Playwrights Galore (2021)

As we bid goodbye to 2021, here's the annual list of playwrights from whom I've seen at least three plays in performance. Been keeping track of this for a whole decade now and while it's hardly been a bumper year of new theatre, it's great to see the list growing. 

Delighted to see the entry of local playwrights Thomas Lim and Ken Kwek while Haresh Sharma is now tied with the Bard himself in terms of the number of plays I've seen! 

William Shakespeare (24)

- Twelfth Night (x4)
- Romeo & Juliet (x4)
- Macbeth (x4)
- The Taming of the Shrew (x3)
- The Tempest (x3)
- Hamlet (x3)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (x3)
- Othello (x2)
- King Lear (x2) 
- Richard III (x2)
- Julius Caesar (x2)
- Much Ado About Nothing (x2)
- Coriolanus
- The Winter's Tale
- The Merchant of Venice
- Henry VI Part I
- Henry VI Part II
- Henry VI Part III
- Henry IV Part I
- Henry IV Part II
- Henry V
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- The Comedy of Errors
- As You Like It

Haresh Sharma (24)
- Off Centre (x2)
- Mixed Blessings
- What Big Bombs You Have!!!
- Mobile
- Gemuk Girls
- godeatgod
- Best Of
- Poor Thing
- Pioneer (Girls) Generation
- Ghost Writer
- Best Of (His Story)
- Actor, Forty
- Those Who Can't, Teach
- Fundamentally Happy
- This Chord and Others
- Hope
- Tropicana the Musical
- Sanctuary
- Underclass
- Civilised
- Acting Mad

- Kebaya Homies

- The Year of No Return

- _Can Change

Alfian Sa'at (13)
- Cooling Off Day (x2)
- Homesick
- Dreamplay: Asian Boys Vol. 1
- Landmarks: Asian Boys Vol. 2
- Hansel & Gretel
- Cook a Pot of Curry
- Geng Rebut Cabinet
- Hotel
- An Actress Prepares
- Mama White Snake
- The Insiders
- Tiger of Malaya
- Merdeka

Alan Ayckbourn (11)
- Absurd Person Singular
- Table Manners
- Living Together
- Round and Round the Garden
- Bedroom Farce
- Taking Steps
- Season's Greetings
- Snake in the Grass
- Life of Riley
- Relatively Speaking
- A Small Family Business

Chong Tze Chien (10)
- Rant & Rave (x2)
- Real Men, Fake Orgasms
- Spoilt
- Turn by Turn We Turn
- Starring Hitler as Jekyll and Hyde
- Between the Lines: Rant and Rave II 
- Poop!
- Framed, by Adolf

- Murder at Mandai Camp

- OIWA: The Ghost of Yotsuya

Nabilah Said (7)
- Drip

- yesterday it rained salt...
- Angkat: a Definitive, Alternative, Reclaimed Narrative of a Native
- Heavy Weight

- Havoc Girls and Kamikaze Boys

- Where Are You?

- (un)becoming

Noel Coward (5)
- Present Laughter
- Blithe Spirit
- Private Lives
- Design for Living
- Hay Fever

Irfan Kasban (5)
- 94:05 (x2)
- Genap 40
- W.C.
- Tahan
- Angkat

Huzir Sulaiman (5)
- Occupation
- Atomic Jaya
- The Weight of Silk on Skin
- The Last Bull: A Life in Flamenco
- Displaced Persons Welcome Dinner

Harold Pinter (4)
- The Lover (x2)
- The Dumb Waiter
- The Collection
- Betrayal

Neil Simon (4)
- The Prisoner of Second Avenue (x2)
- The Odd Couple (female version)
- Rumors
- Lost in Yonkers

 Tom Stoppard (4)
- Rock 'n' Roll
- Arcadia
- The Real Thing
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Arther Miller (4)
- The Man Who Had All the Luck
- The Crucible
- All My Sons
- Death of a Salesman

Tennessee Williams (4)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- The Glass Menagerie
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Sweet Bird of Youth

Zizi Azah (4)
- The Gunpowder Trail
- Paradise
- Yusof
- How Did the Cat Get So Fat?

Joel Tan (4)
- Jack and the Bean-Sprout
- The Way We Go
- Tango

- Cafe

Anton Chekhov (4)
- The Seagull
- Ivanov
- The Cherry Orchard

- Three Sisters

David Mamet (3)
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- Speed-the-Plow
- November

Peter Shaffer (3)
- Black Comedy
- White Lies
- Equus

Henrik Ibsen (3)
- An Enemy of the People (x3)
- Hedda Gabler
- The Master Builder

Kuo Pao Kun (3)
- The Coffin is Too Big for the Hole
- Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral
- The Spirits Play

Faith Ng (3)
- For Better or For Worse
- Normal
- Whale Fall

Jean Tay (3)

- Boom

- The Cemetery, Dusk

- Tiny Country

Jo Tan (3)

- Forked

- King

- A Bit (part of Two Songs and a Story)

Thomas Lim (3)

- Supervision

- Grandmother Tongue

- Straight Acting

Ken Kwek (3)

- Apocalypse: Live

- This Is What Happens to Pretty Girls

- The Commission

Florian Zeller (3)

- The Father

- The Son

- The Mother