W!LD RICE was founded in 2000 by Ivan Heng and is recognised as one of Singapore’s leading professional theatre companies.
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The company takes its inspiration from the multicultural societies that make up Singapore and modern Asia, celebrating their diverse cultures and performance styles.
W!LD RICE’s creative work is first and foremost a celebration of Singapore talent. By producing and touring glocal productions that are distinctively local in flavour and yet universal in vision and concerns, the company creates shared experiences for audiences in Singapore and around the World.
W!LD RICE’s programming for the main stage includes:
The company also makes contributions to the wider community through its following divisions:
W!LD RICE is committed to touring its shows internationally to raise the profile of Singapore theatre, to create an international awareness of its unique productions, and to engage its artists and collaborators in creative dialogues with the international arts community. Its distinctively Singaporean productions have won acclaim at major international arts festivals in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Hong Kong and Malaysia.
In 2006, W!ld Rice was the principal inaugurator of the first Singapore Theatre Festival, held in August, a biannual month-long festival of Singapore-created plays. Joining W!ld Rice in the Festival were TheatreWworks, Spell #7, Dramabox and The Theatre Practice.
Non-theatre related activists who spoke at the forums included gay activist Alex Au and Workers' Party of Singapore Chair Sylvia Lim.
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