Chinese Theatre Festival

Practice's Chinese Theatre Festival is a sustained effort to create a space for Chinese-language performances in Singapore. It was started with the intent to address the lack of variety in Chinese theatre performances locally, as well as to make professional standard performances more accessible to both adults and children. As Kuo Jian Hong puts it: "For the Chinese theatre scene to thrive, it needs to be carefully tended. Only then can the saplings grow into trees, and trees into forest, endlessly, ceaselessly."

Chinese Theatre Festival offers a wide spectrum of possibilities of Little Theatre. It adopts the term "Little Theatre" to frame the types of works it stages and presents. Little Theatre may refer to the performance space, the performance itself, and/or the presenting company of said performance. The phrase also connotes works that may be more "experimental" in nature. Hence, this festival is also comprised of local and international artists and theatre practitioners across the Chinese diaspora, who situate their practice within Little Theatre.