Be Our Underwire: Translating Pretty Butch needs your support!

How Your Donation Makes a Difference

$20

Training Bra: Thank you for your support! Your contribution will ensure that actors are paid fairly for each hour of rehearsal!

$100

Sports Bra: Game on! Your contribution will help pay for printing and installation materials for our reading at the Taipei Arts Festival 2018!

$500

Push-up Bra: Thanks for the lift! Your contribution helps the Singaporean creative team pay for our return flights on a budget airline!

$1,000

Maximizer Bra: You raised us up! Your contribution will ensure that our Singapore artists are paid a fair wage and go towards ensuring the sustainability of our local theatre community!

Other amount

Convertible Bra: Any amount you contribute will help us in a variety of ways, ranging from covering production costs to ensuring our safety as we bring this work to an international audience!

About Campaign

ends 12 Aug 2018, 11:59 PM

"Pretty Butch" is a play about masculine people. Featuring 5 different characters who are neither manly or womanly enough, it takes a look at the pressures of society's gender expectations on everyday people. After a sold-out run at the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2017, Playwright & Director Tan Liting will now further develop this play, taking the discussion of gender identity beyond the cultural context of Singapore.

"Translating Pretty Butch" is her current project endeavoring to bring the play to a different audience through translation & re-conceptualization. For its first iteration, the play is translated into mandarin & performed by Taiwanese actors. Documentary photographer Charmaine Poh will aim to capture feminine masculinity in Taiwan as a response to Liting's writing. This installation-play hopes to challenge gender perceptions through the interaction of visual art & theatre.

"Translating Pretty Butch" will be presented at Taipei Arts Festival on 11-12 Aug'18 as part of Producer List, a program focusing on overseas work.

Bringing the work overseas is not easy. We are operating on a thin budget of $13,400 & are still $5,000 short. Money raised through this campaign pays for the Singaporean team's travel & production cost to realise its first Mandarin staging. Thereafter, the play will be performed by a local cast in SG.

Thank you for being our underwire! Your support & positivity will help us bring Pretty Butch to the world!

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About the Charity

Centre 42 is a theatre development space established in 2014. We are committed to the creation, documentation and promotion of text-based works for the Singapore stage. Occupying a pre-war bungalow along Waterloo Street, we have made this blue house a home for independent artists and collectives; a safe space to trial and create new works; a repository of our local theatre history and resources. The Centre's objectives are: 1.To nurture talent and incubate content, particularly in the area of text-based works and playwriting; 2.To build public awareness and appreciation for Singapore theatre; and 3.To be a focal point for research, documentation and critical discourse on the development of Singapore theatre.