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Esplanade Presents
10 – 19 Mar 2023
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Esplanade Forecourt Garden
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Note:
- There will be a pre-show workshop from 6pm to 6.30pm to create little noise-making puppets that will be used as part of the performance. We encourage you to bring along recyclable materials such as used water bottles, small containers, and items that could fit into them and make noise (such as buttons and paper clips!).
- Rattle King 2 performance will begin at 6.45pm starting from Esplanade Forecourt Garden.
Beep BEEEEEP!
Driiiiing Driiinnnggg!
VrooooooOOooooom!
Rattle King finds himself living in a city bustling with loud noises.
How does he deal with all the various sounds?
Can he stop all the hustle and bustle?
Will he be able to turn all that noise into music?
This March, the Rattle King returns to Esplanade once again in this participative promenade performance.
The journey starts at the Esplanade Forecourt Garden and continues to various venues in an outdoor procession.
What will the King and his marching-on followers discover in the process? Will he find what he’s looking for?
Join him and his jesters as they play, make music and rediscover the beauty of sounds on a musical journey of listening, learning and living with urban aural distractions.
The Rattle King was first commissioned by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Singapore for March On 2021. This year, Rattle King 2is brought to you by the original team in a pseudo-sequel.
Performers: Jodi Chan, Irsyad Dawood, Juni Goh, Neo Hai Bin Genevieve Tan
It is once again created by theatre director Danny Yeo, with a new soundtrack by composer Phang Kok Jun, and features a revival of 5-metre-tall giant puppet made by Oliver Chong.
Credit List:
Director/Co-Creator: Danny Yeo
Composer/Co-Creator: Phang Kok Jun
Playwrights: Jodi Chan, Neo Hai Bin, Danny Yeo
Puppet Designer: Oliver Chong
Lighting Designer: Gabriel Chan
Costume Designer: Tan Jia Hui
Performers: Jodi Chan, Irsyad Dawood, Juni Goh, Neo Hai Bin, Genevieve Tan
Puppet Trainer: Jo Kwek
Production Stage Manager: Tennie Su
Puppet Maintenance: Allister Towndrow
The pre-show workshop is conceptualised and executed by Tan Yin Hong Aileen, Razin Amsyar and facilitated by student volunteers from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), as part of their Industry Project module.
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Established in 1938, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) is Singapore’s pioneer arts institution. The academy is known for its rigorous and high-quality curriculum, innovative and practitioner-led teaching approach, diverse artistic creations and community outreach.
Includes workshop activity from 6pm to 6.30pm.
Performance begins at 6.45pm to 7.15pm
Danny Yeo
A veteran cross-media practitioner, Danny Yeo is a multi-hyphenate with three decades of rich experience in various fields and implants himself passionately in theatre directing, acting and creating. In recent years, he has been primarily developing site-specific immersive-interactive productions and has successfully incorporated music and design into participative performances where audience involvement becomes integral.
Danny has collaborated with Esplanade on numerous occasions, including shows in the Feed Your Imagination series featuring Chinese Chamber Music with Ding Yi Music Company (2015-2018), Child’s Play for Huayi (2017-2019), and The Rattle King (2021) specially conceptualized for March On.
Phang Kok Jun
Known to be a multifaceted composer, Phang Kok Jun’s music transcends the concert halls, with a repertoire that also includes theatre, film, and other forms of media. An award-winning composer both locally and internationally, Kok Jun is influenced by a wide variety of musical styles, and has been described as a composer who “comfortably melds Chinese, Western and popular idioms to excellent effect”. Interested in the unique relationship between music and storytelling, Kok Jun is constantly working with artists of various disciplines to discover new possibilities in music-making.
10 Mar 2023, Fri
6pm
6.45pm
11 Mar 2023, Sat
6pm
6.45pm
12 Mar 2023, Sun
6pm
6.45pm
17 Mar 2023, Fri
6pm
6.45pm
18 Mar 2023, Sat
6pm
6.45pm
19 Mar 2023, Sun
6pm
6.45pm
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