Wild Rice Ltd
Founded in 2000, W!LD RICE is recognised today as Singapore’s leading theatre company, attracting a diverse audience of 50,000 people each year. Our company to provide an open forum for the shared experience of theatre; celebrating Singapore's diversity, reflecting on the problems and possibilities of our times, and presenting productions that inspire, challenge and entertain. A commitment to the highest standards informs every aspect of W!LD RICE’s creative work which is first and foremost a celebration of Singapore theatrical talent. It's exciting and varied programming for the main stage includes: • New and original works. • Revivals of the Singapore theatre canon. • New interpretations of the World’s Classics. The company’s mission to build a theatre culture also extends to the wider community through the following divisions: • CH!LL! PADI, our Education and Outreach division for schools and community audiences. • First Stage, a project which nurtures young talents from 5 – 16. • Young & W!LD which identifies and develops Singapore’s young theatre professionals. W!LD RICE consistently tours its shows internationally to raise the profile of Singapore theatre, to create an international awareness of its unique productions, and to engage its artists and collaborators in creative dialogues globally. Its distinctively Singaporean productions have won great acclaim at major international arts festivals in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong and Malaysia, New Zealand and Russia In August 2006, W!LD RICE presented the inaugural SINGAPORE THEATRE FESTIVAL, a biennial new writing festival committed to develop, present and promote Singapore Theatre. To date, festival has to date produced 19 World Premieres of new Singapore writing, and has been hailed as “the main event in the world of the arts” (SPH The Straits Times 2006), and the “Blockbuster Event of the Year "(Today, 2008). W!LD RICE is a Singapore Registered Charity (no. 01579)
