The Singapore Theatre Company (STC) will be called the Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT) again, the company announced in a July 31 statement on its website. The post reads: “For the past 30 years, we’ve been known as Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT) – a name...
Singapore Theatre Company will return to its old name of 31 years, Singapore Repertory Theatre after members of the theatre community objected to its new name.The Singapore Theatre Company will be called the Singapore Repertory Theatre again, the company announced in a July 31 statement on its website.
SRT’s rebrand as STC on Jan 31, which came on the heels of the company’s 30th anniversary, was fraught and short-lived, lasting all of six months. The Singapore theatre community swiftly objected to the new name as the company was seen as appropriating the label of “Singapore Theatre” in a diverse and multilingual scene.
She earlier told ST that the Singapore theatre scene is “too diverse, too multi-faceted, too colourful” for any one company to claim the name of STC.
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