Review: Almost 55 乔杨 by City Contemporary Dance Company (Huayi 2020)
★★★★☆ (Performance attended 9/2/20) Age is no barrier to Qiao Yang in this dance-biopic of her life. While most of the narrative heavy-lifting in biopics is often done via text, […]
Huayi 2020: An Interview with Veteran Dancer Qiao Yang, Star of City Contemporary Dance Company’s Almost 55
The dance world has never been kind towards ageing dancers, with most performance careers ending in their 30s. But for 50-something year old dancer Qiao Yang, her age becomes a […]
Huayi 2020: An Interview with Huang Chih Kai, Director of Story Works X Dreamland’s The Long Goodbye
Dementia is one of the most terrifying conditions to possibly strike a human being. At the heart of Story Works X Dreamland’s The Long Goodbye is an accomplished author who has been […]
Review: Principle 原则 by Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (Huayi 2020)
★★★★☆ (Performance attended 1/2/20) Education is politics as two opposing ideologies go head to head in a school setting. Does school prepare students for the real world? While the academic […]
Review: Firebird – Piano Sensation Tony Yike Yang Solo Recital (Huayi 2020)
★★★★☆ (Performance attended 2/2/20) Piano prodigy’s plays like a majestic phoenix rising from the flames. Playing as part of the Esplanade’s 2020 Huayi – Chinese Festival of the Arts, award-winning […]
Review: 7 Sages of the Bamboo Grove 竹林七贤 by Toy Factory (Huayi 2020)
★★★☆☆ (Performance attended 31/1/20) Allegorical tale of a dystopian surveillance state preaches the value of the arts, but loses itself in a myriad of subplots along the way. During the rule […]
Review: Prism of Truth 眾相 by Ground Z-0 (Huayi 2020)
★★★☆☆ (Performance attended 31/1/20) Modern rework of Rashomon allows audience to play jury in a multimedia social experiment. In the field of conspiracy theory, so long as a claim cannot be […]
Huayi 2020: An Interview with Kwok Wing Hong, Playwright of HKRep’s Principle, and Anthony Chan, Artistic Director of HKRep
When a new principal joins a school, she establishes her power with a host of new rules and an authoritarian leadership, forcing everyone to go strictly by the book. In […]
Huayi 2020: An Interview with Goh Boon Teck, Director and Playwright of Toy Factory’s 7 Sages of the Bamboo Grove
In Chinese history, there existed a group of seven Chinese scholars, writers, and musicians of the third century CE. As the Jin dynasty came into being, the ‘Sages’ found their […]
Huayi 2020: An Interview with Star Pianist Tony Yike Yang
At the tender age of 16, Chinese-Canadian pianist Tony Yike Yang took the music world by storm when he became the youngest-ever laureate at the prestigious 2015 Chopin International Piano […]
Preview: Esplanade presents Huayi Festival 2020
As we approach Chinese New Year once again, so does the Esplanade’s annual Huayi – Chinese Festival of Arts. Come the year of the Rat, often considered a symbol of […]
Review: Dear Elena (青春禁忌游戏) by Nine Years Theatre
Worst birthday ever makes for one of the best shows of 2019. Growing up in Singapore, the hard and fast path to ‘success’ has always been made abundantly clear to […]
Review: Tanah•Air 水•土 – A Play In Two Parts by Drama Box
Remembering those we’ve forgotten via two tales of the dispossessed. As much as the Bicentennial celebrations claim to remember the some 700 years of recorded history of Singapore and the […]
An Interview with the Creatives Behind Tanah•Air 水•土 – A Play In Two Parts by Drama Box
Tanah Air: A phrase in Malay that means ‘homeland’ in English, and forming the overarching theme of Drama Box’s newest work – Tanah•Air 水•土：A Play In Two Parts, premiering this week as […]
Nine Years Theatre’s Dear Elena: An Interview with Nelson Chia, Mia Chee and Timothy Wan
Near the start of 2019, local theatre company Nine Years Theatre (NYT) announced their new season, starting with FAUST/US in February, original play First Fleet in July, before rounding off with a […]
Preview: Dear Elena (青春禁忌游戏) by Nine Years Theatre
Nine Years Theatre returns this October for their third and final production of the year. Following the premiere of brand new play First Fleet in July, the company returns to their […]
