Category: Review

Arts, Dance with Me, Esplanade Theatre Studio, Experimental, Music, Review, Singapore, Singapore Arts, Theatre., Theatre, Theatres

Kalaa Utsavam 2017: Khwaab-Sa – Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by The Company Theatre (Review)

Khwaab-Sa opens with a spotlight on lithe, petite dancer Ronita Mookerji as the iconic spirit Puck. In the background, a musician clad in a unicorn mask assaults our ears with loud electronic music, as Mookerji writhes and vibrates. Grinning madly, she laughs silently before impishly back-flipping across the stage, a moon projection making her lunacy obvious. This is Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as you’ve never seen … Continue reading Kalaa Utsavam 2017: Khwaab-Sa – Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by The Company Theatre (Review)

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Arts, London, musical, Review, Singapore, Singapore Arts, Theatre., Theatre

Review: The Addams Family presented by Mediacorp VizPro

The Addams are one of the most recognizable fictitious families around. Even if you don’t know them by name, you’ll probably know them by face, caught while channel flipping or in a Halloween costume. Familiarity like that lends a steady hand to hold the newest iteration of The Addams Family together, allowing audiences to feel a sense of comfort from the moment they hear the opening notes of the … Continue reading Review: The Addams Family presented by Mediacorp VizPro

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Arts, Concert, Esplanade Concert Hall, Music, Review, Singapore, Theatres

Mosaic Music Series 2017: Feist (Review)

Leslie Feist’s 26 year music career has certainly had its share of highs. The Canadian artist has come a long way since her humble beginnings as lead vocalist for a Calgary punk band in 1991, joining indie rock outfit Broken Social Scene, and attaining international recognition when a track featured on a iPod nano commercial went viral and the album it was featured on earned … Continue reading Mosaic Music Series 2017: Feist (Review)

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Arts, Esplanade Annexe Studio, Music, Review, Singapore

Mosaic Music Series 2017: Shugo Tokumaru (Review)

Last in Singapore in 2013, Japanese multi-intrumental experimental musician Shugo Tokumaru has since released his seventh album. On TOSS, Tokumaru has expanded his quirky, eclectic pop music further still, including collaborating with Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier, to reach new sonic heights, employing instruments from xylophones to ukuleles and harps to handclaps to create impossibly colourful sounds that would give anyone synaesthesia. So it’s no surprise then that at his show at the … Continue reading Mosaic Music Series 2017: Shugo Tokumaru (Review)

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Arts, Books, Review, Singapore, Singapore Writers Festival, Theatres, Victoria Theatre

Singapore Writers Festival 2017 Closing Debate: This House believes that Kiasuism is a Good Singaporean Trait

In its traditional stand-up comedy routine form, the closing debate of the Singapore Writers Festival had audiences falling off their chairs laughing through the 90 minute show. Ironically, this only proved that the ‘kiasu-ism’ displayed by over 600 people queuing over six hours for free entry tickets to the debate was worth it after all. The debate closed the 20th Singapore Writers festival last Sunday … Continue reading Singapore Writers Festival 2017 Closing Debate: This House believes that Kiasuism is a Good Singaporean Trait

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Arts, Esplanade Recital Studio, Esplanade Theatre, Esplanade Theatre Studio, Review, Singapore, Singapore Arts, Theatre., Theatre, Theatres

#mydurianturns15: Backstage Pass with… Siti K

Without a doubt, we can safely say that Siti Khalijah Zainal is one of our absolute favourite actresses in the local theatre scene. Always armed with a smile and bubbling over with incredible energy, Siti has charmed our socks off, making us laugh and cry in productions as varied as Meena and Cheena and Rosnah. So it’s really no surprise that when we found out she was part of … Continue reading #mydurianturns15: Backstage Pass with… Siti K

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Arts, Esplanade Annexe Studio, Experimental, Music, Review, Singapore, Theatres

Mosaic Music Series 2017: sudo by FERRY X Canvas Conversations (Review)

The Esplanade’s 2017 Mosaic Music series kicked off with a real showstopper last night, with local electronic band Canvas Conversations collaborating with fellow local musician FERRY (of Giants Must Fall). Interestingly, this was actually our very first show at the Esplanade Annexe Studio, and we couldn’t possibly have asked for a better introduction to all its capabilities. For the geekier readers amongst you, you might … Continue reading Mosaic Music Series 2017: sudo by FERRY X Canvas Conversations (Review)

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Arts, Film, London, Review

Review: A Carribbean Dream dir. Shakirah Bourne

Even when Shakespeare has been done to death, it always amazes us how directors constantly come up with new ways to visualize the bard’s work. The latest iteration, A Caribbean Dream, adapts A Midsummer Night’s Dream into a Barbados, modern day setting, rife with the feel of the carnival, with plenty of big, colourful costumes to represent the fairy realm, and romance at the edge of … Continue reading Review: A Carribbean Dream dir. Shakirah Bourne

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Arts, Mastercard Theatres, Music, musical, Review, Singapore, Singapore Arts, Theatre., Theatre, Theatres

Review: The Sound of Music at Mastercard Theatres

Hailed as one of the great musical classics, The Sound of Music has returned to Singapore’s shores to bring back all your favourite songs and more! Last seen here in 2014, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s unforgettable and arguably, most successful musical features an all new cast with all of the same favourite elements. This is a production that knows exactly what it’s doing, … Continue reading Review: The Sound of Music at Mastercard Theatres

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Arts, Esplanade Theatre Studio, Experimental, Intercultural Theatre Institute, Review, Singapore, Singapore Arts, Theatre., Theatre, Theatre Companies, Theatres

Review: Our Town by Intercultural Theatre Institute

The final performance of each batch of Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI) graduating students always finishes with a bang, and Our Town is no different. Directed by Arts NMP and Dramabox Artistic Director Kok Heng Leun in his first solo directorial effort since 2015, the production manages to bring Thornton Wilder’s classic play to new heights, highlighting the play’s underlying concerns about distance and lost time. Kok’s vision … Continue reading Review: Our Town by Intercultural Theatre Institute

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