Category: Arts

Arts, Concert, Review, Theatre

M1 Peer Pleasure Festival 2020: What If? (Review)

  Considering it’s the year the world is going through a global pandemic, it feels strangely appropriate that the final year of the M1 Peer Pleasure Festival is themed around Disability. Not only did the team involve disabled creatives and performers in the works this year, but also, considered the idea behind how disability is simply a different way of perceiving the world, something that COVID-19 … Continue reading M1 Peer Pleasure Festival 2020: What If? (Review)

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Arts, Concert, Preview, Theatre

Preview: SCENES – Participatory Practices by Drama Box

  Drama Box is celebrating its 30th year in Singapore arts with SCENES: Participatory Practices, a virtual gathering of artists from the Asia Pacific region with socially-engaged artistic practice. SCENES first took place in 2010 with a celebration of Chinese language theatre in Singapore, and has since been programmed every 5 years as Drama Box’s way of consolidating its practice. The second edition in 2015 … Continue reading Preview: SCENES – Participatory Practices by Drama Box

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Arts, Singapore

W!ld Rice, SRT and Pangdemonium! unite for short film The Pitch

Back in February, when the COVID-19 pandemic was just beginning, leading Singaporean theatre companies Pangdemonium!, W!ld Rice and Singapore Repertory Theatre banded together in a show of solidarity by offering discounts to each other’s shows, if audience members held tickets to any one of them. Now, with theatres still shut and the performing arts in difficulty, the three are coming together once again, this time … Continue reading W!ld Rice, SRT and Pangdemonium! unite for short film The Pitch

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Arts, Concert, Review, Theatre

M1 Patch! 2020: Play with…Power (Review)

  The future of Singapore lies in your hands. Co-organised and developed by The Theatre Practice (TTP) and Accommodate, the last of the 2020 M1 Patch! workshops ends with Play with…Power. In the online land-use simulation game, players roleplay as various civil servants, as they work together with their respective parent ministry to bid for land in order to decide how to develop it for the … Continue reading M1 Patch! 2020: Play with…Power (Review)

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M1 Patch! 2020: Play with…Flavours (Review)

Anything goes in the world of cocktails. The art of mixology may come across as a craft reserved for those with exquisite taste buds and superior skills, but if it’s one thing bartender Johnny Rosle (who mixes drinks at bespoke cocktail bar Oriental Elixirs) has taught us, it’s that anyone can make a good drink, as long as you’re willing to play. Playing as part … Continue reading M1 Patch! 2020: Play with…Flavours (Review)

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M1 Patch! 2020: Playwrights’ Bootcamp (Review)

Bringing out unexpected creativity under immense time pressure. If anyone was asked to write, conceptualise and stage a play in under 3 days, most people would balk and respond that it’s an insane task. But for the participants of The Theatre Practice’s Playwrights’ Bootcamp, it’s an activity they’ve willingly taken upon themselves to see through once again, as they create and perform a whopping nine plays … Continue reading M1 Patch! 2020: Playwrights’ Bootcamp (Review)

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Review: Between 5 Cows and the Deep Blue Sea (Dramatised Reading) by Brown Voices

The trials and tribulations of brown women finding love among the many fish in the sea.  Written by A Yagnya and directed by Rebekah Sangeetha Dorai, Between 5 Cows and the Deep Blue Sea tackles one of the most pressing and contentious issues that Indian people have been facing throughout history – marriage. As anyone who’s watched Netflix’s hit series Indian Matchmaking will know, love is serious … Continue reading Review: Between 5 Cows and the Deep Blue Sea (Dramatised Reading) by Brown Voices

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Arts, Books, By The Book, Interview, literature, Review, Singapore

★★★★☆ Book Review: How the Man in Green Saved Pahang, and Possibly the World by Joshua Kam

Queering Malaysian folklore in a fantastical modern day romp. As the youngest, and first non-Singaporean winner of the annual Epigram Books Fiction Prize, Malaysian writer Joshua Kam has a lot of expectations placed upon his debut novel. But as it turns out, How The Man In Green Saved Pahang, And Possibly The World, meets those expectations as one of the most wildly original and entertaining regional works … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Book Review: How the Man in Green Saved Pahang, and Possibly the World by Joshua Kam

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Arts, Books, By The Book, Interview, literature, Review, Singapore

★★★☆☆ Book Review: The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human – Tales from Many Muslim Worlds

Writers from around the world come together to showcase the diversity of the lived Muslim experience.  Scoured from just about every corner of the world over a period of over four years, The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human is a richly diverse collection of short non-fiction that illustrates what it means to be a modern Muslim. With most stories lasting no longer than 10 pages, each … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Book Review: The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human – Tales from Many Muslim Worlds

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★★★★☆ Book Review: Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha

A freak incident blows open old wounds and dark secrets in this novel about the destruction wreaked by fear and racism. Throughout American history, Asians have always taken the backseat when it comes to discussions of race, with the Black or Latinx community always the minorities featured at the forefront, and their issues prioritised due to their urgency. As the ‘model minority’, Asians still bear … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Book Review: Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha

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