Category: Review

Arts, Review, Theatre

★★★★☆ Review: Every Brilliant Thing by Gateway Arts

Sharon Sum lifts our spirits in this fringe performance that fights back against crushing depression with hope and wonder. What are the things worth living for? As part of National Suicide Prevention Month, Gateway Arts presents a new staging Duncan Macmillan’s critically-acclaimed one-person play Every Brilliant Thing, as directed by Oliver Chong and starring Sharon Sum. Chong himself previously starred in a Mandarin adaptation of … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: Every Brilliant Thing by Gateway Arts

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Arts, Concert, Music, Review

Review: Screen Play (SMU Arts Fest 2024)

Movie soundtracks go from screen to the stage in a feel-good end to SMU Arts Fest 2024. Ending off the 2024 SMU Arts Fest, student orchestra SMU Symphonia and SMU Chamber Choir came together to perform the soundtracks of some of cinema’s most popular and beloved films last Friday at the SOTA Concert Hall. Led by SMU Symphonia resident conductor Adrian Chiang, not only did … Continue reading Review: Screen Play (SMU Arts Fest 2024)

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Arts, Review, Theatre, Wild Rice, Wild Rice @ Funan

★★★★☆ Review: Dive by Wild Rice

New and Now initiative by Wild Rice plunges into the deep end with Laura Hayes’ arresting play about a long-term abusive relationship. They say there’s plenty of fish in the sea, but what if the one you end up hooking pulls you overboard? In Laura Hayes’ Wild Rice debut, the NAFA lecturer explores the often complex and damaging aspects of abusive relationships through the lens … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: Dive by Wild Rice

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Arts, Esplanade Theatre Studio, Review, Theatre, Theatres

★★★★☆ Review: This Song Father Used To Sing (Three Days In May) by Wichaya Artamat

A closer look at ordinary life that carries on in spite of the extraordinary. Thai writer-director Wichaya Artamat claims that his play This Song Father Used To Sing (Three Days In May) is an unpolitical play. But can any play truly be completely devoid of any political attachment? Rounding off the Esplanade’s 2024 season of The Studios, This Song Father Used To Sing (Three Days … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: This Song Father Used To Sing (Three Days In May) by Wichaya Artamat

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Arts, Malay Theatre, Review, Singapore, Theatre

★★★★★ Review: Geng Rebut Cabinet (GRC) by Teater Ekamatra

Timely, charged play that skilfully skewers the pitfalls of politics, and how change is almost impossible from within. Politicians have never had it easy. On one hand, they have to ensure that they gain the adoration of the citizens such that they can secure the popular vote and remain in power. On the other hand, how much change can they actually achieve, as they compromise … Continue reading ★★★★★ Review: Geng Rebut Cabinet (GRC) by Teater Ekamatra

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Arts, Review, Theatre

Review: GAME PLAY – Dungeons & Distractions (SMU Arts Fest 2024)

Enthusiastic audience participation and a winsome storyline lands a critical hit and sparks joy in the crowd. Theatre doesn’t always have to be a serious affair, as proven by GAME PLAY, an immersive experience that played as part of the 2024 SMU Arts Fest last weekend. Creative producers Jo Tan, Edward Choy and Terrance Tan came together to bring Dungeons & Dragons to life, with … Continue reading Review: GAME PLAY – Dungeons & Distractions (SMU Arts Fest 2024)

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Arts, musical, Review, Sands Theatre, Singapore

★★★★★ Review: Miss Saigon by Base Entertainment Asia

Look beyond the ‘romance’ and you’ll find a scathing criticism of war and the pain it leaves in Schönberg and Boublil’s classic tragedy. Miss Saigon is often considered one of Broadway and the West End’s biggest legacy musicals, with a beautiful score composed by the duo that made smash hit Les Miserables, show stopping special effects and choreography that leave you breathless with its theatrics, … Continue reading ★★★★★ Review: Miss Saigon by Base Entertainment Asia

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Arts, Review, Theatre

★★★☆☆ Review: One Day We’ll Understand 有那么一天​ by Sim Chi Yin

Performance-lecture on biased historiography and hidden knowledge urges us to critically reconstruct our interpretations to formulate our own version of the truth. The Malayan Emergency in the late 1940s continues to remain a traumatic memory for many Chinese Malaysians, where families would recall relatives hurriedly leaving the country, or worse – hauled away for questioning over suspected Communist relations, and never seen again, at least, … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Review: One Day We’ll Understand 有那么一天​ by Sim Chi Yin

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Arts, Review, Singapore, Theatre

★★★★☆ Review: Lotus Root Support Group (2024) by Impromptu Meetings

Balls to the walls – literally, as play about cyst-ers in PCOS goes wilder and more personal in its reboot. While its title and promo image may look more or less identical to its 2022 version, Impromptu Meetings’ new staging of Lotus Root Support Group is in fact, a completely different incarnation that sees creators Shannen Tan and Miriam Cheong shedding the characters they devised … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: Lotus Root Support Group (2024) by Impromptu Meetings

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Arts, Review, Theatre

★★★★☆ Review: Rhapsody in Yellow by Ming Wong

A deeper look at USA-China relations and their respective histories through a musical lens. The relationship between China and America has always been a fraught one, due to their inherent competition as fellow superpowers vying for influence, and their opposing ideologies. But it is when no compromise can be made that softer approaches come into play, that is, through means such as sports and the … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: Rhapsody in Yellow by Ming Wong

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