ACSI Stage

ACSI Stage

Anglo-Chinese School Independent Stage is the school’s IB drama CCA and is made up of Year 5 and 6 students from the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. The club’s inaugural performance in 2007 of Peter Shaffer’s Black Comedy proved to be just the first of many outstanding productions, which range widely in genre and provenance and emphasise literary merit and the aesthetics of language. These include Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Kuo Pau Kun’s No Parking On Odd Days (reworked for an ensemble cast) and David Calcutt’s Salem (a youth version of the Crucible) among many others.

In 2023, the club produced ACS(I)’s first ever Shakespeare in the Park in the school’s outdoor amphitheatre, a full-length performance of As You Like It in the original language. This was quickly followed in April 2024 with a premiere of our student playwright Zackary Chong’s full length play about the role of art and friendship in Singapore’s national identity, How to Sell Your Art from the Grave, which also featured original works by IB Art students. To share their love of drama with the wider community, the club also conducts yearly VIA performances and workshops for primary school students in November.

Singapore versus Covid: The Show Must Go On

In 2020-2022, when circumstances from taking to the stage, the club found many new ways of performing in an online context. This includes the following montage of heartfelt performances of local poetry reflecting on the collective experience of the pandemic. We hope you enjoy the show!