The Magic Flower: An Example of a Theatre in Education Project in Singapore
Authors
Soo Pong Chua
Abstract
Nanyang Girls' High School has, since 1986, revitalized its ""Theatre in Education' programme, providing students with opportunities to attend drama workshops, specially arranged series of drama lectures and more importantly to present stage plays. In the last five years, the school has produced locally written plays (Love Under the Willows by Felix Chia, When the Sea Boils by Chua Soo Pong) as well as eastern classics Dream of the Red Chamber and Twilight Crane and Bertolt Brecht's The Good Woman of Sichuan. The School has also chosen to present an adaptation of an Indonesian epic Princess Jasmine, in both Chinese and English
