Visitors are invited to three stage performances today and throughout this weekend at the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA).
Running for two weeks until the end of this month, SIFA 2026 is carrying the theme "Legacy". Organised by the Arts House Group, the 49th edition of Singapore's annual performing arts festival honours artistic lineage while imagining the future.
Strangely Familiar starts at Victoria Theatre at 8pm today and tomorrow, and 2pm on Sunday. A transcultural dance production by T.H.E Dance Company, in collaboration with artists and designers across Asia and beyond, revolves around an encounter between five performers and digital being. It envisions coexistence with an otherworldly ecosystem.
Last Rites is performed at SOTA Studio Theatre at 8pm today, 2pm tomorrow and 8pm on Sunday. Bringing together five venerable artists -- averagely aged 74 -- from Asia, a new theatrical experience confronts profound themes of legacy. At its core lies a soul-searching question of what they leave behind.
Through in-depth interviews with these five living artists, the piece traces back to their original callings, the courage they found in the face of challenges, and their personal understanding of art, life and immortality.
Hamlet is reimagined at Drama Centre Theatre at 8pm today and 2pm tomorrow. Peru's Teatro La Plaza presents a group of actors with Down Syndrome in an adaptation of William Shakespeare's existential play. It raises the question of value of life in an ableist society.
Visitors can also catch up with other large-scale works at the Punggol Digital District. A Light Between Rains, at 5.15pm today and 6.15pm tomorrow, is a theatrical parade of colourful sensory experiences.
Noli Timere returns at 6.30pm and 8.30pm today, 5.30pm and 7.30pm tomorrow, and 5pm and 7.30pm on Sunday. A five-year collaboration between two artists, Rebecca Lazier and Janet Echelman, this aerial show presents eight performers, 7.5m in the air, on a net sculpture to demonstrate the fragility of the world's ecosystem.
For a full list of programmes, visit sifa.sg.
