Refunction 2022

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Chickens is a series of interrelated vignettes - dramatic, comedic, absurd, musical - exploring the relationship between humans and animals, especially with animals we farm for food. What does it mean for us to live lives that are entangled with the lives of others, for better or worse? This is an attempt to look closer at these entanglements, specifically with (but not limited to) the chicken. The ways in which we consume animal life; the ways in which they are both familiar and strange; and, how we relate to them through rituals of sacrifice and murder, as well as tenderness and play.

Duration: Approx. 70 minutes
Suggested audience: 16 years and above
Max. audience: 70 people (registration required)

© Bikram Ghosh Bikram Ghosh is a theatre-maker and teacher. His practice as a performer is rooted in mindfulness and play, seeking to broaden the experience of physical and mental presence, and create circumstances for ‘flow’. As a theatre-maker, his approach is based on defamiliarizing the mundane and destabilising the terms of storytelling; embracing an essentialist appearance, using only the means and materials at hand.
© Bernie Ng Uma Katju is an actor and theatre practitioner. As a theatre-maker she is interested in devised and collaborative processes, improvisation and play; and in developing a multidisciplinary performance practice. Her works include The Spider/Woman (2022), Circling.Pieces and Mrichchhakatika (2020). A graduate of ITI, Singapore, she continues to study traditional theatres and dance to draw lessons for performer training and theatre-making.