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]
Churn Creamery 4th June 2016 Churn has been open for about 9 months now, and this is the first time we decided to drop by. Some photos of their ‘puffones’ have been floating around the Internet, and we’re suckers for interesting revolutions in dessert (or just suckers for dessert in general) Considering that Tanjong Pagar is now home to countless bingsu places, it’s nice to … Continue reading An Insight to Churn Creamery
Falling 28/5/16 8pm Pangdemonium returns for their second show of the season with another play about disabilities, following hot on the heels of last year’s Tribes. This time, the focus is autism, and follows the day in the life of an 18 year old boy with severe autism, and his family’s struggles. Primary caregiver and mother Tami (Tan Kheng Hua) spends most of her day … Continue reading Review: Falling by Pangdemonium
Dream Academy – Meenah and Cheenah – 14 May 2016, 4Pm (Matinee) It’s surprising how this hasn’t happened till now, but Dream Academy has finally United two of singapore’a best funnywomen onstage for their very own show. Siti Khalijah and Judee Tan are completely in their element here, playing a spectrum of local character archetypes with aplomb, moving the audience to a rousing laughter. Clocking … Continue reading Meenah & Cheenah
It’s 2016, and countries across the world are celebrating the Bard’s 400th birthday. Singapore is no different, and SRT has decided to celebrate with a performance of Romeo and Juliet for this year’s edition of their highly acclaimed annual Shakespeare in the Park. We attended this year’s edition of Shakespeare In The Park on opening night, and SRT has delivered the goods once again with … Continue reading Romeo and Juliet by SRT (27/4/16)
The Blue Man Group is an utter mystery, combining comedy, theatre and dance into a single energetic performance. They’ve done well on Broadway and Las Vegas for 25 years, despite their confusing premise. I first heard about them watching an episode of Arrested Development, way back in the early 2000s, so when I found out they were performing in Singapore for the first time, … Continue reading The Blue Man Group
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