Christopher Fok

Christopher Fok

Christopher Fok, a Singapore playwright, works in the architecture of stories, for everything of note is made of them. Brands, spaces, people. He believes that strong narrative architecture ensures a lasting quality, a building you go back to again and again, just to look at the arches. Notable performances, produced, written directed, designed and sometimes acted by him include Strange Fruit (2011), The Choral...
Christopher Fok, a Singapore playwright, works in the architecture of stories, for everything of note is made of them. Brands, spaces, people. He believes that strong narrative architecture ensures a lasting quality, a building you go back to again and again, just to look at the arches. Notable performances, produced, written directed, designed and sometimes acted by him include Strange Fruit (2011), The Choral-ic Singer (2012), The Blesser of Utensils (2012), Paper Men (2012), Postgrads (2012), Begin (2012), People (2013), Apotheosis (2013), Loud Mouth Loving (2013), Atomic Jaya (2013), Outsider. (2014), Micromanage Overwork Exaggerate (2014), 15 Stations (2015), A Twisted Kingdom (2015), No Problem (2016) and A Hole (2017)

Plays

  • A Twisted Kingdom
    FULL-LENGTH: A Twisted Kingdom is a fairytale with modern consequences. It follows the iconic journey of The Fool through the abyss, who searches for his kidnapped prince, and in doing so dredges up memories long suppressed and forgotten. The play is an unrelenting examination of childhood trauma, and how facing one's personal demons can lead to a simple cathartic truth.
  • Strange Fruit
    SHORT: Damien Hearse [sic] is looking for a new artwork for his third house. And he is just enamoured by this new art piece 'Strange Fruit' much to the horror of Pandera Snoot, the art dealer. In their push and pull and cutting arguments about art, his art specifically, they end up discovering that all that academic talk still falls short of describing life.
  • The Blesser of Utensils
    SHORT: Kwan, the kitchen god, cooks for his absent child in a live on-set demonstration of a dish, comfort food. He faces off against the infernal machine, the microwave oven and waxes lyrical about the beauty of cooking.
  • Rubbish
    FULL-LENGTH: Ah Ma, the rag-and-bone woman, is unaware of the new law recently passed by the Singapore Government, where all rubbish that is thrown away is now government property. Now she must navigate this new world, where scavengers can no longer count on recycling for income.
  • The Jackets
    FULL-LENGTH: A motley crew of people wait in a warehouse, waiting to be sent off on their journey into the unknown, and some of them might not make it. When all other avenues have been exhausted, the only way to be truly missing is to do things illegally in this country.
  • Walitha'walitha
    FULL-LENGTH: With a cast including aboriginal deities, Walitha’walitha is a meditation on the construction of myth, the nature of sacrifice and the place of tribal concepts in a world that grows increasingly cruel towards their own natives and outsiders. The main character Eddy stows away on a cargo ship on a box, where he meets an array of large animals on the ship, a parrot, a possum and a koala bear. The...
    FULL-LENGTH: With a cast including aboriginal deities, Walitha’walitha is a meditation on the construction of myth, the nature of sacrifice and the place of tribal concepts in a world that grows increasingly cruel towards their own natives and outsiders. The main character Eddy stows away on a cargo ship on a box, where he meets an array of large animals on the ship, a parrot, a possum and a koala bear. The animals welcome his arrival as a sign of the larger cosmos and the integral part he must play in this dreamscape that he is trapped in. He is repeatedly chased on the ship by Captain Lai and his cargo man, Sofian, who double up as evil spirits, who wish to harm Darama, the great spirit who has brought Eddy into the dream. Eddy realizes that he has carried his own trauma into the dream and this is keeping him trapped in there, and is subsequently tempted by Captain Lai, who plays the evil spirit Bawurramu, to give up his nightmare in exchange for freedom. In which, Eddy makes his choice and finally understands his purpose.
  • Loud Mouth Loving: A Public Confession
    ONE-ACT: This experimental ensemble piece explores the love that people feel for each other but choose to keep silent. The masks are an excavation of silence and the many metaphors of the face.
  • The Water Corridor
    A monologue told which retells a childhood trauma that results in the disappearance of a family member and a hidden walkway only accessed by rain.