Toy Factory’s The Transition Room: An Interview with Stanley Seah and Goh Boon Teck

This February, Toy Factory opens their 2019 season with a brand new production. Written and directed by Toy Factory Associate Artistic Director Stanley Seah, The Transition Room will be making its premiere at the Drama Centre Black Box, after previously having had a dramatized reading held at Toy Factory’s space at NOWplaying@17. Originating about 4 years ago as a school play, Stanley elaborates more on how The Transition … Continue reading Toy Factory’s The Transition Room: An Interview with Stanley Seah and Goh Boon Teck

Pink Floyd Tribute Band Welcome to the Machine Presents Brain Damage This February

Following a rousing set at Beerfest 2018, Southeast Asia’s one and only Pink Floyd tribute band ‘Welcome To The ‘Machine’ is back this February with a monster of a show. Playing for one night only at The Lab at Kallang Place, Welcome to the Machine presents Brain Damage, a mega concert featuring two of Pink Floyd’s most critically acclaimed albums in their entirety. Released in 1973 … Continue reading Pink Floyd Tribute Band Welcome to the Machine Presents Brain Damage This February

Museum Musings: An Interview with Madeleine Lee, Inaugural Poet-In-Residence At The National Gallery Singapore’s Words on Arts Series

Some time back, National Gallery Singapore began their Words on Art programme, introducing the idea of poets-in-residence to pen collections based on their time spent within the gallery walls, admiring the works of art and putting pen to paper. The first of these local poets was Madeleine Lee, whose ekphrastic poetry written in response to the Gallery’s exhibitions was collected in regarding, published by National Gallery Singapore … Continue reading Museum Musings: An Interview with Madeleine Lee, Inaugural Poet-In-Residence At The National Gallery Singapore’s Words on Arts Series

London’s VAULT Festival 2019: 10 By Joyous Gard and Snatchback (Preview)

LONDON – As part of the VAULT Festival 2019, Joyous Gard returns for the third year to the festival to co-present a brand new play by Lizzie Milton. Titled 10, the play is set to celebrate ten unsung heroines from history when it premieres in the final week of the festival in March. 10 stories, 5 performers, 1 riotous celebration of history’s heroines. Pick up your average history textbook … Continue reading London’s VAULT Festival 2019: 10 By Joyous Gard and Snatchback (Preview)

Preview: Alice, Bob & Eve by RAW Moves

Moving on from their 2018 theme of Competition, RAW Moves strides in 2019 with their first production of the year. Conceptualized by interdisciplinary artist Teow Yue Han in collaboration with RAW Moves Artistic Director Ricky Sim, Alice, Bob & Eve is a durational movement research ‘living laboratory’ hidden in a gallery space at School of the Arts, probing how digital technologies choreograph our movement in society. … Continue reading Preview: Alice, Bob & Eve by RAW Moves

Museum Musings: In Random Order at FOST Gallery

This year, FOST Gallery starts off 2019 with a brand new exhibition. At In Random Order, works by artists Kray Chen, Heman Chong, Grace Tan and Syagini Ratna Wulan are set to be featured, unified by functioning within a structure, physical or conceptual, in turn determined by a set of rules and a unified composite of interrelated and independent (possibly infinite) modular parts. Yet each … Continue reading Museum Musings: In Random Order at FOST Gallery

In London’s (Off) West-End 2019: Of Our Own Making by Something Underground (Preview)

LONDON – Award-winning London theatre company Something Underground launches a brand new play this January, Set against the Syrian refugee crisis, and after years of young people being radicalised into terrorist groups, groomed into drugs gangs in London, or Far Right groups across a post-Brexit Britain, the play, titled Of Our Own Making, asks what role society has in creating “monsters”. Written by Something Underground artistic director Jonathan Brown, … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West-End 2019: Of Our Own Making by Something Underground (Preview)

Review: Flowers of the Night by Kamini Ramachandran (ARTWALK Little India 2019)

Tales of rebirth, gender fluidity and karma from Singapore’s top storyteller Held as part of ARTWALK Little India 2019, in a small brick and mortar gallery housed  between Rowell Road and Desker Road, master storyteller Kamini Ramachandran returned for her fourth time performing at the festival to regale audiences with her tales of the past and the epic. Gathered around her as she knelt beside an altar-like … Continue reading Review: Flowers of the Night by Kamini Ramachandran (ARTWALK Little India 2019)

Preview: Off Centre (2019) by The Necessary Stage

26 years since its premiere in 1993, The Necessary Stage (TNS) is once more bringing back one of their most well known plays to the stage in 2019 – Off Centre. Written by TNS Resident Playwright Haresh Sharma and directed by TNS artistic director Alvin Tan, Off Centre was a bold new step forward for Singapore theatre as it cast an honest and unflinching spotlight on the stigma of … Continue reading Preview: Off Centre (2019) by The Necessary Stage

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2019: Catamite by Loo Zihan (Review)

A moving lesson on the life-cycle of objects. There is a belief in the Japanese Shinto religion that everything, including everyday household objects, possesses a life force of its own. From umbrellas to notebooks, clothes to food, each of these items, while seemingly non-living, have the potential to mean and be so much more than what they initially appear to be to the right person. … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2019: Catamite by Loo Zihan (Review)