Is One's Stage
Masters of Comedy 2
A Dream Under The Southern Bough: Existence
Old Songs Of Redhill Market
The Wright Stuff Festival 3: The Time Machine; Lion; SKIN
2022 Roar Talents
The Crab Flower Club [30] [31]
Kwa Geok Choo - Singapore & The Story of Mrs Lee Kuan Yew [32] [33]
For My Highness [34]
2023 Quest - The White Hare
Ignite The Sun
The Wright Stuff Festival 4: The Thieves; Anthropocene; The Prisoner

References edit

  1. ^ "Toy Factory turns 25 with aim to focus on original works". The Straits Times. 16 June 2015. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Titoudao (1994) SG Theatre Archive". Centre 42. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Speech by Minister Lee Boon Yang, at The Opening Dinner Of The 2nd World Summit On Arts & Culture , 24 November 2003, 7.30 pm". National Archives Singapore. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  4. ^ "PRISM (2003) | SG Theatre Archive". www.centre42.sg. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  5. ^ "Army Daze (1987)". T:>Works. 25 November 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  6. ^ "Big Fool Lee (2007) SG Theatre Archive". Centre 42. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  7. ^ "December Rains (2010) SG Theatre Archive". Centre 42. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  8. ^ Kolesnikov-Jessop, Sonia (24 May 2010). "In Singapore, Musical Theater That Prefers Its Own Local Flavor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  9. ^ "'Crab Flower Club' staged in Beijing - China.org.cn". www.china.org.cn. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  10. ^ "新加坡 TOY肥料厂剧团《咏蟹花》-搜狐娱乐". yule.sohu.com. 19 October 2010. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  11. ^ "新加坡名剧《咏蟹花》10月亮相京城舞台_影音娱乐_新浪网". ent.sina.com.cn. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  12. ^ "现代戏剧谷2012壹戏剧市民剧场-国际五城市民戏剧秀预告". 上海市静安区人民政府. 19 April 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
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  14. ^ "Glass Anatomy: The Musical (2013) SG Theatre Archive". Centre 42. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  15. ^ "Singapore's Toy Factory Presents "Glass Anatomy the Musical" at the Original Mandarin Music Festival in Shanghai, 28 to 30 March 2014". Ministry of Foreign Affairs Singapore. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  16. ^ "音乐剧《搭错车》_技点网". m.jidianwang.com. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  17. ^ "S'pore theatre: Staging a comeback". TODAY. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  18. ^ Tan, Corrie (16 June 2015). "A look back at Singapore Mandarin theatre in Toy Factory's latest work". The Straits Times. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  19. ^ Lim, Gary (29 June 2015). "Toy Factory Productions presents December Rains 雨季 - City Nomads". City Nomads. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  20. ^ "Toy Factory goes to Grind". TODAY. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  21. ^ Raja, Akanksha (14 March 2017). "Toy Factory's "Prism" refracts social reality". ArtsEquator. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  22. ^ "新加坡华语音乐剧《唯一》追逐音乐梦想的热血故事". www.sohu.com. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  23. ^ "《唯二》变《唯一》 TOY肥料厂首登北京春天舞台 | 联合早报". www.zaobao.com.sg (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  24. ^ Bakchormeeboy (27 July 2017). "Preview: The Wright Stuff by Toy Factory". Bakchormeeboy. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  25. ^ "《有时月光》用闽南唱出会馆兴衰史 | 联合早报". www.zaobao.com.sg (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  26. ^ "Here and Beyond: 12 Stories". Ethos Books. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  27. ^ Correspondent, Akshita NandaArts (4 September 2018). "Shophouse theatre for the Instagram generation". The Straits Times. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  28. ^ "Toy Factory's The Transition Room Questions the Confines of Space". Popspoken. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  29. ^ Nanda, Akshita (3 June 2019). "Kun opera for everybody". The Straits Times. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  30. ^ Yiming, Wang (16 June 2023). "Flowers in concrete: Keeping traditional Chinese opera alive in Singapore , Culture News - ThinkChina". www.thinkchina.sg. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
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  32. ^ "Who was Kwa Geok Choo, really?". L'Officiel Singapore. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  33. ^ Hashimi, Hashirin Nurin. "Playwright Ovidia Yu on Why Kwa Geok Choo's Story Deserves to Be Told". Tatler Asia. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  34. ^ "Toy肥料厂第二季"新导体" 新晋导演法扎呈献《仙欲》 | 联合早报". www.zaobao.com.sg (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved 9 November 2023.