A passport summarises you in an instant. It opens up the world or damns you to bureaucratic hell. It affirms your identity or is just a booklet with benefits. A way out or a guarantee of a home to come back to. What do passports mean to you? Departing from OH! Open House’s typical style, Singapore’s favourite neighbourhood art walk takes on not one but … Continue reading OH! Open House 2019: PASSPORT (Preview)
According to findings from the Quality of Life (QOL) study conducted by the National Council of Social Service (NCSS), six in 10 persons with disabilities do not feel that they are socially included, accepted or given opportunities to contribute or fulfil their personal potential. Since 2016, in partnership with the Tote Board, NCSS has been running their ‘See the True Me’ disability inclusion campaign, seeking to actively educate, … Continue reading Fire In The Rain: Singapore’s First Ever Full Inclusive Music Video Released To Promote Disability Inclusion Campaign ‘See The True Me’
Emotional, poignant drama unfolds at the worst dinner ever. Dinner parties can be absolute nightmares. But dinner parties aimed to make peace with the parents who bullied your son into suicide? Unthinkable. Such is the case for grieving parents Debora and Michael (Janice Koh and Edward Choy) in Late Company, who invite Tamara and Bill (Karen Tan and Adrian Pang), and their son Curtis (Xander … Continue reading Review: Late Company by Pangdemonium
United we stand, divided we fall. Inspired by the concept of prime numbers – numbers indivisible by anything other than themselves and 1 and with no immediately apparent pattern, former Cloud Gate Dance Theatre members Bulareyaung Pagarlava (Taiwan) and Albert Tiong (Singapore) each choreographed a work attempting to unravel the mysteries behind them, showcasing how they may have more application to daily life than we … Continue reading Huayi Festival 2019: That Which Cannot Be Divided (无法被整除) by Bulareyaung Pagarlava & Albert Tiong (Review)
Nerve wracking thriller of a play that keeps you guessing every step of the way. Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness. I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. Of the many Chinese philosophers we grew up learning from our scholar of a Chinese teacher … Continue reading Huayi Festival 2019: The Way of Zhuang Zi (庄子兵法) by Story Works (Review)
LONDON – In their second collaboration with Director-Writer team Edwina Strobl and Mark Daniels, Matchstick Theatre presents a brand new otherworldly dark comedy as part of their Spring Season, aimed at showcasing emerging London playwrights in a new performance space in Deptford/New Cross. Matchstick Theatre welcomes you to The Institute of Nuts, a crazy school-cum-retreat-cum-prison where people’s names are letters and their reasons for being … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West End 2019: The Institute of Nuts by Matchstick Theatre (Preview)
The Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) has appointed Hans Sørensen to its newly created position of Director of Artistic Planning. Sørensen was most recently Artistic Planner and Orchestra Manager for the Göteborgs Symfoniker (the National Orchestra of Sweden). Says Chng Hak-Peng, CEO of the Singapore Symphony Group (SSG), which manages the SSO, Singapore’s national orchestra: “We are delighted to welcome Hans on board as one of … Continue reading Singapore Symphony Appoints Hans Sørensen as Director of Artistic Planning
The dynamic duo are back again, with tight character work and strong performances that brings the laughs hard and fast. Whether or not you caught the 2016 version, or are curious to see what Dream Academy has in store with this rerun, Meenah and Cheenah is a comedy whose audacious yet relatable jokes can and will stand the test of time. Reuniting theatre extraordinaires Siti … Continue reading Review: Meenah and Cheenah (Rerun) by Dream Academy
Waiting rooms can feel like hell. Over the years, purgatory onstage has taken a great many forms, from the horrific to the mundane. With Stanley Seah’s The Transition Room, the face of limbo takes an absurdist approach towards the middle ground, as we open with four characters finding themselves in a bare, abstract room, each dressed in shades of grey, with no memory or knowledge … Continue reading Review: The Transition Room by Toy Factory
LONDON – Awkward Conversations with Animals I’ve F*cked comes to the King’s Head Theatre where it is set to push, prod and poke at the impermissible and the unmentionable. Following sell-out shows at Edinburgh Fringe, Awkward Productions present this critically-acclaimed, darkly comic production all about love, acceptance and boundaries. One-night stands are awkward. One-night stands with animals are more awkward. And when you’re as desperate … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West End 2019: Awkward Conversations with Animals I’ve F*cked at King’s Head Theatre (Preview)
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