Category: Singapore

Arts, festival, Review, Singapore

★★★★☆ Review: Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About A Terrible Monster by Manual Cinema

Demystifying the sorcery of cinema while capturing the magic of puppetry and animation. In a world where kids are almost constantly glued to the screen – how does one keep them entertained in the theatre? By bringing the screen to the stage of course. That is the modus operandi of American company Manual Cinema, who creates films live onstage for their audiences, and in an … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About A Terrible Monster by Manual Cinema

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Arts, festival, Review, Singapore

★★★★☆ Review: SUARA / Oro Rua by Safuan Johari and Eddie Elliott

Unearthing the voices of a distant past. Safuan Johari is a musician and composer from Singapore. Eddie Elliott is a dancer and choreographer from New Zealand. While the two artists’ practices seem rather distant, there is a link that makes them surprisingly good collaborators with each other – their shared respect for their own cultural inheritance, and a keen interest in the land we walk … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: SUARA / Oro Rua by Safuan Johari and Eddie Elliott

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Arts, festival, Review, Singapore

★★★★☆ Review: The Romeo by Trajal Harrell

Drawing from historical form to imagine a new canon of dance, including everybody and any body. Conceptualised by Trajal Harrell, it’s hard to pin down exactly what The Romeo is. While ostensibly categorised as a dance, The Romeo is also a work that is completely fictional, and expanding beyond mere choreography to imagine a history and legacy. In the space of the theatre where The … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: The Romeo by Trajal Harrell

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Arts, musical, Sands Theatre, Singapore

Smash-hit retelling of Tudor history ‘SIX The Musical’ makes its Singaporean Premiere this November

Kenny Wax, Wendy and Andy Barnes, and George Stiles in association with Base Entertainment Asia are thrilled to announce the Singapore premiere of SIX the Musical at Sands Theatre, Marina Bay Sands this November as the musical continues on its unstoppable journey to captivate audiences around the globe with its innovative and empowering take on history. Since its first staging in 2017, SIX has become a cultural phenomenon, redefining the boundaries of musical theatre and engaging … Continue reading Smash-hit retelling of Tudor history ‘SIX The Musical’ makes its Singaporean Premiere this November

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Interview, Music, Singapore

Drop The Beat: Swedish electronic superstars GALANTIS play Zouk for one night only this June

Grammy Award winning, Swedish electronic superstar GALANTIS, in partnership with Collective Minds, brings his legendary, hi-octane live show to Zouk, Singapore on Thursday, 6th June for one night only for an unmissable experience. Galantis is the brainchild of Christian Karlsson, has undeniably stormed the dance music world, amassing an impressive over 7.3 billion streams and 1.9 billion video views. His pioneering debut album “Pharmacy” catapulted him to the … Continue reading Drop The Beat: Swedish electronic superstars GALANTIS play Zouk for one night only this June

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

★★★★☆ Review: Tartuffe – The Imposter by Wild Rice (2024)

Chilling as ever, as Wild Rice revisits how an insidious con can lead to total ruin. There are many sayings about religion, but one that continues to ring true even today is how it remains the last refuge of a scoundrel. Nowhere is that seen more clearly than in Wild Rice’s adaptation of French playwright Molière’s satirical play Tartuffe, which examines how in the hands … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: Tartuffe – The Imposter by Wild Rice (2024)

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Arts, festival, Review, Singapore

★★★★☆ Review: Moby Dick by Plexus Polaire (SIFA 2024)

Glimmers of terrible beauty amidst a savage, age-old battle of man versus nature. The beauty of a novel like Moby Dick has always lain in how open to interpretation it is, where everything from the tumult of the sea, to the conversations between crewmates, to the chase for the elusive white whale itself becomes a metaphor for whatever one might be going through in life … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: Moby Dick by Plexus Polaire (SIFA 2024)

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Arts, Review, Singapore, SRT, Theatre

★★★★☆ Review: Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream by Singapore Theatre Company and Indian Ink

Powerful theatrical reflection on what it means to lead a life well-lived. What lies after death? Much like a majority of religions, Zoroastrians believe in the concept of souls laid to rest in Paradise or Hell, depending on how good or evil one was in life. But to even get to that point requires a rather unique methodology of releasing the spirit from a corpse … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream by Singapore Theatre Company and Indian Ink

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Arts, festival, Interview, Preview, Singapore

SIFA 2024: An Interview with director Haresh Sharma and playwright Chong Tze Chien on Forster-inspired ‘The Prose and the Passion’

“Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.” Such was the way English author E.M. Forster wrote of the importance of using both head and heart in Howard’s End, to connect both critical thought and deep emotion that we can achieve the full potential of humanity itself. Inspired by this quote and … Continue reading SIFA 2024: An Interview with director Haresh Sharma and playwright Chong Tze Chien on Forster-inspired ‘The Prose and the Passion’

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Arts, festival, Interview, Preview, Singapore

SIFA 2024: An Interview with Singapore experimental band The Observatory on exploring darkness and the underground in ‘REFUGE’

The Observatory are not your ordinary band. Going beyond making music alone, the local Singaporean band has been closely involved in art beyond entertainment for two decades, always ready to speak truth to power and constantly using their sound to amplify their thoughts and feelings about social issues, even expanding into the realm of visual art in 2022’s REFUSE at the Singapore Art Museum which … Continue reading SIFA 2024: An Interview with Singapore experimental band The Observatory on exploring darkness and the underground in ‘REFUGE’

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