UPCOMING SHOW AT THE PLAYHOUSE

GETTING TESTED THEATRE PRODUCTION

Date: 13 – 15 November 2025
Venue: Loft Theatre


It’s a theatre production based on the true stories of four female dancers who meet for rehearsal, coming from different backgrounds. MANDISI who is a very bubble character with hidden skeletons (e.g. she was raped by her father, she was a striper, also been arrested for a murder.) SMAH (she reveals that she was once married to and when the husband left, she was forced to marry his brother forced by other women including mother-in-law. GUGU a very humble character a very glamorous lady coming from a very rich background, very naïve and insensitive, we later learn that she was diagnosed with HIV, and she even try to commit suicide.

NTO a lesbian who has experienced hate crimes and is not accepted by her peer. She tells the story of how she overcame it all and started a dance academy. MATILDA grow up being body shamed yet She is the only one amongst them who is happily in love and always bragging about it in the rehearsal’s play is a 45-minute production with 5 female actors on stage each portraying more than 4 characters as the story is told in different artistic elements (music, dance and acting) flashbacks. It also highlights achievements by women taking reference from the women of 1956 and women of 2020.