Waiting for Audience
by Nelson Chia Nine Years Theatre Singapore International Festival of Arts 2025 SOTA Drama Centre, Singapore Natalie Hennedige's final year as SIFA Festival Director has been rich in classics. Not just classics, but classics reimagined. Orwell's Animal Farm performed with life-sized puppets. A stripped-down, wordless version of Shakespeare's Lear . And now this – an original Mandarin play that cleverly riffs on Beckett's absurdist masterpiece Waiting for Godot . Waiting for Audience was first presented by Nine Years Theatre as part of Tomorrow and Tomorrow , a works-in-progress showcase at last year's SIFA. Earning warm reviews, it was one of the only works that was commissioned for a full-scale production at this year's festival and is currently competing for the prestigious Teresa Pomodoro International Prize in Milan . Written by Nelson Chia and starring b oth himself and his wife Mia Chee, it's a warm, wacky and wistful ode to theatre and t...
