The Rajah’s Rice
This is a folktale from India about a kind little girl Chandra who outwits the Rajah with her intelligence and talent in mathematics. How does a young girl from a modest background use her smarts to get the better of a powerful ruler for the benefit of the people?
Join us for an engaging online storytelling session, with a specially created digital home kit!
Suitable for children aged between 5 and 12.
Date: 4th December 2021, Saturday
Time: 11am SGT (GMT+8)
Duration: 45 mins
Tickets: S$20 per child
Max. Capacity: 100
Email us at [email protected] for tickets and payment details.
The session will be conducted in English.
* All profits from this show will be donated to AWARE to support their work in gender equality in Singapore.
About the Storyteller
Rebekah Sangeetha Dorai (she/her/hers) is an actor, singer, and voiceover artist.
Addressing race, sexuality and identity, her show Building A Character premiered at the Singapore Theatre Festival in 2018. A commission by Singaporean theatre company Wild Rice for their 6th Singapore Theatre Festival, it was the first time that an actor of Indian descent had helmed a monologue in the Festival’s history. The sold-out show was also featured as The Business Time’s Top 3 theatre picks of the Year. She also scored a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Life! Theatre Awards Singapore for her multi-character turn in Three Fat Virgins (2019).
Other selected performance credits include Discord of Discourse (UK), Miss British (Esplanade Studios), Eloquence (with Santiago, Chile), Merdeka (Wild Rice), Who’s There (The Transit Ensemble), The Coronalogues (SRT), Two Songs and a Story (Checkpoint Theatre), NDP 2020, and Rasanai (TWorks). Her short film, Seven Centimetres From Myself (Pantheon Media) was one of just 25 films (and the only Asian film) to be screened at the Go Mental! International Short Film Festival 2021, a Berlin film festival focused on mental health.