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Message from our Artistic Director
我们讲故事，是为了要对存在已久的假设提出质疑，是为了要从让人不快的问题中寻求解答，也是为了要搞懂这个不断变化的世界。新的故事需要反映新的现实，尽管经过了几个世代的交替，实践剧场依然致力于为艺术工作者和观众们提供这样一个讲故事的空间。
什么是家？敏宝在首度自编自演的长篇独角戏中，试图去挖掘普世而常见的挣扎，尝试在家庭关系、个人情感和客观环境的复杂网络中，找寻出路。过去几年，我们这群艺术创作者就跟这个故事一样，必须要去找到自己和“家”（剧场）的关系，还有我们对它的理解。
2021年8月，《我以为家》的前身作品在实践剧场《数少当赢》系列首度登台，当时是每场仅容纳8名观众的小规模作品。从最初的剧本构想，到实际上台演出，敏宝的作品在经过一段漫长（也充满变动的）旅程后，终于走进了黑箱剧场。
经过重新编排创作，这部“全新”的作品不只让我们看到本地华语剧场新生代创作者的崛起，也展现实践剧场在过去几年，以无惧的探索精神持续培育艺术人才的使命。
作为实践剧场近三年后回归实体剧场公开演出的第一部作品，《我以为家》别具意义。未来的剧场会是怎么样子？我们应该说什么故事？让我们一起去寻找答案。
欢迎回家。
We tell stories to question long-held assumptions; to find answers to uncomfortable questions; to make sense of a changing world. New realities need to be reflected in new stories, and for generations, Practice has offered artists and audiences a place to do just that.
What is home? Mun Poh’s debut script taps into a universal struggle to reconcile this complex web of relationships, emotions and circumstances. Like the story itself, the past three years have forced artmakers to find our own understanding and relationship to our home: the theatre.
almost home was first staged during the pandemic as an intimate 8-audience performance, as part of Practice’s It’s Not About The Numbers series in August 2021. The end of a long (and eventful) journey from script to stage, it has now been reworked and reimagined for the black box.
This new staging not only marks the emergence of a new voice in the Mandarin literary scene, it stands as a commitment to continue building upon the foundations of our artistic explorations from the past few years.
It is especially fitting then that almost home marks Practice’s return to public in-person productions for the first time in three years. What will theatre look like in the future? What stories should we tell? Let’s find out together.
Welcome home.
郭践红 Kuo Jian Hong 实践剧场艺术总监 Artistic Director of The Theatre Practice
Photo by Tuckys Photography
#MusicForAJourneyHome
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你“以为”的家，是什么样子？说到家，你会想到哪首歌？
What does "home" sound like to you?
Synopsis
“老豆，我返来啦。”
离家325公里的距离，该怎么回？ 多种海陆空配套，全看你口袋有多深
⋯⋯但讲真的，我可不可以不想回家？
出生在马来西亚吉隆坡的吴敏宝，在18岁时前往新加坡开启另一段18年的时光（日子陆续增加中）。离家18年必经的返家之旅，也成为她自我检视的必经之路。以质朴的笔调描绘返家的日常，结合一人分饰多角的表演，通过独角戏《我以为家》，提出她对“何以为家”、“无以为家”的忧虑和迷惘。
取材自个人经历，《我以为家》是剧场工作者吴敏宝自编自演的戏剧作品，其前身作品《女儿》，曾于2021年实践剧场《数少当赢》系列演出。除了延续先前合作，由剧场导演蔡德耀执导；这次也邀请到文字工作者梁海彬担任戏剧研创，期待能为新旧观众创造完全不同的演出体验。
If home is where the heart is, what do you do when your heart says,
“Actually… Is it ok if I don't want to go home?”
Kuala Lumpur-born, Singapore-based Ng Mun Poh has spent the last 18 years of her life travelling between her two “homes''. As she should.
In a monodrama equal parts heartfelt and humorous, almost home dramatises the struggle of finding her place in a home where nothing, and yet so much has changed.
A first version of the work, Daughter, was received with rave reviews as part of Practice's It's Not About The Numbers series in September 2021. It has since been brilliantly reimagined for a black box stage in collaboration with director Yeo Lyle and dramaturg Neo Hai Bin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ1-TV6-Ehs
《我以为家》的创作旅程** From Script To Stage: The Journey of almost home
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