Epicurean Market is back this weekend, and the only rule is that there’s no limit to how much food and drink you should be consuming! Taking place at the Marina Bay Sands Expo Halls, the 5th edition of the annual food and wine fair was a spectacularly well put together affair, professionally set up and impressing from the moment we stepped into the three-hall large … Continue reading Review: Epicurean Market 2017
To celebrate the release of Despicable Me 3 in cinemas, Universal Studios Singapore has invited everyone’s favourite minions to throw a party down at the theme park! In accordance with the film, the minions breakout party took on a prison theme. A completely immersive experience, you’ll already feel the party vibe the moment you step into the theme park, with all the staff dressed up as minions, … Continue reading Universal Studios Despicable Me Breakout Party
Even amidst the madcap restagings and new productions as part of their 30th anniversary, The Necessary Stage has been spending the last few months nurturing and developing new scripts for the stage. This week, The Orange Production is the result of that, presenting two all new plays from writers Nabilah Said with Drip, and Faith Ng with Whale Fall. Check out our review of these new plays below! … Continue reading Review: The Orange Production by The Necessary Stage
In moulding the future of our nation, have we forgotten that our children are only human too? Using abstract, physical theatre, Split Productions’ latest piece Deaf is a bold attempt to bring up and discuss such issues with the education system and society as a whole, taking its name from how students’ cries for help too often fall on deaf ears. Written by and directed by … Continue reading Review: Deaf by Split Productions
Michael Chiang makes a triumphant return to the stage with a brand new script this year. Coinciding with both NS50 and the 30th anniversary of the original Army Daze, Army Daze 2 is the sequel you never knew you wanted to one of Singapore’s most iconic plays, and successfully brings across a comedic, modern take on National Service in 2017. Watching familiar characters appear onstage older but wiser … Continue reading Review: Army Daze 2 by Michael Chiang Playthings
The 2017 Chinese Theatre Festival is back, and besides plenty of new, thought-provoking pieces of high art, The Theatre Practice always ensures that there’s something for everyone…even kids! Enter The wee Question Mark and the Nameless, a fun-filled, interactive family musical and the latest iteration in the Wee Question Mark series. Written by Huang Suhuai and directed by Kuo Jianhong, The wee Question Mark reunites Question Mark (Gloria Ang Xiao Teng), … Continue reading Chinese Theatre Festival 2017: The wee Question Mark and the Nameless by The Theatre Practice (Review)
Ever imagined stepping into a stranger’s house on the other side of town and immediately becoming privy to their family life? The 2017 Singapore International Festival of the Arts main season kicked off this weekend with Jeffrey Tan’s Open Homes, where audiences were given the unique experience of entering a stranger’s house as a guest, listening to the homeowner introduce them to the home while telling audiences … Continue reading SIFA 2017: Of Fathers, Daughters and Families (Open Homes Week 1 Review)
Earlier this week, I watched another play made under Toy Factory’s new writing programme, The Wright Stuff. It was deeply ambitious in its storytelling and had a keen voice on both the personal and the historical. First-time playwright Samantha Chia attempts something quite different from this in her debut play, A Piece of Cake, focusing her lens on a sitcom-esque story about a woman and her new … Continue reading Review: A Piece of Cake by Toy Factory (The Wright Stuff 2017)
Ever imagined the Padang would be overrun by giant rabbits? Or two siblings in charge of the flow of time would take over some of our most iconic museums? If you want to be a part of this fantastic world, then all you have to do is head on down to the Civic District this August for the inaugural Civic District Outdoor Festival! Organized by … Continue reading Civic District Outdoor Festival: A Timeless Encounter with Art
Sim Yan Ying’s Without Reason has a simple premise: boy meets girl, they fall in love, and start a relationship. But there’s a twist. Without Reason is an honest look at the difficulty of maintaining an interracial relationship in Singapore, and Sim Yan Ying has crafted an accessible play that encourages audiences to see that falling in love should be as easy as finding common ground … Continue reading Review: Without Reason (M1 Peer Pleasure Youth Theatre Festival 2017)
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