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Disability

How do differently-abled people live in Singapore?

How do we walk alongside each other?

How do we belong?

Highlights

Photos of different body parts and full bodies of the cast in action have been made into a collage.
Photos by Bob Lee, The Fat Farmer

What If

Frozen. Broken. Poof!   Tuesday 4 August
0 dB   Saturday 8 August
Fetching Sanctuary   Tuesday 11 August
Stained   Saturday 15 August
8pm (GMT +8:00)
Zoom

A new media experience co-created by a multidisciplinary group of performers, designers and directors. Amid a pandemic, where time and space are warped, and how we exist and connect feels alienating, What If explores being human.

Presenting to you 4 original works that will each be accompanied by a short animation. Audience participation is welcomed in all shows.

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Youths from Tanjong Katong Girls School
Photo by Asnur Asman

A staged reading of If These Wheels Could Speak… with live post-show dialogues

Premieres on Wednesday 5 August
8pm (GMT +8:00)
Facebook Live

Get to know the life and wishes of a young girl living with cerebral palsy, devised and performed by youths from Tanjong Katong Girls' School.

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Youths from Dunman High School
Photo by Asnur Asman

A staged reading of The Other People with live post-show dialogues

Premieres on Wednesday 12 August
8pm (GMT +8:00)
Facebook Live

An original play that draws on first-hand accounts of parents and siblings of persons with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, devised and performed by youths from Dunman High School.

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Youths from Republic Polytechnic
 

Riley's Rain

Premieres on Friday 7 August
4.30pm (GMT +8:00)
YouTube

A sensory story-telling experience designed for audiences with autism spectrum disorder and sensory sensitivities, through a video paired with a craft kit.

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About The Festival

How do differently-abled people live in Singapore?
Who and where are they? Where are their voices and stories in our everyday?

In a country that prizes efficiency, productivity and material success, can people with disabilities have a place in our economy, schools and community?
Can we create space for each other?
Can we ask uncomfortable questions?
Can we be politically incorrect?
Can we overcome our fears and anxieties?
Can we support each other?

M1 Peer Pleasure is an annual youth theatre festival with a social conscience. It is a unique platform that mentors youths aged 13-25 in the craft of theatre-making, providing opportunities for them to collaborate with peers to stage productions with important social issues, and performed for all ages.

Presented by ArtsWok Collaborative
In Collaboration with Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

Artistic Director
Jean Ng

Can we think out of the box?

Our Process

Touring with Dignity Kitchen's founder Koh Seng Choon

First Encounter

2 February 2019

All aboard the youths from Dunman High School and Tanjong Katong Girls' School! We gathered at Dignity Kitchen, Singapore's first hawker training centre for people with disabilities and the disadvantaged.

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Mapping What If part 1 photo

Mapping 'What If' – Walking, Stumbling, Reorienting, Accompanying

Embedded writer Corrie Tan, reflects on the position of What If and its part in the discourse about disability and accessibility in Singapore's arts scene. She proceeds to share her observations of the devising process, and how the Covid-19 pandemic has shaped the work, in this 3-part series.

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Warming up to What If photo

Warming Up to What If - Physicality and Vocabularies of Movement

How may warm-ups be used to create a safe, inclusive space in theatre? Embedded writer Ariane Vanco, explores director Jing Hong’s psychophysical approach to warm-ups, and how it prepares What If's diverse team including its cast with disabilities for rehearsals.

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