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Singapore

By Design: An Interview with Daniel Boey, on Ahmedabad Design Week

Necessity is the mother of invention, and in a world where you can’t go anywhere without a screen in sight, anyone without a digital presence is in dire need of reinvention. That’s what creative director, producer and ‘godfather of Singapore fashion’ Daniel Boey has been busy doing for the last few years since the pandemic hit, as he and his team explore the possibilities going … Continue reading By Design: An Interview with Daniel Boey, on Ahmedabad Design Week

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Preview: Solo/Oray Aal 2023 by SITFE

This weekend, SITFE invites audiences to catch six monologues about stories of celebration. In this second instalment of their Solo/Oray Aal monologue series, SITFE gathers a team of writers, directors and actors to perform these celebrations, which see no need for confetti, champagne or parties at expensive restaurants, for they are deep, personal, soulful, silent and even life changing. No matter how hard life might hit … Continue reading Preview: Solo/Oray Aal 2023 by SITFE

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Arts, Chinese Theatre, Review, Theatre

★★★★★ Review: ART by Godot Theatre Company

Fragile friendship torn asunder by abstract art. Category Score (out of 10) Direction (Liang Chi-Ming) 10 Script (Yasmina Reza) 9 Performance (Pu Hsueh-Liang, Chu Chung Heng and Tseng Kuo Chen) 10 Stage Design (Nieh Kuang-Yen) 8 Costume Design (Chin Ping-Ping) 8 Lighting Design (Tsao An-Huei) 8 Music Composition/Arrangement (Chen Kao-Hwa) 8 Total 61/70 (87%) Final Score: ★★★★★ No matter how many times we’ve watched ART, … Continue reading ★★★★★ Review: ART by Godot Theatre Company

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Interview, Preview, Singapore, The Second Breakfast Company, Theatre

The Paiseh Pieces: An Interview with writer/director Adeeb Fazah, composer Bennett Bay and lyricist Stephanie Phang

The paiseh piece – the very last item left on the plate people are afraid to take, for fear of offending everyone else, and looking like a selfish person. As a result, that paiseh piece remains untouched, the sole survivor that is left alone. Could there be such paiseh pieces living among us, in their own lonely existences? That’s the basis and inspiration behind The … Continue reading The Paiseh Pieces: An Interview with writer/director Adeeb Fazah, composer Bennett Bay and lyricist Stephanie Phang

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Preview: Old Gaze by The Necessary Stage

After almost 20 years, The Necessary Stage brings back old friends to present brand new play Old Gaze. Brash, audacious and just rollicking good fun, Old Gaze is the third and final instalment following TNS’ seminal LGBTQ plays Mardi Gras (2003) and Top or Bottom (2004). “This final installment has been written 19 years later. The three main characters played by Hossan, Kumar and Rody … Continue reading Preview: Old Gaze by The Necessary Stage

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Singapore

Preview: The Paiseh Pieces by The Second Breakfast Company

The Second Breakfast Company (2BCo) is set to produce its first ever musical, The Paiseh Pieces, in February 2023 at Wisma Geylang Serai (WGS). This production, presented in collaboration with WGS, revolves around three young adults, Tobias, Rina and Sara navigating adulthood in Singapore. The three besties on the precipice of adulthood find themselves in difficult situations. Tobias, a struggling theatre actor, can’t seem to … Continue reading Preview: The Paiseh Pieces by The Second Breakfast Company

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Huayi 2023: An Interview with Lee Yi-Hsiu and Hsu Shu-Hui of La Cie MaxMind

The most fragile of cultural heritage is often the intangible, lying in customs, traditions and art forms that need to be passed down from generation to generation for survival. And as time goes by, too many of these practices are lost. Taiwanese arts company La Cie MaxMind hopes to preserve at least one of these traditions with the shows they put on. This week, they’re … Continue reading Huayi 2023: An Interview with Lee Yi-Hsiu and Hsu Shu-Hui of La Cie MaxMind

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Huayi 2023: 13 Tongues by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (Preview)

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre is perhaps one of Taiwan’s most well-regarded contemporary arts companies, producing countless quality dance works since being founded in 1973. Combining a plethora of dance and movement forms, from qi gong to martial arts, modern dance to ballet, the company blends the traditional and contemporary as it brings its productions to the world. In their first performance in Singapore since the … Continue reading Huayi 2023: 13 Tongues by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (Preview)

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Review: A Novel Idea – SingLit Edition by The Arts House (Textures 2023)

New edition of the beloved dramatised reading series brings three SingLit works to life. If movie trailers exist to promote films, why not book trailers to promote works of literature? Enter A Novel Idea, the brainchild of The Arts House and local theatre director Samantha Scott-Blackhall, which does exactly that, using a dramatised reading to bring the written word to life, and entice audience members … Continue reading Review: A Novel Idea – SingLit Edition by The Arts House (Textures 2023)

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Review: Foreign Bodies by Birds Migrant Theatre

Big-hearted, honest work about the plight of migrant workers in Singapore. Far too often, migrant workers in Singapore are seen only as cheap expendable labour or worst of all, subjects of crime articles splashed over newspapers. This act of othering migrant workers constantly demeans their humanity, and reduces them to mere statistics. At what point do we begin to treat them with respect as equals, … Continue reading Review: Foreign Bodies by Birds Migrant Theatre

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