Loud Mouth Loving is a performance about the love we keep silent for one another. A public confession, it deals with how we are kept so separate from one another that we have kind of lost the ability to connect, this piece helps to bridge that and maybe overcome it.
This masked theatre performance is conceptualised by members of The Common Folk, a theatre company started by students of the NUS Theatre Studies Program. The play is a confessional of Singaporean stories that will be performed by an ensemble cast of 8. A work-in-progress showcase has been held at the Goodman Arts Centre in September 2013. A private showcase to local theatre practitioners is scheduled in February before being presented to the public at The Substation on 12th May 2013. Performers will be attend workshops on traditional masked theatre forms such as Noh, Topeng and Commedia Dell’arte. Loud Mouth Loving will be incorporating influences from these masked forms of theatre in the performance. The session aims to gather feedback about the impact of masks in the performance of confessional plays, and to discuss ways of appropriating traditional masked theatre in contemporary performance.
Performed at SDEA Theatre Arts Conference 2013 at The Play Den at The Arts House.
