Taiwan’s Godot Theatre Company will stage Yasmina Reza’s ART at Esplanade Theatre from 18 to 20 September 2026, three years after the company’s Huayi 2023 run of the same play, according to Esplanade’s event listing on 29 August.
Esplanade said the satirical play “exposes both the beauty and savagery of friendship.” The listing also carries the production’s billed question: “Are you who you think you are? Or are you who your friends think you are?”
What the production is billed as
Esplanade’s synopsis says one man buys a piece of modern art, a friend objects, and a third tries to keep the peace, putting a long friendship under strain. The arts centre attributes the play to French playwright Yasmina Reza and describes it as her best-known work after awards in London and New York.
Performances are listed in Mandarin with English surtitles. The billed running time is 2 hours 15 minutes, with no intermission. Admission is from age 6. Assistive listening is listed. Door time is not published on the event page.
Cast and creative team
Godot Theatre Company is listed as a Taiwan company. Esplanade names Artistic Director Liang Chi-Ming as director, with Pu Hsueh-Liang, Chu Chung Heng and Tseng Kuo Chen in the cast.
The 2026 Singapore date is a return to Esplanade Theatre, not a new title. The company last presented ART at Huayi, Chinese Festival of Arts, in 2023, Esplanade said.
Dates, venue and tickets
Shows are listed at 8pm on Friday 18, Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 September 2026 at Esplanade Theatre. The nearest MRT station is Esplanade, with City Hall and Promenade as alternatives.
Standard prices on Esplanade’s page on 29 August were Cat 1 at S$158, Cat 2 at S$138, Cat 3 at S$118, Cat 4 at S$98, Cat 5 at S$68 and Cat 6 at S$48. Cat 6 is S$110 below Cat 1 on the same ladder. Limited concession tabs are listed for students, national servicemen and seniors, and separately for persons with disabilities. Those concession dollar figures were not shown on the Standard tab on 29 August.
Esplanade&Me early-bird discounts ran from 26 May to 15 June 2026 and have closed. From 16 June, Esplanade&Me Black is listed at 15 per cent off, and White and Discover at 10 per cent, with a minimum of two tickets, limited availability, and Standard Cat 1 and 2 only. PAssion members are listed at 10 per cent off from the same date, with a minimum of four tickets, limited availability, and Standard Cat 1 and 2 only. Secondary schools, junior colleges, the Centralised Institute and ITEs may use the Tote Board Arts Grant to subsidise up to 50 per cent of the programme cost through Esplanade Box Office.
Esplanade names Esplanade.com and SISTIC as official booking channels. Booking fees are not printed as a flat extra on the event page.
SG Culture Pass eligibility is not stated on the listing checked on 29 August. Any performance time besides the 8pm block is also unpublished there.
Related Esplanade listings on Little Big Red Dot include the Singapore Symphony Orchestra National Day concert and Agápe.
