in 1965, 1st of July, when he returned from studying abroad.

This was a memorable date as not only did he establish the school,

he was also married on this very day. Students and ex-students were

very active in the school as they still were highly involved with the school

even after they have completed the drama course.

and was the first ever Bertolt Brecht play to be performed in Singapore.

"Go into Life Campaign" to experience life of the labouring masses

in Singapore and Malay Pennisula. Their guiding principle was "Art came

from life. Without knowing life first-hand and deeply, especially the life of the

labouring masses, it would be difficult to write artistic works." This resulted in

the build-up of original works based on real life stories of labouring people

like The Fishing Village.

-The Theatre Practice

-The Substation

-The Theatre Training and Research Programme

-The Intercultural Theatre Institute

nature of Chinese theatre culminated into the 1976 massive leftist purge, he released his first production

"The Little White Sailing Boat". In 1984, he wrote the first draft of "The Coffin is too Big for the Hole" which was a response

to the Singapore Arts Festival guest director's call to local playwrights to present sketches of Singapore life.

Recently, his production "Mama Looking For Her Cat" was deemed by The Business Times as one of the "finest plays in 50 years".