EVENT: SpongeBob Run 2016

EVENT DATE: 6 AUG 2016 VENUE: SILOSO BEACH WALK, SENTOSA TIME: 4PM-8PM DISTANCE: 5KM FUN RUN / 800M KIDS DASH Nothing could be better to celebrate the National day Long Weekend with The Inaugural Spongebob Run 2016 that will be held on the 6th of August 2016 at Siloso Beach Sentosa. You can view all the information you’ll need on their official website at http://www.sbrun.sg or … Continue reading EVENT: SpongeBob Run 2016

Review: Let’s Get Back Together by Red Pill Productions (10/7/16)

Red Pill Productions’ Let’s Get Back Together (or rather unsubtly, LGBT) was first staged in 2014, and W!ld Rice has revived it for the 2016 Singapore Theatre Festival with an all new cast, consisting Ezzat Alkaff, Ann Lek, Ruzaini Mazani, Eleanor Tan, Jo Tan and Zachary Ibrahim. LGBT is a play much in the same vein as Alfian Sa’at’s Cooling Off Day, in that it uses interviews … Continue reading Review: Let’s Get Back Together by Red Pill Productions (10/7/16)

Review: Apprentice dir. Boo Junfeng

Boo Junfeng’s name has been making the rounds in Singapore, most recently for directing that advert featuring a long distance relationship made possible through Singtel. It’s no surprise; after all, he’s one of the nation’s best, following his sensitive coming of age film debut Sandcastle in 2010. In his latest film, which premiered at the Cannes Festival this year, we follow Aiman (Firdaus Rahman), a young Malay man … Continue reading Review: Apprentice dir. Boo Junfeng

REVIEW: Ibsen:Ghosts

Last night, the German duo Markus&Markus left an indelible Margot-shaped impression in local discourse on the right-to-die with their riveting documentary theatre Ibsen: Ghosts. This certainly isn’t the first time Singaporean audiences have been confronted with moral questions about dying (think: the use of medical marijuana in Haresh Sharma’s Good People (2007)), and this moving piece with its dearly departed protagonist Margot suggests that one … Continue reading REVIEW: Ibsen:Ghosts