The Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT) is the first Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

-based professional theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 group which was founded in 1993. It is reputed to be the leading English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 theatres in whole of Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

. The SRT's mission is to stage theatre of the highest calibre, collaborating with the best talent from around the world.

In addition to its repertoire of original works like Forbidden City:Portrait of An Empress, the company has produced a number of critically acclaimed plays

Play (theatre)

A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of scripted dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference whether their plays were performed...

 that include Golden Child, Into the Woods, Rent, Hamlet

Hamlet

The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...

, They're Playing our Song, Barefoot in the Park, Honk!, Art and M Butterfly.

With the SRT's relentless drive to expose the younger community to as many levels of performing arts

Performing arts

The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...

as possible, the SRT's Youth Division provides an educational platform with The Young Co and The Little Company.

Most plays by the SRT are usually held at the DBS Arts Centre at Merbau Road, Robertson Quay but some plays are held at Esplanade