Pickle Party: Building the "Set"

Explore how the practice of pickling can be integrated into performance-making and set design!

Guided by two members of Pickle Party's creative team, Ang Xiao Ting (co-director) and Tanja Beer (set designer), this hands-on workshop allows participants to learn about different facets of sustainability through the lens of Southeast Asian pickling traditions, while gaining an insight into the developing field of eco-scenography.

The workshop invites participants to contribute to the "living stage" by preparing jars of pickles that will be featured in the performance. By experiencing the embodied practice of preservation firsthand, they will help create and shape a set that evolves in real time.

This workshop is open to theatre artists, designers, and food practitioners interested in alternative approaches to theatremaking.

This is a companion programme to Pickle Party (11 – 14 Sep 2025) at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, a new performance work that reimagines the kitchen as a stage, the pickle jar as an archive, and fermentation as a dramaturgical process. The Studios companion programmes are an invitation to deepen engagement with the artistic works and conversations raised in the season.

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Check out the main production, Pickle Party here.