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The Necessary Stage is a non-profit theatre company with charity status in Singapore. Formed in 1987 by current Artistic Director Alvin Tan, The Necessary Stage has a mission to create challenging, indigenous and innovative theatre that touches the heart and mind. The Necessary Stage is a recipient of the National Arts Council's Major Grant FY2014-2016, and is also the organiser of the annual M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. It is currently located at the Marine Parade Community Building. ==Main season== For its main season, The Necessary Stage produces an average of four plays a year at its Black Box and at other venues. These include plays for the Singapore Arts Festival. The plays are original, mostly devised pieces created in a collaborative process that is based on research, improvisation before scripting, and input from all members of the production. This process has produced many important works which were not only popular successes but also critically acclaimed, including: * Boxing Day: The Tsunami Project'' (2005), * ''Top Or Bottom'' (2004), * ''Sing Song'' (2004), * ''koan'' (2003), * ''BOTE: The Beginning Of the End'' (2002), * ''godeatgod'' (2002 & 2004), * ''Close – in my face'' (2002), * ''ABUSE SUXXX!!!'' (2001), * ''Completely With/Out Character'' (1999), * ''Pillars'' (1998), * ''Rosnah'' (1995, 1996, 1997 & 2006), * ''Off Centre'' (1993 & 2007) * ''Fundamentally Happy'' (2006 & 2007), * ''Still Building'' (1993) * ''Good People'' (2007) * ''Gemuk Girls'' (2008 & 2013) * "_____ Can Change" (2010) * ''Those Who Can't, Teach'' (2010) * ''Model Citizens'' (2010 & 2011) * ''Balek Kampong'' (2011) * ''Singapore'' (2011 & 2012) * ''Crossings'' (2012) * ''October'' (2012) * ''Mobile 2: Flat Cities'' (2013) * ''Best Of'' (2013 & 2014) * ''Poor Thing'' (2014) * ''Gitanjali (feel the earth move )'' (2014) * ''Pioneer (Girls) Generation'' (2015) The Necessary Stage's international collaboration, ''Separation 40'', was produced with Malaysian theatre company Dramalab, and was staged at the Esplanade as part of its Theatre Studio Season, and at Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre. In June 2006, The Necessary Stage presented ''Mobile'', a creative collaboration involving talents from Japan, The Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, as part of the Singapore Arts Festival. ''Mobile'' also toured to Kuala Lumpur following its world premiere in Singapore for a 3-day run at The Actors Studio in Bangsar, as well at to Setagaya Public Theatres in Tokyo in March 2007. 2007 sees The Necessary Stage celebrating its 20th anniversary. As part of its celebration, the company staged two works, the first being a seminal piece first staged in 1993, ''Off Centre''. This production was presented at Esplanade Theatre Studio as part of The Studios Season in May 2007 and received accolades and warm responses from the audience and press. The play has been selected by the Ministry of Education (Singapore) as part of the GCE 'O' and 'N' level literature syllabus from 2007 onwards. In November 2007, The Necessary Stage presented another a brand new play that dealt with the issue of living, dying and the pain in between. ''Good People'' looks at the relationship between 3 people - Miguel, the new Medical Director trying to run a tight ship; Yati, a jaded nurse making the best of a ‘dead-end’ job; and Radha, the terminally-ill patient addicted to marijuana to relieve her pain. Moving, humorous and evocative, ''Good People'' looks at urgent contemporary issues through the test of personal relationships. The play received critical acclaim and popular acclaim in Singapore, and traveled to Kuala Lumpur in May 2008. It was nominated in 7 categories of the 2008 Life! Theatre Awards and won the Best Original Script award. In October/November 2008, The Necessary Stage staged ''Gemuk Girls'', a bold and darkly humorous look at family politics and the politics of the day. ''Gemuk Girls'' was a three-hander, featuring a mother-daughter duo Kartini (a loud and overbearing hippie mother) and Juliana (a straitlaced young woman on the threshold of entering politics). One day, they receive shocking news about Kartini's father who had been arrested and detained in the 1960s. The play dealt with the controversial issue of ex-political detainees and detention without trial, but went beyond the political realm to look at how it impacted personal and family life and history. It received critical acclaim from various presses, and toured to Kuala Lumpur in December 2008. ''Gemuk Girls'' also swept the Best Script, Production of the Year and Best Actor (for Najib Soiman's portrayal of the ex-political detainee) at the 2009 Life! Theatre Awards. It was successfully restaged with the original cast in November 2011 with a sold-out run. ''October'' was a main season production staged by The Necessary Stage in 2012, and it was a re-working of the company's previous work of the same title in 1996. It looks at elderly residents of a precinct undergoing upgrading, and their relationship with one another and a young property agent eager to have them sell their homes. In 2013, The Necessary Stage embarked on an exciting intercultural production entitled ''Mobile 2: Flat Cities''. On the cusp of Japan's surrender during World War II, a Japanese general suffers a stroke and is tended to by a Malay gardener. As they spar, having heated debates about the war, the present is revealed: a Japanese man in a relationship with an Indian woman in Kuala Lumpur; his ex-wife coming to grips with an astrologer's predictions; their son, studying in the United States and confronted by his classmates about Japan's past. A multilingual production featuring artists from Singapore, Malaysia and Japan, ''Mobile II: Flat Cities'' cast the spotlight on stories of personal, social and universal struggles across Asian cities. It was well received and traveled to Kuala Lumpur for performances after the run in Singapore. The Necessary Stage explored the use of social media in theatre through ''Poor Thing'' in February 2014, a work that throws the spotlight on road rage in Singapore. The sold-out run of the production received rave reviews from all quarters. In the same year, the company created a challenging new intercultural and interdisciplinary production entitled ''Gitanjali (feel the earth move )'' in September 2014. Most recently in 2015, The Necessary Stage presented ''Pioneer (Girls) Generation'', featuring an intergenerational cast, with a plot revolving around a posh senior retirement home in Singapore. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Necessary Stage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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