Singapore: The Road to Independence is an immersive theatre journey that blends professional actors with community participants from the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas. Featuring both Americans and Singaporeans, the production takes audiences on a metaphorical subway ride through time — from Singapore’s founding to its present-day transformation. Designed as an interactive experience, the play invites the public to step into the narrative and become part of the storytelling itself.
Director Searit Huluf (www.filmfreeway.com/searit) and SingaporeConnect (www.SingaporeConnect.org) present The Road to Independence, an immersive theatre experience that traces Singapore’s evolution from a fishing village to a sovereign nation — and ultimately, a global model for sustainable innovation and urban excellence.
Part of the inaugural Singapore Festival — the first of its kind held outside the country — this immersive performance is both a tribute and an invitation: to see Singapore not just as a destination, but as a story worth knowing.
Singapore is often admired but rarely understood. A lush, cosmopolitan city-state in the heart of Southeast Asia, it is now recognised as a global financial and technological powerhouse — efficient, forward-looking, and environmentally conscious. But few know of the improbable path it took to get here.
Just sixty years ago, Singapore was a small island with fewer than two million people, no natural resources, and little global presence — save for its strategic location and its people. Multicultural, pragmatic, and unrelenting in their belief in the possible, Singaporeans built something extraordinary from almost nothing.
This year, as Singapore marks its 60th year of independence, we look back not simply to commemorate history, but to understand the forces — political, cultural, human — that shaped this quiet giant.
Professional directed and acted, an original script by SingaporeConnect, catch in our immersive theatre a showing of Singapore: The Road to Independence, only at the Singapore Festival.
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