Project Plait: An Interview with Founder and Choreographer Naomi Tan

Project Plait’s unique set-up of a dinning experience combined with dance has seen it through 5 successful years, most recently with 2018’s A Samsui Love Affair, which impressed us when it played last year as part of the Singapore Food Festival. Once again, the stellar team is back as part of the festival, this time with a brand new show and concept The Mem’s Servants. Set in 1921, The … Continue reading Project Plait: An Interview with Founder and Choreographer Naomi Tan

Preview: M1 Peer Pleasure Youth Theatre Festival 2019 by ArtsWork Collaborative

Following a one year hiatus, the M1 Peer Pleasure Youth Theatre Festival, Singapore’s only annual theatre festival by young people presented by ArtsWok Collaborative, returns this July to the Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay. Taking on the theme of Poverty, this year’s edition will feature a brand new Artistic Director in the form of veteran theatre practitioner and drama educator Jean Ng. Exploring what poverty looks … Continue reading Preview: M1 Peer Pleasure Youth Theatre Festival 2019 by ArtsWork Collaborative

In London’s (Off) West End 2019: This is Black at The Bunker

LONDON – Opening The Bunker’s Autumn Season, This is Black will premiere theatre productions by four new and exciting Black writers across an alternating double-bill. Exploring identity, family relationships and universal struggles, the festival will showcase All the Shit I Can’t Say to My Dad by Abraham Adeyemi and Blue Beneath My Skin by Macadie Amoroso with PYNEAPPLE by Chantelle Alle and Melissa Saint and Teleportation … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West End 2019: This is Black at The Bunker

In London’s (Off) West End 2019: Femme Fatale by Fireraisers at Omnibus Theatre

LONDON – 1968. New York. Nico, singer with The Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol’s Superstar, waits to shoot his latest movie when her Chelsea Hotel room is invaded by radical feminist Valerie Solanas. She wants the celebrity’s help to spread her message of female revolution, but Nico only craves drugs to insulate her from her pain. A darkly comic battle begins, between two iron-willed opponents who … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West End 2019: Femme Fatale by Fireraisers at Omnibus Theatre

Preview: SSO National Day Concert by Singapore Symphony Orchestra

The 1915 Raffles MarchComposed by A. Dietz, former Director of the Orchestra at the Raffles Hotel. Dietz himself is a mystery, with little is known of him, not even his first name. The work is known to have been performed on 13th September 1922 at the hotel, in a special concert reported in The Straits Times the day before. And in 2017, more than a century … Continue reading Preview: SSO National Day Concert by Singapore Symphony Orchestra

Preview: LumiNation 2019 at The Arts House

The Arts House’s LumiNation festival is back this August for its second edition! Held in conjunction with National Day, LumiNation is set to celebrate and explore the Singaporean identity in all its facets through performances, talks and more. Audiences are invited to discover and reconnect with the quieter parts of the Singaporean conversation over a single weekend of thoughtfully curated programmes. In this particular edition, LumiNation is going a step further … Continue reading Preview: LumiNation 2019 at The Arts House

Camden Fringe 2019: The Cardboard Kitchen Project by FK Co-Lab

LONDON – After bringing their interactive installation Dear Cardboard Kitchen to Singapore in May, London based Singapore company FK Co-Lab has further developed the installation into a full length theatre production, set to premiere at Camden Fringe this August. Created by FK Co-Lab co-founders Faezah Zulkifli (director) and Nur Khairiyah Ramli (producer), The Cardboard Kitchen Project follows Jennie, as she moves from Singapore to London. She inherits a … Continue reading Camden Fringe 2019: The Cardboard Kitchen Project by FK Co-Lab

Nine Years Theatre’s First Fleet (第一舰队): An Interview with Director Nelson Chia

Following FAUST/US earlier this year, Nine Years Theatre returns this week for their second production of the year – an original work about the first British fleet to step foot onto what would eventually become Australia, aptly titled First Fleet. Written and directed by Nelson Chia, we posed a number of questions to the Nine Years Theatre Artistic Director to find out a little more about what we … Continue reading Nine Years Theatre’s First Fleet (第一舰队): An Interview with Director Nelson Chia

Dream Academy’s Broadway Beng: An Interview with Sebastian Tan

In many ways, Broadway Beng seems eternal. Having debuted in 2006, the dapper, Hokkien-spouting, Broadway/West End musical-lovin’ ‘beng’ has become something of a national icon in his own right, winning the hearts of countless aunties, xiao mei meis and men alike with his swagger and charm. But unlike an icon such as say, James Bond and how the character changes actors every few years, Broadway Beng can and will … Continue reading Dream Academy’s Broadway Beng: An Interview with Sebastian Tan

Review: Happy Waiting by Grain Performance & Research Lab

Modern homage to Beckett’s works reflects on the crushing despair of mundane routines and walking depression.  Taking both its name and inspiration from two plays by master of absurd theatre Samuel Beckett, Happy Waiting sees Grain Performance & Research Lab attempt to use the absurd medium to confront issues of joy and routine in daily life. Written by Beverly Yuen and directed by choreographer Bernice Lee, Happy Waiting combines elements … Continue reading Review: Happy Waiting by Grain Performance & Research Lab