Exciting news! - M1 Peer Pleasure Youth Theatre Festival returns with a new lease of life with Jean Ng onboard as our new Artistic Director from 2018 - 2021. Focusing on creating youth theatre with a social conscience, the festival promises a sustained and deeper commitment towards developing original devised works by young people on important social issues.

In 2018 - 19, the festival will focus on the issue of poverty in Singapore, with a series of workshop offerings in 2018, and performances and engagement programmes in 2019.

Festival Theme: Poverty

Poverty exists, but is often invisible. Are we aware of its presence in our lives – the low wage cleaner we brush past at lunchtime, the teenager who studies at the common corridor because home is a two-room flat shared with a family of five, the single mum who works two jobs yet struggles to put food on the table? Stories of individuals who overcome great odds to succeed may be inspiring, but does it make it fair? What is the face of poverty in Singapore? And after we see it, what do we do about it? Join us as we imagine change together at the M1 Peer Pleasure Youth Theatre Festival.

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

Artistic Director
Jean Ng

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