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Museum Musings: Sailing the South Seas in National Gallery Singapore’s Roof Garden with Cao Fei’s 浮槎 Fú Chá

National Gallery Singapore presents its fourth commission in the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission series, 浮槎 Fú Chá, by one of China’s foremost contemporary artists, Cao Fei. On display from 17th January to 25th October 2020, this work marks the first kinetic sculpture to be installed at the Roof Garden, comprising a spectacular five-metre tall structure of a swinging wooden ship (that spits water), accompanied … Continue reading Museum Musings: Sailing the South Seas in National Gallery Singapore’s Roof Garden with Cao Fei’s 浮槎 Fú Chá

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In London’s (Off) West End 2020: Tryst at Chiswick Playhouse (Preview)

LONDON – Following a sell-out run in 2017, the gripping revival of Karoline Leach’s passion-fuelled thriller, Tryst, returns to the reinvented Chiswick Playhouse under the direction of Phoebe Barran. Actor Fred Perry will reprise his acclaimed role alongside Scarlett Brookes in this stylish adaptation. Based on a true story, this tense thriller focuses on the serial fraudster, George Love, who encounters a naïve and vulnerable … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West End 2020: Tryst at Chiswick Playhouse (Preview)

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Touring The UK 2020: Harpy by Something for the Weekend and Kings Theatre Portsmouth (Preview)

LONDON –  Following a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2018, personality and national treasure Su Pollard returns to reprise her role in Harpy by award-winning playwright Philip Meeks, as part of an extensive UK tour this Spring. Best known for her star-turn as Peggy in the BAFTA award-winning sitcom Hi-de-Hi!, the muchloved Su Pollard has had a career in showbusiness spanning four … Continue reading Touring The UK 2020: Harpy by Something for the Weekend and Kings Theatre Portsmouth (Preview)

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M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020: An Interview with Reut Shemesh (ATARA – For you, who has not yet found the one)

Female, Jewish and an Israeli living in Germany, Reut Shemesh’s background is certainly one that offers up a myriad of perspectives by which to see the world. At the 2020 M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, Reut will be bringing in her work ATARA – For you, who has not yet found the one, investigating femininity, religion and personhood with a mixed cast of Orthodox and secular dancers. … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020: An Interview with Reut Shemesh (ATARA – For you, who has not yet found the one)

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M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020: An Interview with Spacebar Theatre (The Utama Spaceship)

If there’s one thing Singapore theatre seems to lack, it’s more companies willing to go down the irreverent route, having fun with their craft and taking theatre to its extremes. For Spacebar Theatre, comprising Eugene Koh and Lee Shu Yu, the NUS Theatre Studies graduates are about to do just that with The Utama Spaceship, playing this January as part of the 2020 M1 Singapore Fringe … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020: An Interview with Spacebar Theatre (The Utama Spaceship)

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Review: The Shadow Curriculum by Jelaine Ng (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)

★☆☆☆☆ (Performance attended 11/1/20, 2pm) Attempt to satirise motivational speakers unclear in its motives and falls flat.  In Singapore’s results-oriented society, success is everything. So it comes as no surprise that parents will try any ways and means necessary to give their children a leg up in the place that will most likely make or break their future: school. From countless tuition lessons to enrichment … Continue reading Review: The Shadow Curriculum by Jelaine Ng (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)

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Arts, London, Preview, Theatre, travel

London’s VAULT Festival 2020: APPLE by The Upsetters and Purple Moon Drama (Preview)

LONDON – Playing as part of the VAULT Festival 2020, APPLE charts the story of Rosemary Clark as she goes on a journey of self-discovery from slut-drops in the Trocadero back to rural Jamaica. Written and performed by Purple Moon Drama founder Cheryl Ndione, and directed by Simone Watson, APPLE is poised to be a darkly comic and introspective look at a less-than-rosy mother and … Continue reading London’s VAULT Festival 2020: APPLE by The Upsetters and Purple Moon Drama (Preview)

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In London’s West End 2020: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella To World Premiere In London Late Summer 2020

LONDON – Musical theatre legend Andrew Lloyd Webber’s highly anticipated Cinderella will open at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London’s West End, with performances beginning in September 2020. The production, a complete reinvention of the classic fairytale, is based on an original idea by Emerald Fennell, the Emmy Award nominated lead scriptwriter of the second season of international smash hit Killing Eve, with a brand new score … Continue reading In London’s West End 2020: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella To World Premiere In London Late Summer 2020

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Review: Beside Ourselves by .gif (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)

★★☆☆☆ (Performance attended 10/1/20) Great songs from .gif stitched together with a premature theatre production unable to fully capture the theme of displacement with its form.  While primarily known as darlings of the local music scene, local electronica duo .gif has also recently dabbled in mediums such as theatre, having provided the lush, trippy soundtrack to Checkpoint Theatre’s Displaced Persons Welcome Dinner (2019). Their iconic … Continue reading Review: Beside Ourselves by .gif (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)

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Music Is: Inner Worlds – Igor & Pei Sian in Concert with re:Sound (Preview)

Start 2020 off with a round of music as re:Sound Collective presents Inner Worlds – Igor & Pei Sian in Concert at the Victoria Concert Hall this January. Bringing together violinist Igor Yuzefovich, co-concertmaster of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and SSO principal cello soloist Ng Pei-Sian, the concert is set to bring audience members on an exploration of the human spirit. The set will open … Continue reading Music Is: Inner Worlds – Igor & Pei Sian in Concert with re:Sound (Preview)

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