Made your reservation for the most exciting staycation yet? Headlining this year’s edition of the Singapore Theatre Festival is none other the winner of this year’s Production of the Year at the Life! Theatre Awards: Hotel, along with Best Director, Best Script and Best Ensemble. Co-written by Singapore’s l’enfant terrible Alfian Sa’at and Marcia Vanderstraaten, and co-directed by Ivan Heng and Glen Goei, Hotel boasts … Continue reading PREVIEW: Hotel by W!ld Rice
Perhat Khaliq is most famous for appearing on “The Voice of China” in 2014, earning him millions of fans worldwide and bringing the sound of Uyghur to the forefront of mainstream media. The audience today were fervent and raring for the performance to start, and promptly cheered and burst into applause when Khaliq arrived onstage. Admittedly, this is the first time I experienced Khaliq in action, and … Continue reading The O.P.E.N. 2016: Perhat Khaliq & Qetiq (24/6/16)
We previously attended the National Gallery’s Common Grounds Open House on 11 June, greeted with Lindy Hop dancers, Chinese Calligraphy artists and fascinating talks. This weekend, Common Grounds returns once again due to its overwheming popularity, and to celebrate the National Gallery’s 1 Millionth visitor. Come on down this weekend, 25-26 June to celebrate art and family, not to mention the fact that you’ll gain … Continue reading National Gallery – Common Grounds (25-26 June)
Today marks the start of the O.P.E.N., the pre-festival to the Singapore International Festival of the Arts. Artists and media were gathered at 72-13, home of Theatreworks, where festival director Ong Keng Sen made an opening speech explaining SIFA’s theme of Potentialities and the O.P.E.N. about being ‘Open to the Individual In You’. Newsha Tavakolian does just that, in an extensive solo exhibition that spans … Continue reading I Know Why The Rebel Sings – SIFA: The O.P.E.N. 2016
Today, we returned to the wilderness of Goodman Arts Centre to tackle the second set of plays by a new wave of young practitioners. This week, we saw much more sociopolitical themes, from attitudes towards foreigners, government campaigns and Without much further ado, here’s part 2 of the Fresh plays: 5pm – Curry Puff by Kimberly Arriola Curry Puff marks the second monologue of the … Continue reading Twenty Something Theatre Festival Week 2 [18/6/16]
We’re back at the Twenty-Something Theatre Festival for its second week, and we heard that tickets are almost completely sold out for all four productions! It’s a very exciting weekend, and we can’t wait to share the good theatre with you guys. This week, we’re starting off once again with the Headliner of the week, penned by Joel Tan, whose previous works include Mosaic and … Continue reading Café by Joel Tan [17/6/16]
This is our review of the three Fresh plays featured this week during the Twenty Something Theatre Festival. This week’s selection was dark, featuring dead boyfriends, suicidal parents and rape victims. Yikes. Nonetheless, despite the heavy material, the plays were overall enjoyable, and were successful at showing that our millennial generation very much has a voice and issues worth playing out onstage. For all my criticism, … Continue reading REVIEW: Twentysomething Theatre Festival – Fresh Plays Week 1
The inaugural twenty something theatre festival began this week, and we were really excited to cover it! We marathoned all four plays today, and we’re going to review the headline play here, and the Fresh plays in a separate post. Kudos to Tan Kheng Hua for producing this amazing festival with great opportunities, and hoping that it returns again next year! We started off the … Continue reading REVIEW: Trees, A Crowd… 11/6/16
Gentle Bones, aka Joel Tan is just 22 years old, and he’s already managed to have two sold out shows at the Esplanade (when Les Miserables is playing next door!) It’s impressive, to say the least, how many fans he’s garnered over the past 4 years he’s been active since he first released his hit single ‘Until We Die’. Since that first song, he’s been … Continue reading REVIEW: Gentle Bones 10/6/16
Following the success of Manifesto, the Necessary Stage returns to present Ghost Writer, a multimedia performance that seamlessly combines dance, theatre, music and videography to create a rich visual and sensual experience. Ghost Writer takes inspiration from Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, drawing on both his work and life. It’s difficult to sum up what exactly Ghost Writer is about, considering its nature as a piece of almost abstract physical theatre. Ghost … Continue reading REVIEW: Ghost Writer by The Necessary Stage [9/6/16]
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