Huayi 2020: An Interview with Goh Boon Teck, Director and Playwright of Toy Factory’s 7 Sages of the Bamboo Grove
In Chinese history, there existed a group of seven Chinese scholars, writers, and musicians of the third century CE. As the Jin dynasty came into being, the ‘Sages’ found their […]
Huayi 2020: An Interview with Star Pianist Tony Yike Yang
At the tender age of 16, Chinese-Canadian pianist Tony Yike Yang took the music world by storm when he became the youngest-ever laureate at the prestigious 2015 Chopin International Piano […]
The Banter: An Interview with Actor Ghafir Akbar In Kuala Lumpur
KUALA LUMPUR – Over the last five years, Ghafir Akbar has slowly but surely been making a name for himself in the Singapore theatre scene. Besides having garnered critical acclaim and […]
Review: No Place by Square One Collective (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)
★★★☆☆ (Performance attended 15/1/19) Deciding one’s fate via a series of absurd games. What does the future look like? According to New York-based Square One Collective, a lot worse. Written […]
Review: Mak-Mak Menari by Bhumi Collective (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)
★★★★☆ (Performance attended 17/1/19) Poignant docu-drama about sisterhood over a lifelong passion for Malay dance. In the performing arts world, dancers are notorious for having a short career span, with […]
Review: Kebaya Homies by The Necessary Stage (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)
★★★★☆ (Performance attended 15/1/19) Irreverent trip down TNS’ past works featuring two of their best collaborators. The Necessary Stage’s (TNS) most well-known works aren’t always something you’d readily call ‘fun’, […]
Review: The Utama Spaceship by Spacebar Theatre (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)
★★★☆☆ (Performance attended 14/1/19) Likeable performance about the making of legends gets a little lost in space. As a fiercely competitive nation, Singapore has shown time and time again that […]
Review: ATARA – For you, who has not yet found the one by Reut Shemesh (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)
★★★☆☆ (Performance attended 14/1/19) Finding the means to be who you are in a society that suppresses one’s identity. With some of her closest family members converting to Orthodox Hasidic Judaism […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020: An Interview with Soultari Amin Farid and Grace Lee-Khoo (Mak-Mak Menari)
Who exactly are the Mak-Mak Menari and why should we care about Bhumi Collective’s latest show of the same name? In short, the 23-member group of veteran Malay dancers have […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020: An Interview with Square One Collective (No Place)
In the not so distant future of 2075, the world is at its end. Three people – a political exile, a former radical and a climate refugee go in search […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020: An Interview with Reut Shemesh (ATARA – For you, who has not yet found the one)
Female, Jewish and an Israeli living in Germany, Reut Shemesh’s background is certainly one that offers up a myriad of perspectives by which to see the world. At the 2020 […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020: An Interview with Spacebar Theatre (The Utama Spaceship)
If there’s one thing Singapore theatre seems to lack, it’s more companies willing to go down the irreverent route, having fun with their craft and taking theatre to its extremes. […]
Review: The Shadow Curriculum by Jelaine Ng (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)
★☆☆☆☆ (Performance attended 11/1/20, 2pm) Attempt to satirise motivational speakers unclear in its motives and falls flat. In Singapore’s results-oriented society, success is everything. So it comes as no surprise […]
Review: Beside Ourselves by .gif (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)
★★☆☆☆ (Performance attended 10/1/20) Great songs from .gif stitched together with a premature theatre production unable to fully capture the theme of displacement with its form. While primarily known as […]
Review: Secretive Thing 215 by Secretive Thing (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)
★★★★☆ (Performance attended 9/1/20) Intricate, introspective experience with only our phones and a mysterious communicator. Going in to a performance of a secretive nature, knowing absolutely nothing about what to […]
Review: Contemplating Kopitiam and Kampong Wa’Hassan by Oliver Chong and NAFA (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)
★★★☆☆ (Performance attended 9/1/20) Alfian Sa’at meets Kuo Pao Kun meets the Millennials in this well-directed but conceptually disjointed reflection on belonging and identity. There’s something incredibly audacious about splicing […]
