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SIFA 2017: Germinal by Halory Goerger, Antoine Defoort (Preview)

Germinal is a truly special show to come to SIFA this year. Imagining the theatre as a metaphor for human civilisation itself, the team behind Germinal play god and reconstruct the world from the very beginning of time itself. Utilising the magic of theatre, they invent the laws of physics, music, language and social interaction using only the most minimal of tools – guitars, pickaxes and mics. … Continue reading SIFA 2017: Germinal by Halory Goerger, Antoine Defoort (Preview)

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SIFA 2017: Inspiration for the Soul (Open Homes Week 3 Review)

It’s the final weekend of Open Homes, and this time around, we stuck around in familiar territory in the East. Today, the homes we visited were inhabited each by an incredibly strong, determined woman: Wendy Wand in her home at Frankel in the afternoon and Anthea Ong’s ‘Bliss Loft’ in Marine Crescent. Both of their performances happened to touch on their stories of divorce, and how they’ve … Continue reading SIFA 2017: Inspiration for the Soul (Open Homes Week 3 Review)

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SIFA 2017: Art Studio by Nine Years Theatre (Review)

Based off Yeng Pway Ngon’s 2012 Singapore Literature Prize-winning novel of the same name, Nine Years Theatre once again has a real winner on their hands with their theatrical adaptation of Art Studio, undoubtedly one of the biggest, most anticipated new works this year.   Following the myriad lives of a group of artists over the course of fifty years, Art Studio is a sprawling, epic piece that takes … Continue reading SIFA 2017: Art Studio by Nine Years Theatre (Review)

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SIFA 2017: Becoming Graphic by Sonny Liew and Edith Podesta (Review)

Sonny Liew initially seems like an odd choice to put onstage as part of an international arts festival. After all, the 42-year old Eisner Award winning comic artist has close to no experience in theatre. But if there’s anyone who can be counted on to bring out the drama of comics and adapt it for the stage, it’s his collaborator and Life! Theatre Award winning … Continue reading SIFA 2017: Becoming Graphic by Sonny Liew and Edith Podesta (Review)

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SIFA 2017: Of Couples and Children (Open Homes Week 2 Review)

Week 2 of Open Homes brings a new set of houses and homes to visit, and we decided to head on down to Eunos and Toa Payoh this time around to visit two seemingly ordinary families, whose love sees them through darkest of times and gets them past the nastiest of naysayers. Check out our review of this week’s Open Homes below! History and Herstory … Continue reading SIFA 2017: Of Couples and Children (Open Homes Week 2 Review)

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SIFA 2017: Art Studio by Nine Years Theatre (Preview)

This year, the Singapore International Festival of the Arts (SIFA) opens with local theatre company Nine Years Theatre’s premiere of Art Studio. Directed by Nelson Chia and adapted from Cultural Medallion Winner Yeng Pway Ngon’s 2012 Singapore Literature Prize-winning novel of the same name, Art Studio is an epic performance that spans the 60s to the new millennium. Starting with a young school dropout coerced into becoming … Continue reading SIFA 2017: Art Studio by Nine Years Theatre (Preview)

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SIFA 2017: Becoming Graphic by Sonny Liew and Edith Podesta (Preview)

Nabbing the coveted Singapore Literature Prize, as well as THREE Eisner Awards for his graphic novel The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, artist Sonny Liew is set to take on a completely new medium this SIFA: the theatre. Collaborating with award winning theatremaker Edith Podesta, Liew will be presenting an all new graphic novel-meets performance piece in the form of Becoming Graphic. Springboarding off the superhero genre, Becoming Graphic will … Continue reading SIFA 2017: Becoming Graphic by Sonny Liew and Edith Podesta (Preview)

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SIFA 2017: Dragonflies by Pangdemonium (Preview)

Set in the not so distant future of 2021, where climate change is causing natural disasters all over the world and the political climate is a wreck, with the collapse of the Western world and religious extremism at its peak, the United Kingdom (and other nation), is clamping down on immigration. At the heart of the play is Leslie Chen, whose world is quite literally … Continue reading SIFA 2017: Dragonflies by Pangdemonium (Preview)

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SIFA 2017: Of Fathers, Daughters and Families (Open Homes Week 1 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)

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SIFA 2017: Open Homes, Open Hearts (Preview)

Do you ever wake up in the morning and wonder what life must be like on the other side of Singapore? Personally, as Easties, we’ve always been curious how different life might be for a person living in the North or (god forbid) the wild West. But this SIFA, we’re willing to step beyond the confines and comfort of our own home to find the … Continue reading SIFA 2017: Open Homes, Open Hearts (Preview)

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