This section covers the Singapore Arts and Theatre Scene. This very vibrant scene is amazing and we will update the latest happenings and giveaways. Stay Tuned.
SIFA 2017 may be over, but one of our favourite events from this year’s lineup is making a return much sooner than you might think – Jeffrey Tan’s Open Homes! Open Homes makes a spectacular return this September as part of the National Arts Councils Silver Arts, an arts festival for seniors that shows that art is for all, regardless of age. This edition of Open Homes … Continue reading Preview: Open Homes @ SilverArts!
Based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic novel Crime and Punishment, David Gaitan’s Leakage(s) and Anticoagulants is a biting psychological exploration on rational egotism and morality. A young intellectual, Raskolnikov (Tan Weiying), steals from and murders an unscrupulous old pawnbroker and due to a series of coincidences, manages to escape undetected. To Raskolnikov, this crime is motivated not by anything quite as plebeian as greed or desperation, … Continue reading Review: Leakage(s) and Anticoagulants by ITI
One thing that can be said about SIFA Festival Director Ong Keng Sen: whenever he attempts to create a new work, he always aims high and goes all the way, resulting at the very least in an unforgettable theatrical spectacle. With Trojan Women, Ong breathes new life into a centuries old Korean art form by applying it to an ancient Greek play. Based off Euripedes’ … Continue reading SIFA 2017: Trojan Women by Ong Keng Sen and the National Theater of Korea (Review)
Earlier this year during the annual M1 Fringe Festival, Singaporean artist Ming Poon was thrust into the spotlight when his work Undressing Room was removed from the lineup due to the sensitive nature of the work. Undressing Room felt like the perfect fit for this year’s theme of Art and Skin. After all, one would literally bare all during the work itself, undressing the artist from top to toe and … Continue reading Naked and Unafraid: Stripping Down Ming Poon’s Controversial Undressing Room
This September, get ready for a truly unique theatrical experience with Hot Pot Talk: Theatre and the Arts. Conceptualized by Chong Gua Kee, and facilitated by arts practitioners Chang Ting Wei, Adib Kosnan and Shaiful Risan, Hot Pot Talk takes the form of interactive theatre and seeks to bridge the gap between arts practitioners and everyday, non-theatre going folk. In Hot Pot Talk, worlds will collide as artists meet … Continue reading Preview: Hot Pot Talk – Theatre and the Arts
South African choreographer Robyn Orlin is known in her home country as ‘a permanent irritation’. The incredibly inventive Johannesburg-born artist has constantly pushed boundaries and bent genres in her multimedia dance work, often favourably compared to the idea of ‘photo collages’, or colourful visual masterpieces that carefully and certainly uniquely address some of the most difficult and complex issues that surround her country’s history and … Continue reading SIFA 2017: And So You See… Our Honourable Blue Sky And Ever Enduring Sun… Can Only Be Consumed Slice By Slice… By Robyn Orlin (Review)
After the marvel that was Sandaime Richard in last year’s edition of SIFA, Ong Keng Sen rounds off his stint as Festival Director with one final hurrah in the form of Trojan Women, a contemporary Asian musical combining K-pop and the Korean traditional genre of musical storytelling – pansori. Taking Seoul by storm at the end of 2016, Trojan Women at SIFA will mark the work’s premiere outside of Korea, and … Continue reading SIFA 2017: Trojan Women by Ong Keng Sen and the National Theater of Korea (Preview)
“There must be poetry in what is horrible.” This September, the Intercultural Theatre Institute presents the Singapore premiere of Mexican playwright David Gaitán’s Leakage(s) and Anticoagulants in the graduating batch’s second show of 2017. Itself an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic novel Crime and Punishment, the darkly comic Leakage(s) and Anticoagulants takes audiences down a dark journey into the mind of a murderer. Raskolnikov has just killed an old woman, … Continue reading Preview: Leakage(s) and Anticoagulants by ITI
Glasgow-based Singaporean physical theatre master Ramesh Meyyappan makes a hotly anticipated return to the local theatre scene this October with his latest work: Off Kilter. Off Kilter follows Joe Kilter, hiding away in his own happy routine and preferring anonymity over fame. But as a change knocks his routine completely off track (and his house sideways), Joe Kilter’s life becomes, quite frankly, off kilter. As he closes … Continue reading Preview: Off Kilter by Theatreworks (+Interview with Ramesh Meyyappan!)
How will we take our smartphone addicted culture to new heights in the future? Emerging theatre maker Khairul Kamsani brings back his 2014 speculative play Human+ with a new cast, a new script and a new venue. Unlike what you might come to expect of a piece about technology and the future, Human+ is a stripped down, minimalist piece that is reliant almost completely on its actors to draw … Continue reading Review: Human+ by Khairul Kamsani
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