The Best Singapore Has To Offer.
Musical theatre fans, you’re in luck this September, as performers Matheus Ting and Valerie Choo produce and star in an all new, one day only musical theatre revue! The LaSalle musical theatre graduates have come a long way since appearing on the local theatre and tv scene, and it’s always heartening to see young up and coming local talent strike it out on their own … Continue reading Preview: On Display – A Musical Cabaret
How can one bear to remember a traumatic memory, much less re-create it? Directed by Kuo Jian Hong, Blank Run is The Theatre Practice’s attempt at doing just that, and uses the memory of a sexual assault as their starting point for their exploration of the deep imprint it leaves on its victims. At the centre of Blank Run is performer Gloria Ang, who also came up with the … Continue reading Review: Blank Run by The Theatre Practice
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)
One of the strangest things about the 21st century is how comfortable we are simply calling for a ride in a stranger’s car through apps like Uber. After all, our parents always told us never to talk to strangers, let alone get into their cars. Which is why Ryde has such an interesting, believable premise for a horror/thriller film. What if your driver turned out to be … Continue reading Review: RYDE dir. Brian Visciglia
The annual Singapore Night Festival turns TEN this August and with it comes an all new edition that’s bigger and better than ever! Whether you’re completely new to Singapore’s biggest outdoor performing arts festival, or have already forged countless magical memories over the past decade, expect to be dazzled and delighted by the many installations and performance art all around the Bras Basah.Bugis precinct this … Continue reading Preview: Singapore Night Festival 2017 (Part 1)
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)
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)
Based off a novel by Hong Kong writer Wong Bik Wan, Taiwanese theatre company approaching Theatre presents The Seven Silences: Anger, focusing on the lives of a group of downtrodden members from the lower depths of society as they live out their horrifying, unimaginably painful lives from day to day. The Seven Silences: Anger is a dark, gritty work that scratches at audience members’ skin with its unabashed, … Continue reading Review: The Seven Silences – Anger by approaching Theatre (M1 Chinese Theatre Festival 2017)
Daniel Boey is probably best known to the current generation as the resident bitch on Asia’s Next Top Model. But as his second book proudly proclaims in its multi-layered title: Behind Every *itch Is A Backstory, and behind this bitch, is one hell of an itch. The Godfather of Singapore fashion shares a hilarious, deeply personal memoir about his personal experiences growing up with sensitive skin and rashes, … Continue reading Behind Every *itch is a Backstory: Daniel Boey scratches at old wounds in his new book
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)
